Assemblyman Ira Ruskin plans to host three community meetings in the coming weeks to gather residents' feedback on an ongoing review of California's 50-year-old Master Plan for Higher Education.

Ruskin will hold meetings in Redwood City, Palo Alto and Los Altos to update constituents on the master plan, spokeswoman Karen Zamel said.

The master plan, approved by the Legislature in 1960, established a framework for the University of California, California State University and community college systems, including a pledge that every eligible student would have a place in one of the systems.

An Assembly committee co-chaired by Ruskin, D-Redwood City, is reviewing the master plan "to determine what