California’s higher education leaders pledge more cooperation

In a rare gathering, University of California President Janet Napolitano, California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White and California Community Colleges Chancellor Brice W. Harris said they want to break through some of the walls set up by the state’s 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education, which established different roles and student enrollment criteria for each sector. Yet they also said they want to maintain the plan’s basic tenets… Brown, whose father, Pat Brown, helped form the plan as governor, said he wants more imaginative ideas to improve higher education, possibly forming new entities online or elsewhere. He did not offer specifics.

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by Larry Gordon, The Los Angeles Times.

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