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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ |
AS/SCP/1336 |
COMMITTEE ON
PLANNING AND BUDGET
RESOLUTION ON
ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
TO: THE
ACADEMIC SENATE, SANTA CRUZ DIVISION
PREAMBLE: One of the greatest challenges of the
present campus planning process is to increase graduate enrollments. Increasing
our graduate student population through enhanced enrollment of excellent
graduate students will provide a number of benefits to UCSC. Such an increase
will enhance our stature as a major research university and make it easier to
attract absolutely first class faculty. Additional graduate degrees will meet
an important long-term need of the State of California. As faculty members, we
also recognize the many significant ways in which strong graduate programs
enhance the quality of the educational experience for undergraduates. However,
the fraction of graduate students within UCSC's
current student population is approximately 9%, the lowest such ratio within
the UC system. Given the long lead-time to establish new graduate and
professional programs, it is clear that we cannot improve this ratio
instantaneously. Indeed, the present trajectory of growth in our undergraduate
population suggests that we will need to adjust our ratio of graduate to
undergraduate students even while campus growth slows or ceases in the future.
Consequently, our campus planning process must include the discipline to plan
for our long-term future while simultaneously meeting the needs of our existing
students.
To this end, we move the following resolution:
WHEREAS: UCSC's current student
population contains the lowest percentage of graduate students among the UC
campuses;
WHEREAS: Thriving graduate and
professional programs enhance the stature of a research university and add
significantly to the intellectual environment for all members of the academic
community;
WHEREAS: UCSC's long-term planning
process is occurring at a time of rapid undergraduate enrollment growth, so
that our total student population will soon level off at a total on-campus
enrollment of 15,000 students;
AND WHEREAS: Developing, implementing,
and growing graduate programs will necessarily extend beyond the time that our
enrollments level off;
THEREFORE BE
IT RESOLVED:
THAT UCSC commit itself to
growth in graduate and professional programs, both existing and new, with the
goal of attaining a student population containing at least 15% graduate
students; and
THAT the UCSC Senate and
Administration jointly develop a plan aimed both at establishing this student
population and guiding the annual targets.
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Respectfully Submitted, COMMITTEE ON PLANNING AND BUDGET George Blumenthal, ex
officio Alison Galloway, ex officio Susan Gillman Brent Haddad Paul Koch Jennie McDade Graeme Smith Lynn Westerkamp Bob Meister, Chair |
This resolution has also been endorsed by: GRADUATE COUNCIL
February 7, 2002 |