The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 was developed by a survey team appointed by the Regents of the University of California and the California State Board of Education during the administration of Governor Pat Brown. UC President Clark Kerr was a key figure in its development. The plan set up a coherent system for public postsecondary education which defined specific roles for the already-existing University of California (UC), the state colleges which were joined together by the plan into the State College System of California and later renamed the California State University (CSU), and the junior colleges which were later organized in 1967 into the California Community Colleges (CCC) system.
The statutory framework implementing the plan was signed into law as the Donahoe Higher Education Act (honoring Assemblywoman Dorothy M. Donahoe,[a] one of the plan's foremost advocates) by Brown on April 27, 1960.[4][5][6][7]
- ^ Democratic Digest. Vol. 7–8. Democratic National Committee. 1960.
- ^ "Guide to the California and San José State University Master Plan for Higher Education Records MSS.2009.03.01". Online Archive of California. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ "EDC Title 3 Division 5 Part 40: Donahoe Higher Education Act". California Legislative Information. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ Kerr, Clark (2001). The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Volume 1. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 182. ISBN 9780520223677.
- ^ California Education Code Section 66000 states that "[t]his part shall be known and may be cited as the Donahoe Higher Education Act."
- ^ Plata, Julie (29 April 2017). "The legacy of Dorothy M. Donahoe". Bakersfield.com. TBC Media. Retrieved 1 April 2019. This source incorrectly states that the Donahoe Higher Education Act was signed into state law on April 26, 1960.
- ^ Cal. Stats., 1960 extra. sess., ch. 49, § 1, p. 392.
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