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ATTACHMENT I
PROPOSED ACADEMIC PROGRAMS, ACADEMIC UNITS, AND RESEARCH
UNITS FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR’S LIST THAT SHOULD BE DELETED:
DEGREE PROGRAMS
STATUS
Applied Mathematics B.S..
Applied Mathematics & Stochastic Modeling M.S./Ph.D.
Biology B.A./Education minor
Film & Digital Media Ph.D.
Visual Studies Ph.D.
withdrawn
withdrawn
withdrawn
approved
UCOP approval pending
ORGANIZED RESEARCH
None
COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
None
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ATTACHMENT II
PROPOSED DEGREE PROGRAMS, COLLEGES, SCHOOLS AND RESEARCH
UNITS THAT SHOULD BE ADDED TO PREVIOUS LIST
DEGREE PROGRAMS
STATUS
Computer Game Design M.S.
departmental review
ORGANIZED RESEARCH
None
COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
None
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COMPUTER GAME DESIGN M.S.
Description of and Reasons for Anticipated Action
We envision a MS degree structured similarly to the existing MS in Computer Science
(3-4 required courses plus 5-6 approved electives and masters-level project). However,
the MS in Computer Game Design would have a different core of required classes and a
different list of electives appropriate to its Computer Game Design emphasis. There is
significant interest among potential students in game design degrees at the masters level.
Faculty in Computer Science are regularly asked by potential masters students, who have
heard of our new undergraduate game degree, whether there's a graduate program
available.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The existing CS MS degree is the most similar program on campus. The DANM MS
may also have some similarities; however the MS in Computer Game Design will have a
more technical focus than the DANM program. The MS in Computer Game Design is a
new initiative that is not explicitly discussed in the School of Engineering’s latest
academic plan, however it does follow the plan’s goals of responding to student interests.
Furthermore, the School is committed to increasing its presence and activities in the
Silicon Valley Center and it would be appropriate to offer significant portions of the
proposed degree program in that location.
Resources
The resources required for the Computer Game Design program depend somewhat on its
success. We have plans to hire additional tenure track faculty in the computer game
design major to support our new and extremely popular computer game design major.
We feel that the three new faculty members already planned to support the undergraduate
degree plus an additional senior faculty hire in the area would be sufficient to sustain a
quality program. With the envisioned success of the program, we would need a partial
staff position to serve as the administrator/advisor for the program. Sufficient distance
education rooms both on campus and at the Silicon Valley Center (together with
appropriate Audio-Visual staff and some office space at the Silicon Valley Center) would
be needed to satisfy the remote education needs at the SVC.
Funding
The program would be initiated with state funding and supported by the fees of enrolled
students. Since we anticipate professionals will be interested in many of the courses, fees
from concurrent enrollment will help cover the program’s costs.
Students
Upon implementation we expect about 10 students. At steady state we estimate ~30
students will be in the program, including part-time students working in the valley.
Steady state should be achieved in 2-3 years after implementation. This rapid startup
assumes that we use the CS MS program to incubate the program (where students
initially join the CS program and switch after the Computer Game Design MS is
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approved). Furthermore, some of the students completing our undergraduate game
design major may decide to continue on in the Game Design MS program. There should
be no major effects on other programs, however the enrollments in the CS MS program
might drop slightly as some potential students and resources shift to the Game Design
MS program.
Employment Implications
Computer and video games are growing areas that are attracting an increasing share of
consumers’ entertainment dollars. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2004 that the
computer game industry at $10 billion generates more revenue than Hollywood.
Electronic Arts alone (located in Redwood city) has $3 billion+ in revenues.
Southern Methodist University claims a 95% placement rate for the graduates of their
masters program.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
No other UC campus has a similar program. USC does have a Game Development
master’s program serving the Los Angeles area. In northern California, the Entertainment
Technology Center, based out of Carnegie Mellon University, runs classes at the ETC
West campus in Silicon Valley, but this campus is not associated with a university. The
proposed masters game degree program at UCSC would be the first such masters
program associated with a top-tier research university in Northern California, and one of
only two such programs in the state.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
A proposal could be ready for campus review in Fall 2009 with campus review in 20092010 and off campus review in 2010-2011. This means that the first students would be
accepted into the program in Fall 2011 or Fall 2012. Since the existing CS MS degree
program could house interested students, we anticipate a rapid startup. However the
main bottleneck will be recruiting sufficient talented faculty with the appropriate
expertise.
Current Status
The program is currently under discussion within the department.
Campus Contact Person
Associate Professor Jim Whitehead, Computer Science Department, Baskin Engineering,
ejw@soe.ucsc.edu , (831-459-1227) (FAX: 831-459-4829)
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ATTACHMENT III
REVISED STATEMENTS FOR PRIOR YEAR SUBMITTALS
DEGREE PROGRAMS
Autonomous Systems M.S./Ph.D.
Biomolecular Engineering M.S./Ph.D.
Coastal Policy M.A. (previously M.S.)
Comparative U.S. Studies Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering M.Eng.
(previously Engineering M.Eng.)
Feminist Studies Ph.D.
Jewish Studies B.A.
Latin American & Latino Studies Ph.D.
Mechatronic Engineering B.S.
Planetary Sciences M.S./Ph.D.
Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems M.S.
Software Engineering M.S./Ph.D.
Technology & Information Management M.S./Ph.D.
Visual Art M.F.A.
STATUS
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
departmental review
divisional Senate review
departmental review
COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS
School of Management
departmental review
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AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS M.S./PH.D.
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
The graduate Autonomous Systems (AS) program provides training in dynamical
systems theory and control, coupled with intensive study of their applications in science
and engineering. A new set of engineering courses and their associated labs (e.g.
