Preface

The Compendium was first prepared in 1993-94, under the auspices of the Academic Planning Council (APC). The APC Subcommittee for Expediting Systemwide Review Processes brought together and formalized a variety of systemwide review processes and, to the extent possible within the established review framework, instituted changes to increase efficiency without reducing effectiveness. Subcommittee members strove to conform to, rather than change, existing rules, regulations, and policies. The APC Subcommittee adopted practices such as: conducting concurrent reviews; directly distributing proposals to reviewing agencies; increasing accountability of reviewing agencies; assigning a coordinator for multiple reviewing agencies; providing feedback on campuses’ preliminary plans; requiring pre-approvals; separating extraordinary cases from routine handling; reducing reporting; and leveraging electronic communications. In addition to streamlining established systemwide review processes, the Compendium formalized other review processes, most notably those for transfer, consolidation, disestablishment, and discontinuance actions.

In 1997-98, APC established the APC Ad Hoc Compendium Review Subcommittee to learn how the campuses and the system-level office had received the Compendium. This effort addressed problems identified in the preceding years and improved efficiencies without reducing the effectiveness of the document. The most significant changes included: elimination of systemwide review and approval processes for actions involving undergraduate degree programs, departments, and organized research units (ORUs); simplification of the Five-Year Plans (renamed the “Five-Year Perspectives”); and clarification of “simple” name changes for graduate degree programs and multi-campus research units (MRUs).

The 2009-10 review paid renewed attention to large academic planning issues (new Schools and Five-Year Planning Perspective) and budget issues. This focus arose from the Senate’s review of four proposals for new schools during 2007-08 (public health and nursing at UC Davis as well as public policy and medicine at UC Riverside). Another theme in this review was reinvigoration—and renaming—of the Five-Year Planning Perspective. A 14-member task force of faculty, Senate Directors, Senate staff, campus administrators, and system-level administrators undertook the most recent review. The group acknowledged processes in the Compendium that have worked well over the past ten years, including rigorous reviews of proposed new graduate programs. The review protocol developed by the Coordinating Committee on Graduate Affairs for this purpose was formalized in this edition of the Compendium.

2014 revisions to the Compendium include requiring biennial instead of annual submission of Five-Year Planning Perspectives and eliminating research unit reporting in the Perspectives; clarifying when changes to undergraduate programs require system- level review; eliminating references to the California Postsecondary Education Commission which was defunded in 2011; modifying the trigger for Joint Graduate Board review of joint degree programs; and clarifying and updating the Research sections.

Committees Responsible for Compendium Preparation and Revision

1993-94 APC Subcommittee for Expediting Systemwide Review Processes

  • Chair:  Aimée Dorr, UCLA, CCGA Chair
  • Arnold Binder, UCI, Academic Council Chair
  • Karen Merritt, UCOP, Director, Academic Planning and Program Review
  • Daniel Simmons, UCD, Academic Council Vice Chair
  • Mohan Sitlani, UCOP, Coordinator, Program Review
  • Neil Smelser, UCB, Special Adviser to the UC Office of the President

1997-98 APC Ad Hoc Compendium Review Subcommittee

  • Chair: Aimée Dorr, UCLA, Academic Council Vice Chair
  • Carroll Cross, UCD, UCORP Chair
  • Michael Hanemann, UCB, CCGA Chair
  • Rulon Linford, UCOP, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Laboratory Programs
  • Janice Plastino, UCI, UCEP Chair
  • Dwight Read, UCLA, University Committee on Planning and Budget Vice Chair
  • Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, UCOP, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives
  • Julius Zelmanowitz, UCSB, Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Personnel

1997-98 Subcommittee of Staff Involved in System-Level Reviews

  • Chair:  Aimée Dorr, UCLA, Academic Council Vice Chair
  • Jennifer Lynch, UCOP, Office of Research Assistant Analyst
  • Carol McClain, UCOP, Director of Multicampus Research Planning and Programs
  • Karen Merritt, UCOP, Director of Academic Program Review
  • Mohan Sitlani, UCOP, Principal Policy Analyst for Academic Initiatives
  • Louisa Tapley-Van Pelt, Academic Senate Analyst
  • Jeannene Whalen, UC Academic Senate, CCGA Analyst

2009-10 Compendium Task Force

  • Chair: Anthony Norman, UCR Divisional Chair
  • Joseph Bristow, UCB Member/UCLA
  • Carol Copperud, UCOP, retired
  • Sellyna Ehlers, UCR, Senate Executive Director
  • Alison Galloway, UCSC, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  • Todd Giedt, UCOP, Senate Associate Director
  • Michael Goldstein, UCLA, Divisional Chair
  • Kimberly Hammond, UCORP, Member/UCR
  • Mary-Beth Harhen, UCSC, Senate Executive Director
  • Suzanne Klausner and Hilary Baxter, UCOP, Academic Affairs
  • Stephen McLean, UCEP, Member/UCS
  • Joel Michaelsen, UCSB, Divisional Chair
  • Ken Rose, CCGA, Member/UCSB
  • Clare Sheridan and Eric Zarate, UCOP, Senate Senior Committee Analysts

2012-13 Academic Planning Council

  • Chair: Aimée Dorr, UC Provost and Executive Vice President
  • Vice Chair:  Robert Powell, Academic Council, Chair
  • Susan Carlson, UCOP, Vice Provost – Academic Personnel
  • Joseph Childers, UCR, Graduate Dean
  • Robin Garrell, UCLA, Graduate Dean
  • Harry W. Green, UCAP, Chair
  • Ralph J. Hexter, UCD, Provost and EVC
  • William Jacob, Academic Council, Vice Chair
  • Michael Kleeman, UCORP, Chair
  • Joseph Konopelski, UCSC, Division Chair
  • Jane Fiori Lawrence, UCM, Undergraduate Dean
  • Christina Maslach, UCB, Division Chair
  • Meredith Michaels, UCI, VCPB
  • Jean-Bernard Minster, UCPB, Chair
  • Ruth Mulnard, CCGA, Chair
  • Debora Obley, UCOP, Associate Vice President – Budget Operations
  • Barbara Sawrey, UCSD, Undergraduate Dean
  • John Yoder, UCEP, Chair

2013-14 Academic Planning Council

  • Chair: Aimée Dorr, UC Provost and Executive Vice President
  • Vice Chair: William Jacob, Academic Council, Chair
  • Susan Carlson, UCOP, Vice Provost – Academic Personnel
  • Robert Clare, UCORP, Chair
  • Alison Galloway, UCSC, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
  • Robin Garrell, UCLA, Graduate Dean
  • Mary Gilly, Academic Council, Vice Chair
  • Harry W. Green, UCAP, Chair
  • Ralph J. Hexter, UCD, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
  • Joseph Konopelski, UCSC, Division Chair
  • Tim Labor, UCEP, Chair
  • Jane Fiori Lawrence, UCM, Undergraduate Dean
  • Donald Mastronarde, CCGA, Chair
  • Meredith Michaels, UCI, Vice Chancellor for Planning and Budget
  • Debora Obley, UCOP, Associate Vice President – Budget Operations
  • Janice Reiff, UCLA, Division Chair
  • Barbara Sawrey, UCSD, Undergraduate Dean
  • Donald Senear, UCPB, Chair