Academic Planning
The Academic Planning unit conducts strategic planning, analysis, and assessment for the University of California and advances and promotes policy development and implementation, with particular attention to the following areas:
- Long-range enrollment planning, with the goal of analyzing underlying student demand, workforce needs and other pressures that influence projected enrollments; identifying academic and budgetary issues related to the University's ability to accommodate students over the long term; and building support to help ensure that the University achieves the desired future.
View collection of long-range enrollment planning documents. - Improving undergraduate and graduate education, including student engagement and performance, with the goal of identifying policy, best practice, budgetary or other interventions that can strengthen the campuses' abilities to provide positive, meaningful learning experiences for both undergraduate and graduate students.
- Analyzing academic and institutional quality and accountability issues, with the goal of providing internal and external constituencies with information to make informed judgments about the University's academic performance.
- Analyzing budgetary issues from an academic perspective, with the goal of maintaining focus on long-term agendas in the context of annual budgets.
Academic Planning staff consult with various systemwide administrative and Academic Senate committees as well as with UCOP and campus staff, and with their help:
- Identifies major challenges on the horizon that are likely to affect the University's academic life in the next five to 10 years and analyzes their potential impacts;
- Performs analyses that support the planning activities of the senior academic leadership of the University and develops alternative policy options to support these planning activities;
- Assists systemwide and campus administrators with policy implementation.
Given the unit's future orientation, its agenda changes to reflect emerging issues, such as implementation of state-supported summer instruction and UC's changing role in a global environment.