“Modern and Robust Control, I and II”, “Applied Feedback Control”, “Introduction to
Mechatronics”, and “Adaptive and Optimal Control”) will be provided, in addition to the
needed background courses in dynamical systems theory. The program represents a
broad, interdisciplinary research and education paradigm designed to meet the challenges
of designing and implementing an increasing number of automated and intelligent
systems technologies in the 21st century (e.g., robotic assisted living, planetary rover
technologies, automated drug discovery, crystallography and materials processing). The
current faculty has expertise in state-of-the-art control theory and computational tools,
embedded multisensor technologies, and applications ranging from mobile sensor
networks to large-scale telescopes. All of these contribute to the large potential for future
interdisciplinary, systems theory-based collaborations within the UCSC Baskin School of
Engineering, as well as with the relevant departments in the Division of Physical and
Biological Sciences, and the Division of Social Sciences.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The proposed program will consist of a combination of new courses combined with
appropriate existing courses, mostly from the School of Engineering. Certain new and
existing courses will be cross- listed between departments. Facilities, equipment, faculty
and staff will be shared due to the variety of courses that will comprise the curriculum.
No existing campus programs or units will be discontinued due to this program. The
program is expected to become a graduate group, offering M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, with
an administrative home in the Department of Computer Engineering.
Resources
Existing resources for this program include 2 primary faculty (Dunbar and Elkaim in
CE), and 5 associated faculty (Mantey in CE; Akella, Musacchio and Ross in TIM;
Wiberg (Emeritus) in EE). Faculty additions to the program will result from hiring for the
graduate program, and from normal growth in the School of Engineering. Of most critical
need is the presence of a senior primary faculty member, a top recruitment priority of
Computer Engineering this year. At the planned rate of growth, it is unlikely this
individual will be in place before 2008-9, and so a program proposal is planned for 20089.
Funding
Current sources of funding include divisional support and campus support through
enrollment growth, as well as funds provided through the University Affiliated Research
Center (UARC) in collaboration with NASA Ames. Substantial support for research and
training from federal agencies, private foundations, and industry ties is actively being
pursued.
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Students
In three years, we estimate that a steady-state range of 8-12 graduate students per year
will be enrolled in this program. Students will primarily enroll in the Computer
Engineering graduate program until such a time as a graduate group is formed.
Employment Implications
Graduates of this program will be prepared for careers in several exciting areas of
industry (including aerospace, information systems management, and robotics broadly
applied) as well as for further advancement in academia.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
UC Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, USC, Caltech and
Stanford all offer graduate research in areas of autonomous systems. The UCSC graduate
AS program would be the only one with primary faculty in Computer Engineering and
Applied Math and Statistics Departments, enabling unique perspectives and approaches
to autonomous systems research within California academic institutions. Additionally,
autonomous systems related research within the TIM program will strengthen the role of
UCSC in the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS).
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates:
2007-08 continued planning and consultations
2008-09 proposal for a graduate group or for restructuring existing programs to
accommodate Autonomous Systems graduate curriculum. Formal campus review.
Current Status
This program is currently in the conceptual stage; a formal written proposal does not
exist. Major revision of existing courses in autonomous systems and launching of new
graduate courses (2005-6) and an undergraduate specialization track (2006-7) is
complete.
Campus Contact Person
Richard Hughey, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Engineering;
rph@soe.ucsc.edu; 831.459.2939 (phone); 831.459.4829 (fax).
BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING M.S./Ph.D.
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
Students will pursue advanced study and research in a variety of specializations based on
a new breed of engineering courses and their associated labs, while obtaining a sound
foundation in engineering and the biological sciences. Courses in the Introduction to
nanotechnology. Expected course titles include “Introduction to
Nanotechnology”,“Molecular Devices”, and “Protein Engineering” among others. The
program represents a broad, interdisciplinary research and education paradigm designed
to meet the challenges of the post-genomic era, ushered in by the completion of the
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Human Genome Project and genomes of other model organisms. The driving
technologies will be a blend of the major technological advances of the latter part of the
20th century: computers and biotechnology. UCSC’s leadership in both of these areas, as
well as its location, in close proximity to many of the world’s industrial leaders in
computers and biotechnology, provide a unique opportunity and can serve to position the
UCSC Baskin School of Engineering as a leading center of research and teaching in this
area of critical importance.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The proposed program will consist of a combination of new courses, mostly from the
School of Engineering, combined with appropriate existing courses, mainly from the
Division of Physical and Biological Sciences. Certain new and existing courses will be
cross-listed between departments (for example BIO 210, a course on microarrays, is
taught by an engineering faculty member and will also be listed as BME 230). Facilities,
equipment, faculty and staff will be shared due to the variety of courses that will
comprise the curriculum. No existing campus programs or units will be discontinued due
to this program. The program is highlighted in the School of Engineering’s Long Range
Plan dated December 2001. The plan was met with favorable review at the campus level,
indicating a general agreement with the proposed new programs. Because of the
immense connections between bioinformatics and biomolecular engineering, the program
is planned as an integrated expansion of the biomolecular engineering department’s
graduate program in bioinformatics.
Resources
Existing resources for this program include 4 Engineering faculty members, several
Physical and Biological Sciences faculty teaching relevant background courses; the
courses themselves and the classrooms and laboratories utilized by these courses; as well
as many relevant periodicals and books in the Science and Engineering Library. Ten new
faculty FTE are expected by 2010; 8-10 new graduate courses will be developed; staff (13 FTE) will be needed to coordinate the curriculum and support the faculty, and students;
funds will be needed for teaching assistants (TAs) and reader/tutors to assist with
undergraduate classes; the library may need additional funds for a few new periodicals.
These new resources will be incremental. Resources needed for the first five years: 1-2
new faculty per year; 2-3 new courses the first two years, then 1 new course per year
thereafter; 1 administrative staff right away and 1-2 added as enrollments and available
courses increase; TAs and reader/tutors needed as enrollments grow, gradually increasing
to approximately 20 TA positions and 12 reader/tutor positions; library funds may require
supplementation as new faculty are hired and new courses are developed.
Funding
Major sources of funding include divisional support and campus support through
enrollment growth, as well as funds provided through two School of Engineering
Alterations Projects. The School of Engineering is engaged in strategic planning to best
utilize its resources to allow high priority program development in a manner that will
minimally impact existing program growth. Substantial support is also expected for
research and training from federal agencies, private foundations, and industry ties. At
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department maturity, the 13 state- funded BME faculty are projected to attract
approximately $4.5M in award funding annually. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute
(which funds one of the BME faculty) and large, multi-PI project grants are expected to
earn approximately $4-$5M per year. Based on the breakdown of the current awards to
BME faculty, it is estimated that the $9M will translate to $7M in direct costs and $2M in
indirect. The BME program will also benefit from ties with multi-campus organizations
such as the Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3) and the UC SystemWide Bioengineering Institute of California (a proposed MRU headquartered at UCSD),
both of which support distance- learning and intercampus collaborative education efforts.
