FOCUS ON EXCELLENCE A Strategy for Academic Development at the University of California, Irvine 2005-2015 Offi ce of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost • University of California, Irvine • Irvine, California • 2006 Questions and comments should be addressed to the Vice Provost for Academic Planning, Offi ce of Academic Affairs, 535 Administration, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697 or [email protected]. This plan is also available on the Web at http://www.strategicplan.uci.edu. © The Regents of the University of California, 2006. Dear Colleagues: The University of California, Irvine admitted its first class in 1965 following the formal dedication of the campus by President Lyndon Johnson a year earlier. One hundred nineteen faculty members and 1,589 students began their work on a university still very much under construction. Only a third of the central ring of buildings planned by architect William Pereira was complete; Irvine was still six years away from incorporation as a city; and the agrarian history of the region was evident in the neighboring orange groves and the cattle grazing next to the campus. Michael V. Drake Michael R. Gottfredson Chancellor Executive Vice Chancellor Since then, UCI has secured a place among the best public and Provost research universities in the United States through an unparalleled combination of rapid growth in enrollment in the nation dedicated to the distinctive health care needs and an equally impressive increase in the size, quality, of the Latino community. PRIME-LC is being hailed as a and influence of our research and educational programs, model for similar programs within the state and across performing arts, and professional schools. We now have an the country. annual enrollment of 25,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students from California, across the nation With more than 300 specialty physicians and 50 primary and around the world. Our 1,400 faculty members include care doctors, UC Irvine Medical Center is the only Nobel laureates, recipients of the National Medal of Science, university hospital in Orange County and has the only and many members of the most important scholarly, Level I Trauma Center in the county. In 2005, Solucient, a scientific and professional organizations. UCI is a member national ranking service, named the medical center one of of the prestigious Association of American Universities the nation’s top 100 hospitals for the second year in a row, (and is the youngest institution in that group), and more and two years ago the medical center was one of only 78 than 40 of our educational programs are ranked among the hospitals nationally (and the first in Southern California) best in their fields. UCI students have received some of the to receive the prestigious Magnet Designation for nursing most prestigious fellowships in the country, including 21 excellence from the American Nurses Association. The Fulbrights, 23 Goldwater awards, 31 fellowships from the medical center is currently undergoing major renovation National Science Foundation, and five Truman fellowships. and expansion that will result in a brand new university Our alumnae/i include successful and influential people in hospital by 2009, with state-of-the-art teaching and many fields around the world, including four Pulitzer Prize research facilities and expanded support for medical and winners in poetry, fiction and editorial cartooning. surgical treatment. Upon completion of this project, UCI will provide a world-class academic medical center for our In addition to its academic and professional programs on community with a patient-focused healing environment the general campus, UCI also has a growing presence in that also trains practicing physicians for the future. the health sciences. In 2005, the UC Regents approved the creation of a College of Health Sciences at UCI, which Reflecting on these accomplishments on the occasion of includes new programs in public health, pharmaceutical our 40th anniversary, we are proud to be a part of this sciences and nursing science, along with our School of remarkable university and grateful to our founders for their Medicine, which was established at UCI in 1967, and the vision, confidence and determination. Their success sets a University of California, Irvine Medical Center in the high standard as we turn toward the future and imagine city of Orange. The School of Medicine has 550 faculty, what UCI will be on its 50th anniversary in 2015. approximately 400 M.D. students, 600 residents and 120 graduate students. Recently, the School of Medicine also By that time, we will be approaching the end of the rapid instituted PRIME-LC, the first medical education program growth in size that has characterized our campus since its beginning. Over the next decade, the pace of scholarly and professional programs, an enhanced intellectual and and scientific discovery on the campus will continue social community on the campus, and a concerted effort to to