Economic Institute Senior Director
California Higher Education
California Higher Education
The Master Plan for Higher Education in California, produced in 1960, provided a forward-looking strategy for handling the challenges then facing the state. Today, California is at another critical juncture with respect to higher education, particularly in terms of workforce skills and the state's budget. The Master Plan was a visionary document for its time, but must be updated to reflect the changed economic, demographic and financial environment of the current century. California’s economic future will depend on the outcome.
Higher Education photo courtesy of the University of California: Students in Lecture Hall created by Erik Jepsen, UC San Diego Publications
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UC's Entrepreneurial Impact
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UC Supports Immense, and Growing, Start-Up Culture
Entrepreneurial activity and innovation has been rapidly accelerating across the University of California in recent years, spurring a significant number of jobs, companies and economic activity for the state economy, according to a study released Aug. 17, 2016 by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.
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Entrepreneurs, Startups and Innovation at the University of California
This report examines a broad range of initiatives at the University of California’s ten campuses—plus UC Hastings Law School, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory—that are designed to support entrepreneurial development and startup formation, and through them stimulate economic activity in surrounding regions and communities.
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Reforming California Public Higher Education for the 21st Century
Revisiting the key components of the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education in California is important to closing the education skills gap and ensuring equity, opportunity and California's future prosperity. Moving in the direction outlined in this analysis will put the state on a firm path toward closing the impending workforce skills gap and will provide residents with the increased economic mobility and opportunity that come with higher education.