System Strategic Planning

Reading Resources

Expected Readings

We hope that members of the Steering Committee will make a priority of reviewing this set of background readings.

• California 2025: Taking on the Future

• A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education (.pdf). A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (Pre-publication copy, Sept. 2006)

• Cracks in the Education Pipeline: A Business Leader’s Guide to Higher Education Reform (2005) (.pdf) Committee for Economic Development.

• Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education. Select: State Reports (California, 2006). The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.

• Is Our Students Learning? Kevin Carey, Washington Monthly (September 2006)

• Return on Investment, Campaign for College Opportunity, Fast Facts (2005)

Additional Readings

These are recommended to members of the Steering Committee, if they have the time to devote to reviewing them.

• Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy, "Rules of the Game: How State Policy Creates Barriers to Degree Completion and Impedes Student Success in the California Community Colleges" (February 2007)

• Association of American Colleges and Universities
  LEAP Initiative and Resources (Panelist Debra Humphreys)

• Can California Import Enough College Graduates to Meet Workforce Needs?   Hans P. Johnson and Deborah Reed

• The Role of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities in the CSU, Provosts' Statement and Recommendations (.pdf, 1.5MB)

• Report of the Board of Trustees'Ad Hoc Committee on Governance, Collegiality, and Responsibility in the California State University (.pdf, 21k)

• Shared Governance Reconsidered: Improving Decision-Making in the California State University
  March 2001 (.pdf, 244k)

• Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities
  (.pdf, 49K)

• The Academic Senate, CSU has produced a number of valuable reports on topics of substantial interest for CSU strategic planning. Interested readers are encouraged to access and review these reports by using the following link: Academic Senate Reports

• Potential Changes to GE-Breadth for Consideration by the Steering Committee and Campuses Involved in the Access to Excellence Planning Process (.doc, 42K)

• Executive Order: 595 (.doc, 42K)

• College Learning for the New Global Century (Excerpt) (.pdf, 2.8MB)
  Full version of Report available: Click Here (.pdf, 5.1MB)
  Executive Summary (.pdf, 1.5MB)

• The Place of Graduate Education in the CSU (PDF, 92K)

• Role of Scholarly Research and Creative Activities in the CSU (Draft) (.pdf, 132K)
  Talking Points Submitted for Discussion at Academic Council – November 30, 2006

• 147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability
  (Foreword and Preface) (PDF, 52K)

• Measuring Up 2006: The National Report Card on Higher Education National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

• Variations on a Theme: Higher Education Performance in California by Region and Race (Colleen Moore and Nancy Shulock), Policy Issue Report (June 2005), Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.

• American Higher Education: How Does it Measure Up for the 21st Century? National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (May 2006), James B. Hunt and Thomas J. Tierney

• Assessing College-Level Learning, Margaret A. Miller, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education Policy Alert (May 2006)

• Measuring Up Internationally: Developing Skills and Knowledge for the Global Knowledge Economy, Alan Wagner, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education (September 2006)

• Greater Expectations: A new Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College (200?) AASCU.

• A New Core Curriculum for All, Thinking K-16: A Publication of the Educational Trust, 7: Issue 7 (Winter 2003)

• Weathering the Double Whammy: How Governing Boards Can Negotiate a Volatile Economy and Shifting Enrollments (.PDF), Jane Wellman, Working Paper for the AGB National Conference on Trusteeship (2003)

• Rethinking Graduate Education in the CSU: Meeting the Needs of the People of California for Graduate Education in the 21st Century (2004), ASCSU Task Force on Graduate and Postbaccalaureate Education in the CSU

Background Readings

The following materials or links refer to System Strategic Planning in the CSU.

• Evaluation of Achievements Under Cornerstones (PDF)

• Board of Trustees adopted resolution (PDF)

• The Board of Trustees September 2006 Agenda item, comprising a description of the strategic planning to be undertaken and including the referenced attachments, is available for download (PDF).

• The Cornerstones report may be accessed through its website. Click here.

• The Cornerstones Implementation Plan, adopted in 1999, provided the yardstick against which the report concerning CSU accomplishments under Cornerstones was developed.

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