accelerate even beyond today’s impressive levels, but extend the influence and visibility of UCI throughout the increases in undergraduate enrollment will be tapering off, state, nation and world. replaced by growth in graduate and professional programs including our new school of law, which was approved by These general objectives, more specific goals covering the UC Regents in November 2006. different aspects of campuswide planning and some strategies for achieving them are described in A Focus The perception of UCI as meaning “Under Construction on Excellence: A Strategy for Academic Development at the Indefinitely” will be more apt than ever as the physical University of California, Irvine, 2005-2015. This plan is infrastructure of the campus expands to support our comprehensive in the connections it establishes among constantly evolving needs in research and teaching. We the various activities that make up a great university, will house well over half of our undergraduates and almost and it is ambitious, as it must be to build on the original all of our graduate and professional students and post- vision and aspirations that made UCI what it is today. It doctoral scholars, and they will create an intellectual and is also clearly within the reach of a university that has social community on campus as stimulating as any in the already accomplished so much in its brief history and UC system. Our many lecture series and artistic exhibits that is bold enough to declare that accomplishment only and performances will attract people from the community the beginning. to our campus, and our place in that community will have expanded to make UCI not just an educational center but UCI cannot reach these goals alone. All great public an even more vital part of the social, cultural and economic research universities depend on a close relationship with life of the whole region. the communities they serve, and over the next decade we will work hard with our partners in the community to Coordinating our pursuit of these ambitious objectives over build on and extend the productive relationship we have the next decade will be a formidable task. The first step enjoyed in the past. We are pleased to provide this plan for in that process was taken in spring 2004 when six groups review and welcome comments and suggestions. You can of faculty, staff and administrators were convened under address your remarks to us in care of the Office of the the auspices of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council and Vice Provost for Academic Planning, University of charged with defining specific campuswide goals associated California, Irvine, 535 Administration, Irvine, CA 92697- with key areas of planning: undergraduate education 1000; or by e-mail at [email protected]. We look and academic breadth, research and graduate programs, forward to hearing from you. campus life, physical facilities, budget, and UCI’s public role. More than 100 people were involved in those initial discussions, including all our deans and vice chancellors; assistant deans and staff from many different academic and administrative units; faculty including the chair and chair- elect of the Academic Senate, chairs of Senate Councils, and members the Senate’s Council on Planning and Budget; Michael V. Drake representatives of the Staff Assembly and the Associated Chancellor Graduate Students; alumnae/i, and emeritae/i faculty. Results of those initial discussions were published on the Web and circulated for formal review. Through this process of discussion and revision, a strong consensus rapidly emerged on campus regarding our principal objectives, Michael R. Gottfredson including continued growth particularly in our graduate Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost contents INTRODUCTION 7 I. Vision: Growth with Excellence 7 II. Strategic Advantages of UCI 9 III. Overview of the Plan 10 IV. Principal Objectives 10 V. The Planning Process 10 VI. Putting the Plan into Practice 11 WHERE WE ARE NOW 15 I. Growing in Number and Distinction 17 II. Undergraduate Education 17 III. Graduate Education 19 IV. New Programs 20 V. Campus Life 21 VI. Campus Housing 22 VII. Library Usage 22 VIII. Intercollegiate Athletics and Campus Recreation 22 IX. Campus Facilities 23 OUR MISSION AS A PUBLIC RESEARCH UNIVERSITY 27 I. Our Origin as a Land Grant University 27 II. The Master Plan for Higher Education in California 29 III. Diversity, Access and Financial Aid 32 IV. The Economic Role of a Public Research University 40 WHERE WE ARE GOING 47 I. Excellence Through Growth 49 II. Requirements for Success 58 III. Specific Goals and Strategies 62 IV. Strengths, Challenges and Opportunities 78 RESOURCES 85 I. Funding Past and Present 85 II. Future Resource Needs 99 Original planning committees 102 INTRODUCTION I. Vision: Growth with Excellence II. Strategic Advantages of UCI III. Overview of the Plan IV. Principal Objectives V. The Planning Process VI. Putting the Plan into Practice INTRODUCTION I. Vision: Growth with Excellence II.