Commentary: The state’s three collegiate systems – the University of California, California State University and more than 100 locally managed community colleges – remain more competitive than cooperative. 📝 DanCALmatters
UC would be the state’s premier research institution while providing high-intensity undergraduate and graduate educations, with degrees up to doctorates. CSU would educate teachers, engineers and other professionals and offer both baccalaureate and master’s degrees. Community colleges would provide two-year associate degrees, prepare students for transfer to four-year schools and also offer job-oriented, sub-professional training.
Demands from students that outstripped supply and budgetary pressures have eroded the demarcation lines. Community colleges have begun offering some limited baccalaureate degrees, encountering stiff opposition from the state university system, while state universities have sought, with some success, to award doctorates, thereby encroaching on UC’s jealously guarded turf.
Virtually every legislative session is marked by at least one conflict over competing ambitions of the three levels. One current measure,, which has passed the Assembly and is pending in the Senate, would give CSU broad new authority to award doctorates. Meanwhile, there has been constant friction over the transfer of credits from one level to another, with community college graduatesAlthough there’s an official goal of boosting the number of community college students transferring to four-year schools from 89,000 to more than 120,000 by 2022, a year later fewer than 100,000 were making the transition,“Of the students enrolled in a community college in California who said they wanted to transfer to a four-year university, an average of 9.
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