California will need one million more college grads
Blog by Louis Freedberg/California Watch
The challenge for California is how to do more with less. That's the fundamental issue that underlies a Public Policy Institute of California report released today, which projects that in 15 years California will have 1 million fewer college-educated workers than our state's economy will need. To remedy the situation, the report, "Higher Education in California: New Goals for the Master Plan," by PPIC senior fellow Hans Johnson, calls for the UC and CSU to take a significantly higher proportion of California's high school graduates than they are currently admitting. That will mean a major revision of California's famed but now outdated Master Plan for Higher Education. (more...)