Both Institutes are fostering ties with industry to assist in financing their endeavors.
Students
In the year of commencement (projected 2010), 7 PhD and 3 MS students are expected.
At steady state, within 4-5 years, 20 PhD and 10 MS students are expected. The program
may have a slight negative impact on the number of bioinformatics, biology, and
electrical engineering graduate headcounts, however the surging popularity of all of these
disciplines is expected to override any perceived competition between the programs.
Employment Implications
Graduates of this program will be prepared for careers in several exciting areas of
industry (including biomedical biotechnology, environmental bioengineering, and
biomaterials science) as well as for tenure-track and research-level academic positions at
a growing number of prestigious institutions.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, UC San Diego and Stanford offer graduate programs in
Bioengineering or Biomedical Engineering. Only the Berkeley and Stanford campuses
are capable of meeting the needs of the San Francisco Bay Area. These programs have
more of a biomedical/biomechanical slant than the proposed UCSC program, which will
have more of a molecular-level focus.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates:
2006-07 preliminary planning and consultations
2007-08 final planning and consultations
2008-09 formal campus review
2009-10 advertise and admissions
2010-11 first student majors enroll
Current Status
This program is currently in the conceptual stage; a formal written proposal does not
exist.
Campus Contact Person
At this time, the best contact person is Professor Phillip Berman, Chair of the BME Dept;
pwb@soe.ucsc.edu; 831.459.3529 (phone);
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COASTAL POLICY MA
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
This interdisciplinary program will focus on understanding marine science as well as
management, socio-economics, government/law, and communications in order to provide
the leadership needed to develop and implement rational and sustainable ocean policy
and management for the 21st century. The program will offer a core set of courses in the
diverse and relevant disciplines so that all students acquire the fundamental skills
necessary to become effective practitioners, but will also offer more focused courses
tailored to specific career objectives or directions.
While the need exists for such a program, no UC campus has developed a program.
UCSC is home to a large and diverse group of marine science faculty, related research
units including the Institute of Marine Sciences, affiliated scientists working on policyrelated marine issues from a scientific and often policy-oriented perspective, and has
collaborative programs and cooperative agreements with five co-located state and federal
agency programs directly involved in marine or coastal management and policy. And
UCSC is located in the middle of the nation’s largest national marine sanctuary,
providing valuable mentors, internships, and opportunities not found elsewhere. A
program located at Santa Cruz offers both the professional expertise and the research
infrastructure to provide a rich intellectual and practical learning environment for
students.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
Instruction and research in environmental sciences is one of the three areas of emphasis
for present and future initiatives in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences,
along with biomedical/health sciences and technology. The proposed program crosses
disciplinary and divisional lines and will build on the strengths of several departments
and two academic divisions to further enhance the campus’s reputation in marine
sciences and environmental studies.
Resources
The current cadre of marine science faculty (about 46 faculty from 7 departments) can
provide the physical and biological sciences course work needed for the program. At this
time, it is anticipated that up to three new faculty FTE would be needed at the outset to
cover the core courses of the program; many potential electives are offered already.
Graduate student support, some level of administrative support, and a modest amount of
space will also be needed.
Funding
Discussions continue between the Social Sciences and Physical and Biological Sciences
Divisions regarding funding and FTE allocation.
Students
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At the outset, the program would serve approximately 8-10 students. As student and
faculty interest grows along with program reputation, internship opportunities, etc., the
program could expand to 20-25 students in several years.
Employment Implications
There is a market for professionals with both scientific and management/policy training
for positions in marine agencies, natural resource leadership and management at both the
state and federal levels, legislatures and legislative bodies (especially policy
development), public education and outreach with non-governmental organizations,
university-based research groups, and governmental research institutions.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs
As stated above, this program would be unique in the UC system. UCSB’s Bren School
of Environmental Science and Management offers a Master’s of Environmental Science
and Management addressing scientific and socio-economic issues related to coastal
marine ecosystems and a Ph.D. program geared to future research professors. Berkeley’s
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science, Policy and Management focuses on
addressing environmental problems of major social and political impact. Irvine’s M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Health Science and Policy emphasize public health
and the environment.
There are 12 U.S. universities that provide graduate degrees in marine policy, marine
affairs, or marine resource management. All offer master’s degrees, and three offer Ph.D.
programs (University of Delaware, University of Rhode Island, and East Carolina
University). CSU Monterey Bay admitted their first cohort of 12 students into the
Coastal and Watershed Science & Policy M.S. program in fall 2006. CSU Monterey Bay,
Oregon State University and the University of Washington are the only west-coast
universities that offer programs.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Informal campus review is on-going, with a potential administrative home to be
determined.
Current Status
The proposal was developed under Earth Sciences Professor Gary Griggs’ direction. It is
currently in draft form, has been reviewed by the chair and faculty of the Environmental
Sciences Department, and is being discussed by the Social Sciences and PBSci deans.
The administrative home for the program has yet to be determined, with the possibility of
being placed in the potential School of the Environment.
Campus Contact Person
Gary Griggs, Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Professor of Earth
Sciences, is the contact person for specific information about the proposed program. His
mail stop is Ocean Sciences, email is griggs@ucsc.edu, and telephone extension is
831/459-5006.
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COMPARATIVE U.S. STUDIES PHD
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
The objectives of the graduate program in Comparative United States Studies Graduate
Program (CUSSP) are to: 1) provide students and professors with dynamic and rigorous
training in multi-disciplinary scholarship on the study of the United States; and 2) serve
as a resource for public and private institutions who aim to expand their understanding of
the United States in its past, present and future forms.
