California’s 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education articulated California’s three public higher education segments, tuition-free education, and a pathway into higher education for anyone with the ability to benefit. However, in today’s more diverse California and predominantly knowledge-based economy, the Master Plan increasingly reinforces inequities between Californians, acting less as a pathway to opportunity and more as a barrier.
It’s time for a radical paradigm shift.
Our white paper proposes a new version for the Master Plan to better leverage higher education as a tool for social and economic mobility. Written in celebration of the UCLA Civil Rights Project’s 25th anniversary, the paper is part of a series envisioning the future of education and civil rights in California.
TODAY, join us at the UCLA Civil Rights Project’s research and policy briefing, A Civil Rights Agenda for California’s Next Quarter Century, where we’ll present this vision at 2:00 p.m. and learn from other leading thinkers in the field. You can join us in person in Sacramento or virtually on Zoom. As we approach the Master Plan’s 65th anniversary, it’s time to convene, collaborate, and chart a new course that reflects the California of today and the potential of tomorrow.
