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MARKET-STATE-BASED PLANNING FOR NATION-STATE
STYLE PROSPERITY: REINVENTING THE HIGHER
EDUCATION “PROMISE” TO CREATE A
“WIN/WIN/WIN” FOR CALIFORNIA
by
Lauren Cooper
__________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION)
August 2009
Copyright 2009 Lauren Cooper
Object Description
| Title | Market-state-based planning for nation-state style prosperity: reinventing the higher "promise" to create a "win/win/win" for California |
| Author | Cooper, Lauren |
| Author email | cooper12@mail.sdsu.edu; toughdad@pacbell.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Planning and Development Studies |
| Document type | Project |
| Degree program | Planning & Development Studies |
| School | School of Policy, Planning, and Development |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-06-03 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2009-07-15 |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Armstrong, Lloyd Myers, Dowell Weber, Stephen L. |
| Abstract | The world has undergone remarkable changes over a relatively short time period. Not all of the changes have been beneficial for the state of California. Beyond global transitions, California is experiencing declining financial status, dramatically changing demographics, and an accelerated need for increased human capacity development. Although these conditions contain significant repercussions, the resulting impacts have not been acknowledged. Of particular concern is that the state will change from a work force comprised of the most highly educated majority to a working-age majority that will be substantially less educated. These conditions cause analysts to predict a major economic disjuncture and a decline in the quality of life for California’s citizens unless intervening strategies are adopted.; There is urgency to increase the education level of a much higher percentage of the state’s population than current paradigms are prepared to support. Under current plans the number of highly skilled workers needed far exceed the number that will be available. This study translates the need into the number of degrees that will be required and estimates that the optimal path will involve increasing public higher education enrollment growth rates to approximately 6% annually rather than the 2.5% supported by current policy.; With the enormity of need for increased enrollment capacity, it is highly unlikely that the state will be capable of providing the access necessary to maintain the historic ratios between the state- and non-state-supported degrees conferred. As a result, it is concluded the 1960 California Master Plan for higher education is broken and will not be capable of supporting future needs. Therefore, the state must reinvent and expand the Master Plan “promise” to enhance California’s competitiveness. A future task will be to design new state/non-state alignments to provide access opportunities and new educational delivery mechanisms. This will require leadership from many entities, from state-level policymakers to the voters and taxpayers. This study recommends that a new strategic plan be developed to ensure that planning paradigms are adapted to meet future needs by redefining future higher education strategies for the state. |
| Keyword | higher education planning; strategic planning; workforce planning; California economics |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | after 1945 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2349 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Cooper, Lauren |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Cooper-3010 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Cooper-3010.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | MARKET-STATE-BASED PLANNING FOR NATION-STATE STYLE PROSPERITY: REINVENTING THE HIGHER EDUCATION “PROMISE” TO CREATE A “WIN/WIN/WIN” FOR CALIFORNIA by Lauren Cooper __________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION) August 2009 Copyright 2009 Lauren Cooper |