This graduate group on the United States is global in scope and comparative in approach. By this
we mean that although we focus distinctly on the United States, we understand the U.S. to be a
nation that has important global dimensions and to be a nation that is also critically defined by its
multi-national, immigrant based citizenry. This comparative and global approach represents a
new approach to the study of the United States. It will also represent an innovation in the field of
“American Studies” of which CUSSP is a part. “American Studies” when practiced from this
perspective, will fundamentally define the United States as an international, multi-national,
multi-racial and ethnic nation with cultural, technological and economic global significance. This
new approach accounts, in part, for our decision to use “United States” over the more commonly
used “America” in our program title. We believe, based on our research, that this will be the first
Comparative U.S. Studies Ph.D. program in the country.
Our three primary areas of study will be defined by the following three research clusters:
Expressive Practices and Media Studies; Nation, Diaspora and Borderlands, and Democracy,
Law and Public Life. These three areas of exploration make room for a wide variety of research
projects with several axes of concern. CUSSP will thus represent something new and distinctive
in the study of American life, and as such should be able to attract a distinguished group of
graduate students and make a major contribution to the intellectual life of UC Santa Cruz.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
CUSSP builds on existing programs and establishes a new endeavor at the same time. At this
point, the interdisciplinary study of the United States takes place in several existing departments,
but no single department or program is dedicated exclusively to this area of research and
graduate programming. Our program will bring in new faculty who study the United States and
will bring existing faculty into synergistic relation across several departments and three divisions
(Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts Divisions).
CUSSP will offer new courses and will share courses with many departments and programs on
campus. In addition, some of the principal CUSSP faculty will be drawn from existing
departments. Levels of existing faculty participation in CUSSP will be based on department and
faculty interest and needs.
CUSSP will offer new courses as well as share existing courses taught by existing faculty and
will work closely with the current undergraduate American Studies program, especially in
relation to TA support and with other graduate programs, perhaps offering students a
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parenthetical notation and other cross-curriculum exchanges. CUSSP is expected to enhance
interdepartmental graduate student and faculty exchanges, dialogue and research.
Although housed in the American Studies Department within the Humanities Division, the
program/group will function trans-divisionally, in support of campus initiatives articulated in the
Millennium Report, for interdisciplinary graduate programs with cooperative relationships across
departments and divisions. Such strong interactions among departments have long been a
hallmark of UCSC and with CUSSP these more extensive departmental and divisional exchanges
will be brought to bear on the field of American Studies.
Resources
The Humanities Division hopes to provide three FTE as well as physical space for new CUSSP
faculty, administrative support funds and administration offices within the American Studies
Department. The program will share a full-time Administrative Assistant III with the American
Studies Department. The current staffing formula of a total of 1.42 FTE will be adjusted upward
to 2 FTE, the standard staffing for departments with graduate programs. In addition to the 3
faculty FTE, annual funds needed for faculty participation buyouts of existing faculty will need
to be determined more specifically, based on final decisions regarding types of faculty
participation. It appears that these buyout costs should total approximately $42,000 annually for
the first three years. As new hires are secured, this buyout budget will be proportionately
reduced. The projected annual budget for events, lectures, honoraria, and office supplies is
projected to cost an additional $7,500 per year. To augment considerable current McHenry
holdings, we will be able to allocate library start-up fund at the normal rate of $6,000 per faculty
FTE for each of the three permanent CUSSP appointments, for a total of $18,000. In addition,
library staff suggest an increase in the base materials budget of $16,479. Computing costs are
still being calculated, but we expect them to be commensurate with existing/start-up budgets for
humanities and social science related programs.
Rough Estimate of New Resources Required
Year 1
Year 2
Buyout Funds
$42,000
$42,000
Events, etc.
$7,500
$7,500
Faculty FTE
$55,000
$55,000
Library Start up
$6,000
$6,000
Staff Salalry &
$23,750
$23,750
benefits
Totals:
$134,250
$134,250
Year 3
$42,000
$7,500
$55,000
$6,000
$23,750
Year 4
$34,000
$7,500
Year 5
$34,000
$7,500
$23,750
$23,750
$134,250
$65,250
$65,250
Funding
These resources will be funded primarily by the Humanities Division, with additional
funds provided by the Social Sciences Division and Arts Division. We expect the
establishment of CUSSP to contribute to the campus wide mission of expanding graduate
programs, and do not for see any trade-offs beyond those associated with any new
growth.
Students
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Years 2009-010 through 2016-17
# first-year students
Total # of students
1112
5
5
1213
5
10
1314
5
15
1415
5
20
1516
5
25
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1617
5
30
1718
5
30
1819
5
35
Employment Implications
Currently there are approximately 30-40 jobs listed in the Career Network job listings under
fields directly related to CUSSP. Jobs in American Studies, Ethnic Studies, American Culture,
Media and Popular Culture, and many other fields are jobs for which CUSSP students will be
especially qualified.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
As of this point, there are extremely few American Studies Ph.D. programs in the western region
of the Unites States, and even fewer within the State of California and none in the University of
California system. Aside from a new program recently launched at the University of Southern
California, there is only one, small Ph.D. program in American Studies on the west coast, at
Washington State University. An American Studies Ph.D. program has recently been established
at the University of Southern California that borrows heavily from existing Ethnic Studies
program curriculums. CUSSP does not employ this curriculum model and is therefore
significantly different from ethnic studies programs within the University of California and
California State campuses.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Winter 09
Formal Campus Review
Spring 09-Winter 10 Formal Off Campus Review
Winter – Spring 11 Advertise and Admissions
2011-2012
First Students Enroll
Current Status
A full draft of the proposal is currently under review and should be ready for formal campus
consideration as early as January 2008.
Campus Contact Person
Name:
Eric Porter, Associate Professor
Department: Department of American Studies
Address:
1156 High Street; Humanities Academic Services
Telephone:
831.459.5287
ecporter@ucsc.edu
Email:
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING M.Eng.
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
The objective of the proposed Master in Engineering (M.Eng.) degree to be offered in
Electrical Engineering is to provide an opportunity for advanced study for engineers who
desire more advanced and specialized work but do not intend to continue on to the Ph. D.
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It differs from the M.S. program as it is a terminal professional degree, whereas the M.S.
is intended to serve as an entry to a Ph.D. program. The main features of the M.Eng.
program are that, consisting of 45 units of course work, it can be completed in one year at
full-time or two years at half-time; it does not require a thesis, a separate research project
or a comprehensive exam; it has flexible course requirements including an option of up to
three courses in business, management, and economics. The required courses do include
project based design work.
