UCLA engaged Huron Consulting Group to perform a strategic, operational, and financial assessment of UCLA Extension in partnership with a steering committee that included Extension and campus leadership.
The Classroom Advisory Committee studied, reviewed, and recommended efforts on how to improve and increase existing classrooms and teaching laboratories, including both general assignment and non-general assignment/departmental instructional spaces.
The Committee on the Undergraduate Student Facilities Resource Plan was charged with developing recommendations to respond to the planned growth in undergraduate students over the next three to five years.
The Office of Instructional Development (OID) Academic Review Committee was asked to create a vision for OID that will speak to the 21st century teaching and learning needs of the campus and to consider how best to redefine the current office in order to meet the educational challenges of the coming decades.
The Data Governance Task Force provided recommendations for how institutional governance of data about UCLA faculty, students, and staff should be structured and used.
A working group identified obstacles that are hampering students’ progress towards a bachelor’s degree, with an emphasis on the achievement gap among groups of students, and made recommendations that could have early beneficial impacts on student success.
Chaired by the Hon. Carlos Moreno (Ret.), an independent review team conducted an assessment and presented recommendations to address issues regarding the university’s policies, procedures, and mechanisms for responding to incidents of perceived bias, discrimination, and intolerance involving faculty of color.
The Special Programs Task Force was charged with examining the future reporting structure for Summer Sessions, the International Education Office, UCDC, ROTC, and online education, and was asked to identify, if possible, any overriding principles of management or governance that can help determine how best to organize these efforts in the future.
This proposal recommended restructuring and refocusing the Institute of American Cultures to advance understanding of the new social and cultural realities of America.