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Graduate Education: Investing
in California's Future |
California's future strength depends on investing
now in graduate education. California's economy is increasingly
dependent on discovery, but California has been underinvesting in
graduate education, the key training ground for the people who create
those discoveries. These graduates become leaders in all walks of
life, in turn creating jobs and opportunities for many other people.
California also needs more graduate degree holders
because the state's undergraduates need the new faculty that graduate
education will produce in the coming decade. The enrollment increases
and retirements anticipated in California's institutions of higher
education will require hiring 40,000 new faculty by 2010. By 2010,
UC will need an additional $215 million annually to provide the
support needed to add 11,000 graduate students and be competitive
for the best students.
Innovation
and Prosperity at Risk: Investing in Graduate Education to Sustain
California's Future - Commission on the Growth and Support of
Graduate Education (Sep. 2001)
UC Regents' agenda item on the 2001 commission report (attachments)
Making Discovery Work - 1999 report on UC graduate education
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