Engineering professional societies such as the IEEE (International Electrical and
Electronic Engineering society) are currently considering whether the M.S or M.Eng.
should be the entry professional degree in engineering rather than the B.S. This is due to
a number of changes in the industrial environment. Business demands have made the
standard 4 year curriculum inadequate for an adequate education and as technology has
continued to evolve there are significant pressures to expand the curriculum to cover the
breadth of subjects that engineers must master. Many companies hiring students at the
B.S. level overcome educational deficiencies by use of on-the-job training. This results
in narrowly trained engineers rather than those trained for a broader range of tasks and
work environments. We believe and our industrial partners believe that society, industry
and our students would be better served by an opportunity for engineering students to
acquire a broader range of skills and in a timely manner as we propose in this degree
program.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The existence of this program would fit in well with the TIM program and the possibility
of a UCSC School of Management centered at the Silicon Valley Center. UCSC has
established the SVC headquartered at the NASA-Ames Park in Mountain View and SoE
is committed to developing academic programs at that location. A video link to be
established between the Ames site and the Santa Cruz campus would allow students to
take courses at both locations.
Such a program would be attractive not only to students that work in the valley, but could
be used as a recruiting tool for undergraduates. Students could get more advanced
technical training in their 5th year; and at the end of five years would have two degrees, a
B.S. and a M.Eng.
Resources
The courses we need to offer for a M.Eng. program are much the same as those used to
teach our current MS/PhD program. We anticipate the need for few additional resources
to implement this program. Students would in most case be expected to fund their
attendance much as for their undergraduate programs. Our main resources for graduate
student support, T.A.s, block grants, departmental fellowships, contracts, grants, gifts,
would continue to be allocated for our Ph. D. students. Our graduate courses are
currently undersubscribed so improved enrollment resulting from students pursuing this
degree option would result in more efficient resource utilization within the School of
Engineering. Increased enrollments additionally will help us to expand the variety and
depth of our graduate course offerings. We also intend to offer courses remotely, in
conjunction with the Silicon Valley Center, thus increasing the convenience for
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practicing engineers to earn advanced degrees and better utilizing this resource in the
Silicon Valley. The other major resource impact is on advising. Initially we propose that
this program have a single faculty adviser to insure program uniformity and establish
norms and policies for approval of various courses of study. As the program grows,
enrollment increases, and we become familiar as a faculty with the advising issues we
will split the advising load between one or more faculty members for each of the focus
areas.
Funding
Major sources of funding include, students tuition and fees, divisional support and
campus support.
Students
There are significant numbers of students enrolled in graduate courses in EE at UCSC
who work in Silicon Valley. The ability to take courses at both the SVC and the main
UCSC campus would be attractive to many students. Initially we estimate 10-20 students
in this degree program with 5 year growth to 50 students. The introduction of this
program is intended to provide a better balance between the enrollment in our Masters
and Ph. D. programs and increase our overall graduate enrollment.
Employment Implications
Graduates of this program will be better prepared for high tech careers in the Silicon
Valley and the South Bay region. At present there is a large demand for students with
skills in analog circuit design, nanotechnology and bio-devices. Students with the M.
Eng. should be much more attractive to and employable by industry.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions with Similar Offerings
Programs much like the one proposed here are offered in our area by Stanford (M.S.E.E.
with no thesis requirement, ~1 year to complete) and within the UC system by the
Electrical Engineering Department at UC San Diego (M. Eng. 1 year no thesis, M.S. ~2
years with thesis or comprehensive exam). We have closely modeled our proposed
program on this existing M. Eng. Program at UCSD.
Master of engineering degrees are conferred by numerous other departments with in the
University of California. Among them are:
UC San Diego:
- EE and Comp. Engr. 1 year no Thesis 28 units Core Graduate level, 8 units
Graduate technical electives, 12 units professional electives.
http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/grad/curricula/MEng/
- Bioengineering 1 year, no Thesis
http://www-bioeng.ucsd.edu/graduate/programs/meng/courses.cfm
UC Berkeley:
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- Civil & Enviro: 2 year, No Thesis Requirement, 40 Units, 16-20 units technical
core at graduate level,
http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/env/degrees/programs.html#meng
- Materials Sci & Eng-2 year, No Thesis Requirement, 40 Units total, 20 Units at
graduate level,
http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/gradmanual.html#MASTEROFENGINEERING
- Nuclear – 2 year, No thesis requirement, 40 Units of Course Work, 20 units at
graduate level, http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/graduate/me.htm
- Mech. Eng –2 year, No Thesis-Detailed requirements not immediately apparent,
http://www.me.berkeley.edu/new/students/degrees.html
UC Davis:
- Civil: 36 Units, 12 at graduate level, no thesis, Exam and Project,
http://cee.engr.ucdavis.edu/Graduate/DegreePrograms.htm
- Mech & Aero Engr 36 Units, 24 Graduate, Exam and Project,
http://mae.ucdavis.edu/programs/grad_studies/grd_masters.html
They also have a M.S. with Exam only and no thesis
- Bio & Ag Engr 36 Units, 12 graduate level engineering courses, Report,
http://bae.engineering.ucdavis.edu/pages/graduate/ms.html
The B.S. degree requirement at UC Davis is 180-195 units implying a full load of
~45 units per year.
Other engineering schools around the nation offer M. Eng degrees including MIT with a
one year program, only available when combined with a B.S.
http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/mengadm.html, and Cornell with a one year program
including a project, http://www.ece.cornell.edu/aca-meng.cfm.
In comparison with the other UC M. Eng. programs our proposed program like, UC San
Diego, is more focused on graduate level work with a decidedly technical emphasis
allowing rapid completion and development of focused technical mastery.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates:
2007-2008 preliminary planning and consultations
2008-2009 formal campus review
2009-10 advertise and admissions
2010 first student majors enroll
Current Status
A formal written proposal is being developed by the department of electrical engineering.
Campus Contact Person
At this time, the best contact persons are Professor John Vesecky Chair EE Dept;
Vesecky@cse.ucsc.edu; (831) 459-4099 (phone), or Associate Professor Kenneth
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Pedrotti, Deppartment of Electrical Engineering, author of the departmental proposal and
EE department Chair at the time our proposal was written and submitted; Campus Mail
Stop SOE2, Pedrotti@ee.ucsc.edu; (831) 459-1229.
