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Strategic planning forums let faculty, staff address pending growth issues
By Diane Ainsworth, Public Affairs
25 April 2001
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As one of the steps in responding to Berkeley’s share of the expected tidal wave of new undergraduate students facing the UC system, the newly appointed Strategic Planning Committee met with faculty, staff and students in a series of forums this month to solicit feedback on three growth scenarios. The scenarios under consideration are: California is experiencing an unprecedented growth in college-bound students. As a result, UC has mandated that all campuses in the system grow to accommodate this demand, which has been dubbed Tidal Wave II. Compulsory enrollment growth, compounded by campus space and facilities constraints, as well as the SAFER seismic upgrading program, will challenge the campus’s ability to sustain the quality of its academic programs. Campus planners and administrators will be involved in work to develop a new blueprint for strategic expansion of Berkeley’s academic programs, programmatic emphases and physical growth during the next year. In the next several months, Webster said, the Strategic Planning Committee will circulate a request for proposals to solicit new programmatic thrusts and select one of the scenarios now under consideration to use as a guide for development of the campus. To maintain academic excellence while accommodating approximately 4,000 new students in the next several years and strengthening programmatic goals, the campus is considering three ways of revamping the academic calendar: Webster assured the audience that planners are addressing the need for additional staff. A redesign of the staff compensation system is being drafted as one way to attract more job-seekers to the university. Other considerations are also being addressed as the campus plans for expansion. Some of the issues involve the future of online learning, lifelong learning and continuing education programs; the programmatic mix between the College of Letters and Science and the professional schools; the role, structure and status of interdisciplinary programs; and space availability for existing and new programs.
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