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Report: Key Findings from 2017-2018 Hearings

Keeping the Promise: A review of the Master Plan and California's higher education system

July 2020

Over a two year period, the Select Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education convened five hearings throughout the state including in the Bay Area, Central Valley, and Southern California. The hearings focused on the following topics: an overview and status of higher education, California’s workforce needs, the needs of students, the needs of faculty and staff, and an overview and status of higher education finance.

This report summarizes the testimony from the five hearings and highlights the first two years of the Select Committee’s information gathering phase. The report also includes key findings and policy themes that originated from testimony as well as the Select Committee’s next steps, which will focus on the transfer process.

Read here: Keeping the Promise: A review of the Master Plan and California's higher education system