Conference re-evaluates California Master Plan for Higher Education

By Meghan Hodges

Representatives from California college systems met Saturday to discuss issues surrounding the rising costs of attending higher education institutions in California.

Attendees reviewed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and reinitiated a conversation about the issues associated with higher education since the 1960s, said Iman Sylvain, external affairs vice president of the UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly. Representatives from the University of California system, California State University system and California Community Colleges attended the Sacramento conference.

California’s Master Plan for Higher Education was approved at a meeting between the UC Board of Regents and the State Board of Education in 1959, in an effort to make higher education accessible and affordable for all California residents.

Sylvain said the ideas proposed during the 1959 meetings have since become outdated, leaving current and future students to struggle with the rising educational costs and decreasing diversity.

“The meeting was not so much about making decisions about what can be done to solve these problems,” said University of California Student Association President Kevin Sabo, who spoke at the conference. “Instead, we were starting a conversation to re-imagine the document, which has become disconnected over the generations.”

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[Source]: Daily Bruin