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INVENTORY OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY MASTER PLAN COLLECTION, 1959-2002
CSU 018
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Title: California State University Master Plan Collection,
Dates: 1959-2002
Collection Number: CSU 018
Creator:
California State Department of Education. Master Plan Survey Team.
Extent:
6 boxes
6 linear ft
Repository:
California State University Historical Archives
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Archives & Special Collection
University Library, Room G-145
1000 E. Victoria Street
Carson, California 90747
Phone: (310) 243-3013
URL: http://archives.csudh.edu/
Abstract:
Reports, correspondence, minutes, and other materials relating to the Master Plan for Higher Education in California and
its various revisions and updates. Also includes some CSU campus architectural master planning.
Language: Collection material is in English
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
[Title of item], California State University Master Plan Collection, Courtesy of the Department of Archives and Special Collections.
University Library. California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Materials in this collection were transferred by the Chancellor’s Office, California State University and collected by archives
staff. It is a growing collection.
Processed during 2004-2006 CSU System-wide Archives Processing Project.
The California State University System, formally established in 1960 by the Donahoe Higher Education Act. It is the nation’s
largest university system, with 23 campuses and seven off-campus centers, more than 400,000 students and 42,000 faculty and
staff. The CSU is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California (the others are the University of
California and the California Community College System). Since 1961 more than 2 million alumni have received a bachelor's,
master's, and doctoral (Ph.D. and Ed.D) degrees from the university system. It offers more than 1,800 degree programs in some
240-subject areas.
Today's California State University system is the direct descendant of the California State Normal School (now, San Jose State
University) established by the California Legislature on May 2, 1862. By 1895 there were four State Normal schools. In 1921,
the schools were re-named the State Teacher’s Schools. In 1935 the colleges were re-named the California State Colleges and
were run by the State Department of Education. With the master plan created along with the Donohue Act, the California State
Colleges were placed under control of the CSC Board of Trustees. In 1972 the system was renamed the California State Colleges
and Universities. The term “Colleges” was dropped in 1982.
Responsibility for the California State University is vested in the Board of Trustees, whose members are appointed by the
Governor of the State of California. The Trustees appoint the Chancellor, who is the chief executive officer of the system,
and the Presidents, who are the chief executive officers of their respective campuses. The Academic Senate of the California
State University, made up of elected representatives of the faculty from each campus, recommends academic policy to the Board
of Trustees through the Chancellor. Chancellors of the system include Buell Gallagher (1961-1962); Glenn S. Dumke (1962-1982);
W. Ann Reynolds (1982-1990); Ellis E. McCune [Acting] (1990-1991); Barry Munitz (1991-1998); Charles B. Reed (1998- ).
Timeline of studies relating to the California Master Plan taken from "The History of the California Master Plan for Higher
Education" a project of the center for studies in higher education.
- 1932: State Higher Education in California: Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Recommendations of the Commission of Seven
- 1948: A Report of a Survey of the Needs of California in Higher Education
- 1955: A Restudy of the Needs of California in Higher Education
- 1957: A Study of the Need for Additional Centers of Public Higher Education in California
- 1960: A Master Plan for Higher Education in California, 1960-1975
- 1960: The Donahoe Education Act
- 1966: The Master Plan Five Years Later
- 1972: The California Master Plan for Higher Education in the Seventies and Beyond
- 1973: Report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education
- 1986: The Challenge of Change: A Reassessment of the California Community Colleges
- 1987: The Master Plan Renewed: Unity, Equity, Quality, and Efficiency in California Postsecondary Education
- 1989: California Faces . . . California's Future: Education for Citizenship in a Multicultural Democracy
- 1993: Master Plan in Higher Education in Focus, "Draft Report"
- 2002: The California Master Plan for Education
Correspondence, testimony, news clippings, recommendations, issue papers, legislation, staff reports, agendas and minutes.
Includes “Master Plan for Higher Education in California, 1960-1975,” Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education
(1972-1973); Master Plan for Higher Education Commission (1985-1986); Joint Committee to Develop a Master Plan for Education
- Kindergarten through University (2002); and other committees. Includes statements and reports by Glenn Dumke and Lee Kerschner.
The 1972-1973 Plan includes reports on Asian-Americans, Chicanos and Public Education and Independent Higher Education in
California. Also includes architectural master planning for campuses including Humboldt, CSC Palos Verde/Dominguez Hills,
San Jose, and San Francisco State.
Education -- Latinos
Education -- Asian-Americans
Education, higher
Kerschner, Lee
Dumke, Glenn R.
California State University
California State University, Dominguez Hills
Humboldt State University
San Francisco State University
Master Plan for Higher Education
California State University Reports Collection