FEMINIST STUDIES PHD
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
The proposed Feminist Studies Doctoral Program is designed to foreground transnational
analyses that move beyond traditional notions of the international and the comparative, to
formulate problem-based research methodologies, and to develop an institutional
structure that situates the formation of knowledge within a collaborative learning
environment. This program builds upon the strengths of an already well-established and
highly successful undergraduate program in Feminist Studies. A graduate parenthetical
notation in Feminist Studies that involves seven cooperating departments has been in
place since 1992. As of June 2007, fifty students have graduated and forty students are
currently in the Parenthetical. Progression to a doctoral program is the natural next step,
especially in light of the establishment of the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research
within the Humanities Division. The doctoral program has two main objectives: first, to
provide scholars and teachers with a rigorous training in feminist methods and research;
and second, to serve the needs of other professionals in areas such as public policy and
human rights research.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The Doctoral Program in Feminist Studies will complement and contribute to graduate
programs in other UCSC departments. A number of graduate programs in the
Humanities and Social Sciences have concentrations or tracks in feminist scholarship.
These include the departments of History, History of Consciousness, Literature,
Anthropology, Politics, Psychology, and Sociology. Students from these and other
departments have enrolled in the interdisciplinary graduate courses that the Feminist
Studies department has offered for the last thirteen years. The Doctoral Program in
Feminist Studies will offer a broader range of courses that can also contribute to the
training of graduate students in other departments. In addition, it will provide a forum for
graduate students across departments and divisions in which to share their feminist
research interests.
This proposal has been included in the campus ten-year academic plan, as part of the
Humanities Division’s ten-year plan. Final internal campus reviews of the doctoral
program proposal should be completed in 2007-08, while UC-wide review would take
place in 2008-09.
Resources
Estimated faculty FTE: The proposed program relies on a Principal Faculty of 13, drawn
from the Department of Feminist Studies and five other departments (History of
Consciousness, Literature, Anthropology, History of Art and Visual Culture, and Latin
American and Latino Studies) in three divisions (Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts).
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It will be administered by the Department of Feminist Studies, where there are currently
six FTE. These faculty resources are sufficient for launching the program; however,
eight FTE from within Feminist Studies (as proposed as a minimum in the Humanities
Division Academic Plan) would better sustain the program. Preferred rank for new
Feminist Studies hires: two Associate to Full, one Assistant (subject to negotiation and
divisional priorities). The program will benefit from additional designated hires in gender
and sexuality studies included in the Humanities Division Academic Plan, whether they
occur in Feminist Studies or in other departments.
Estimated additional library acquisition costs: Sustainable minimum, $15,000 (in faculty
start-up funds); additional costs anticipated as faculty are added (normal Divisional startup allocations should be sufficient).
Estimated additional computing costs: For faculty, start-up funds usually available. For
graduate students, the program would need assistance from the Division to provide access
to computers and printers in the amount of $7,490-$7,990.
Estimated Staff FTE: The Feminist Studies staff was recently augmented to 1.75 FTE in
anticipation of the new doctoral program. An additional .25 staff FTE would allow
optimal functioning for the program.
Estimated Space Needs: Space needs for faculty and staff are accounted for in the new
Humanities 1 building. The department will need an additional 350 square feet for
graduate computing lab/commons, as well as another 350 square feet for use as a
graduate seminar room.
New Courses: Feminist Theories (200), Feminist Methodologies (201), Disciplining
Knowledge (202A); Culture, Power Politics (202B); Technologies of Modernity (202C);
History and Memory (202D); Feminist Pedagogies (203); Group Independent Study
(296); Independent Study (297); Collaborative Research (297F - two units, one hour per
week); Group Dissertation Research (298); Dissertation Research (299).
Funding
A key advantage to this program is that it maximizes the use of existing resources while
minimizing the need for additional financial outlays. By drawing on an excellent group
of faculty currently at UCSC, a new Doctoral program can be mounted now, though it
would benefit from some additional but modest FTE allocation for program leadership
and administration. A letter of funding support from the Dean of Graduate Studies has
committed resources for graduate student support. The Department has already
established the 21st Century Feminist Scholarship Endowment Fund.
Students
The Feminist Studies Doctoral Program will admit five to seven students per year. At
maturity, there will be approximately 25 students in the program.
Employment Implications
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The past few years of the academic job market have demonstrated a clear and sustained
growth in the number of feminist studies jobs available. There is increasing demand for
teachers of feminist studies and critical gender studies at both the two-year and four-year
college levels, as well as in the growing number of graduate programs in
women’s/gender/feminist studies.
The UCSC program is also uniquely situated to provide intellectual training in policy and
non-governmental research, to name a few select areas, and is thus capable of meeting the
new demand for professionals with women’s studies or feminist studies degrees in public
and private sector agencies. As policy-making organizations, state institutions, and
businesses continue to confront issues of diversity in the workplace and beyond, the
demand will grow for scholars, activists, and consultants with experience and expertise in
areas such as gender equity, international feminist issues, multiculturalism, women’s
health, family planning, and education.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
The only other established doctoral program in feminist studies in the University of
California system is at UCLA. The proposed Doctoral Program in Feminist Studies at
UCSC should not conflict with the program at UCLA because of focus and design.
Cooperative work between the two programs, and others in development, is expected.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
2007-2008
campus review
2008-2009
off-campus review
2009-2010
advertising and admissions
2010-2011
first students matriculate
Current Status
The revised proposal is being re-submitted to the Dean of Humanities and to the Vice
Provost for Academic Affairs after various informal reviews.
Campus Contact Person
Gina Dent
Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies
Chair, Feminist Studies Department - UCSC
email: ginadent@ucsc.edu
831-459-3424
JEWISH STUDIES B.A.
