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Framework for the
Future - Developing the next campus LRDP
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Within the University of California system, Long Range
Development Plans (LRDPs) define a building program and a land-use map that
serve as a comprehensive planning framework for capital construction,
infrastructure, and land-use programs. LRDPs are designed to support
the academic goals of individual campuses and to take into account projected
statewide enrollment demand. To support this LRDP planning activity, a
Strategic Futures Committee has been appointed to review the existing
campus academic plans and reports, consult widely across campus, and
recommend a trajectory for UC Santa Cruz for the next fifteen years.
Latest Updates
In order to keep the campus community informed of the long range development
plan processes and the Strategic Futures Committee's progress, periodic updates will be posted to this website.
The following are the most recent communications:
Strategic Futures Committee forwards initial enrollment
recommendation for 2020 (March 19, 2004)
Strategic Futures group defines four areas of work, suggests various
enrollment 'scenarios' (December 19, 2003)
Strategic Futures Committee planning UCSC's academic development
(November 14, 2003)
Campus Organization and Process
The 2005-2020 Framework for the Future process commenced in fall 2003
with the appointment of a Strategic Futures Committee
and a Long Range Development Committee
engaged in parallel efforts. During an initial phase, the Strategic
Futures Committee will examine key principles and programmatic possibilities
related to academic, research, and campus community programs. The LRDP
Committee will prepare working papers on a number of physical planning
topics (e.g., land use and environment; housing and student life;
transportation and circulation; and infrastructure and technology) and test
the
physical implications of alternative enrollment scenarios. Both
committees will evaluate the
physical implications of these principles, programmatic opportunities, and
enrollment scenarios.
At a very broad conceptual level, the SFC will
- articulate the academic rationale and principles associated with
growth;
- identify the factors (e.g., significant research growth, new
professional schools, mix of on- and off-campus programs) that drive
requirements for physical facilities and infrastructure;
- identify significant/emerging academic directions;
- quantify the future capital requirements in detail sufficient to
enable the LRDP committee to define building masses and infrastructure
requirements; and
- articulate the qualities of the built UC Santa Cruz campus that should
be addressed in the LRDP.
A key deliverable for the SFC is an examination of the implications of
potential academic and research program growth for total UC Santa Cruz
enrollments in the year 2020—in particular, a FTE target for on-campus
student enrollments during the traditional fall/winter/spring quarters.
In order to analyze possible campus enrollment and academic program
development trajectories over the next fifteen years, SFC has organized itself
into four subcommittees:
- The first group is drafting a vision statement that will identify
goals and principles to guide the campus' future academic and research
development;
- The second is giving consideration to the implications of California's
population demographics and the University's mandate to provide an
education to all qualified high school graduates, to California's needs in
graduate and professional education, and to the importance of graduate and
professional education to the campus' intellectual vitality;
- The third is reviewing the campus' academic program aspirations and
the facility/space requirements that would enable campus
departments/academic divisions to achieve their goals; and
- The fourth is considering the land use planning implications of new
academic and research opportunities.
The Committee met regularly, interacting
with the LRDP Committee, and consulting as widely as possible to prepare a
reasoned plan for the future.
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