Description of, and Reason for Establishment
Jewish Studies at U. C. Santa Cruz emphasizes the diasporic and transnational aspects of
Jewish culture, in its interactions with other cultures, as it has shaped and been shaped by
them. This interdisciplinary major provides students with a broad knowledge of Jewish
thought, literature, art, and history and their relationship to other traditions, as well as the
necessary linguistic competence in Hebrew for the study of Jewish culture. The dynamic
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history of Jewish culture spans over three thousand years as a continuous, self-reflecting
civilization that has responded to eras and empires from the ancient to the modern. This
pattern of reflection and response has led to cultural innovation and institutional
initiatives that have made Jewish culture one of the major sources of a wide range of
contemporary cultural practices from religion to intellectual and professional pursuits.
The U. C. Santa Cruz program engages the spectrum of Jewish responses to the culture,
history, and thought of classical, medieval, and modern civilizations, while emphasizing
the ancient and modern eras. We offer courses in Jewish cultural media that deal with
literary, philosophical, artistic, scientific, communal, urban, and social experiences and
discourses — and the concomitant impact of the history of this Jewish work on the
civilizations in which it has been embedded.
Emphasizing modernity as we do does not mean a focus only on Europe or North
America; the major is intended to speak to modernity as a global phenomenon, dealing
with sites throughout the world where Jews have lived. The many diasporic centers of
cultural, social, and political achievement provide a multicultural, comparative
dimension; transnationalism is constantly in tension with local habits, as Maimonides'
letter to the Jews of Yemen of the twelfth century, for example, already makes clear.
Similarly, the transformational role of Jewish women in modern Jewish culture, and the
establishment of the state of Israel, reveal the complexities of the tension between
centripetal and centrifugal forces, indicating the importance of a comparative perspective.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The Jewish Studies major expands on the current minor in Jewish Studies. More faculty
will join faculty members from Literature, Languages, History, Feminist Studies, History
of Art & Visual Culture, and Philosophy who currently share Jewish Studies courses and
symposia with their departments. No existing campus programs will be changed or
discontinued as a result of this major; rather, they will reinforce and be reinforced by the
major in Jewish Studies, including the concentrations in modern culture, classical texts,
and the Holocaust.
The Jewish Studies program was part of the Division of Humanities Ten-Year Plan dated
December 2001. It has demonstrated significant student demand for the subject matter
and considerable faculty expertise and interest. The plan suggests that Jewish Studies
should achieve administrative autonomy within ten years.
Resources
Current Resources: Nine faculty members (Assaf Yasur-Landau, Peter Kenez, Barbara
Epstein, Bruce Thompson, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Catherine Soussloff, Dan Selden,
Gildas Hamel, and Murray Baumgarten) currently offer at least one course every year.
There is a .5 FTE staff person, TA support, general library support plus three library
endowments and office space with computer and telephone.
The Helen Diller Family Endowment of $1.5million supports visiting scholars, especially
visiting Israeli scholars. We have just received the third three-year Koret Foundation
grant to help develop the Jewish Studies major. This $150,000 grant follows the earlier
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$99,000 grant and includes a $10,000/year component for graduate fellowships and a
component for library development. The Neufeld-Levin professorship is now in its third
five-year cycle, with Peter Kenez and Murray Baumgarten serving as co-chairs, and the
David B. Gold Foundation provides approximately $13, 000 each year to bring
distinguished lecturers to the campus. The program has also been supported by other
individual donations. In our early years IHR supported our research colloquium and
international conferences, beginning with “Latin American Jewish Writers and FilmMakers,” “Translating Jewish Texts,” “Translating Paul Celan,” and “Rethinking
Antisemitism: the Holocaust and the Contemporary World.”
Funding
The appointment of Assaf Yasur-Laudau was funded by the division. We anticipate that
further appointments will be supported by a combination of foundation support and state
funding.
Students
For the last three years we have averaged 11 students opting for the minor in Jewish
Studies, and we anticipate a similar number will chose the undergraduate Jewish Studies
major. Currently there are three students developing their own independent Jewish
Studies majors; we have averaged three independent Jewish Studies majors for several
years. We anticipate program commencement in 2008-09. Steady State of up to 25
majors is anticipated by 2011. Little impact on existing programs is anticipated. One
literature graduate student, Warren Hoffman, completed his PhD; another, George
Bloom, received his M.A. and is now working toward a PhD in Jewish Studies and
Comparative Literature at Stanford. Three History graduate students (Amanda Jenkins,
Kelly Feinstein, and Heather Paul)and one History of Consciousness graduate student
(Anike Walke) currently work on aspects of Jewish Studies.
Employment Implications
Graduates in Jewish Studies and Jewish Thought and Culture are in great demand for
teaching and research positions in Jewish studies and for Jewish communal service
institutions, including community centers and congregations.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
Stanford has the most important program at present, with 19 fully funded graduate
students and 5 full-time faculty in Jewish Studies and another 12 in related departments.
Stanford offers a B.A. and a Ph.D. UCSD and UCLA have parallel programs; the
Graduate Theological Union, which is affiliated with UCB, offers only the Ph.D. UCB
has started an undergraduate minor as has Davis, and both are developing an
undergraduate major. San Francisco State has a B.A. program. Although there are other
publicly funded Jewish Studies majors in the greater San Francisco Bay area, none of
them emphasize the diasporic and transnational aspects of Jewish culture to the extent
that ours does.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Fall 2007
Preliminary planning and consultations; proposal preparation
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Winter 2008 Formal campus review
2008-9
First student majors enroll
Current Status
The proposal has undergone informal review, and now awaits completion and submission
for formal review.
Campus Contact Person
Murray Baumgarten, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Department of Literature
dickens@ucsc.edu, telephone 459-2566 and fax is 459-4872.
LATIN AMERICAN & LATINO STUDIES PHD
Description of, and Reasons for, Establishment
A PhD program in Latin American/Latino Studies remains a long-term goal for the
Division of Social Sciences. Planning for the program began in 2005.
• To respond to emerging demands for intellectual approaches that are capable of
analyzing historical and recent social processes that are the products of
globalization in the Americas;
• To train students in interdisciplinary approaches that interrogate the processes that
link peoples and ideas across borders and help them to conceptually and
methodologically identify and design new objects of study, as well as to rethink
and situate their work while being mindful of conventional disciplinary
approaches;
• To prepare students for a job market that will include newly defined positions
within academia as well as in policy centers, public/private institutions (such as
museums), nongovernmental organizations, and private foundations;
• To sustain the department’s synergy with the many scholarly activities sponsored
by key research centers, which creates a vibrant intellectual climate on campus.
These centers include: the Chicano/Latino Research Center; the Center for
Justice, Tolerance and Community; the Center for Cultural Studies; the Center for
Global, International and Regional Studies; and the Institute for Advanced
Feminist Research. 1
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The department has developed a Parenthetical Notation in LALS, which was approved by
the Graduate Council in summer 2003. Currently, the department has entered into
agreements with the following graduate degree granting departments: anthropology,
environmental studies, history, history of consciousness, literature, politics, psychology
and sociology. The Graduate Council has approved all these agreements. Since this
program transcends disciplinary boundaries and has a distinct intellectual mission, the
1
See < http://lals.ucsc.edu/clrc/>, < http://cjtc.ucsc.edu/ >,
<http://humwww.ucsc.edu/CultStudies/index.html>, <http://www2.ucsc.edu/cgirs/> and
<http://iafr.ucsc.edu/>
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curriculum could not be offered within any existing structure, either as a pathway or
emphasis with an existing graduate program.
There are no overlaps between the proposed curriculum and the curricula of other units
on this campus.
Resources
Unknown at this time.
Funding
Division of Social Sciences.
Students
Enrollments in LALS have grown dramatically over the past five years. In fall of 2007,
we have 134 majors (some combined), 98 who declared they intend to become majors,
and 18 minors. The majority of our majors are Latino/as. The long-term growth of the
major is the major indication that the demand for this program will be stable and long
lasting.
Employment Implications
Unknown at this time.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions with Similar Offerings
This program has no competition with other UC campuses or regional or private
institutions at this time. There are no comparable PhD programs in the UC. The closest is
the program in World Cultures at UC Merced. There are other somewhat related
programs at UCSB (Chicano/a Studies), UCSD and UCB (Ethnic Studies), and UCD
(Native American Studies).
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
2007-08
Divisional Review
2008-09
Formal campus review
2009-10
Formal off-campus review
2010-11
Advertise and admissions
2011-12
First student majors enroll
Current Status
The department expects to submit the proposal in 2007-2008.
Campus Contact Person
Patricia Zavella, Professor and Chair; Latin American/Latino Studies; Merrill Faculty
Services; 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, zavella@ucsc.edu; 831-4592855(voice); 831-459-3125(fax)
MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING B.S.
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Description of and Reasons for Establishment
Mechatronics, defined as the combination of mechanical (“mecha”) and electronics
(“tronics”) is an area that is growing in importance and increasing in popularity as a field
of study around the world. Indeed, the use of microcontrollers as components in everyday
devices is a trend that will only increase as the cost of computation drops with Moore’s
law. While most departments in Mechatronics are currently in universities outside the
USA (Canada, Australia an example), several departments within the USA offer
Mechatronics as a specialization of either mechanical or electrical engineering.
Mechatronics is an exciting area, with tendrils of research reaching into many synergistic
applications with other departments. For instance, Robust software structures become
increasingly important in real world reactive systems, and combine traditional Computer
Science with Mechatronics. Another example is using statistical signal processing (EE) in
sensor fusion and estimation to create low-cost sensor suites suitable for Mechatronic
systems.
Students are naturally drawn to the area, as it combines many of the disciplines normally
taught in electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering, as well as computer science.
Robotics, applied control, analog and digital circuit design, statics and dynamics, and
embedded software and hardware all fall within the Mechatronics umbrella.
At UCSC, we can easily re-cast a group of faculty as an interdisciplinary Mechatronics
group. Several of the faculty from AMS, TIM, CS, EE, and CE could work together and
with a few additional classes, offer a coherent curriculum and course of research. While
creating a Mechanical Engineering department from scratch would be very difficult in
terms of faculty hires and curriculum changes, a Mechatronic Engineering program can
be created with relatively few large scale maneuvers.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The proposed program will consist of a combination of new courses combined with
appropriate existing courses, mostly from the School of Engineering. Certain new and
existing courses will be cross- listed between departments. Facilities, equipment, faculty
and staff will be shared due to the variety of courses that will comprise the curriculum.
No existing campus programs or units will be discontinued due to this program. The
program is expected to have an administrative home in the Department of Computer
Engineering.
Resources
Existing resources for this program include 3 primary faculty (Dunbar and Elkaim in CE,
Kubby in EE), 5 associated faculty (Mantey in CE; Akella, Musacchio and Ross in
ISTM; Wiberg (Emeritus) in EE), and hires planned in Computer Engineering in the next
5 years. The program would in many ways be an undergraduate counterpart to the
planned graduate emphasis in Autonomous Systems.
Funding
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Current sources of funding include divisional support and campus support through
enrollment growth. Substantial support for research and training from federal agencies,
private foundations, and industry ties is actively being pursued.
Students
In three years, we estimate that a steady-state range of 20-40 undergraduate students per
year will be enrolled in this program.
Employment Implications
Graduates of this program will be prepared for careers in several exciting areas of
industry (including aerospace, computer hardware, robotics, biotechnology and
instrumentation broadly applied), as well as for further advancement in academia.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
UC does not yet offer a BS in Mechatronic Engineering. CSU Chico has an accredited
program.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates:
2007-08, 2011-12: Faculty hiring in autonomous systems
2008-09 Undergraduate degree proposal for campus review.
Current Status
This program is currently in the conceptual stage; a formal written
proposal does not exist.
Campus Contact Person
Richard Hughey, Professor and Chair, Department of
Computer Engineering; rph@soe.ucsc.edu; 831.459.2939 (phone); 831.459.4829 (fax).
PLANETARY SCIENCES M.S./PH.D
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
This interdisciplinary program will provide graduate students with the quantitative and
observational techniques to study planetary origins and evolutions, both in this Solar
System and elsewhere. Such problems are inherently cross-disciplinary: for instance, the
timescales over which planets accrete are constrained by infrared telescope observations,
dynamical modeling and geochemical measurements. The program will consist of a
common set of core courses, together with more focused courses tailored to specific
techniques.
Despite the growing demand for planetary scientists with quantitative backgrounds, no
UC institution currently offers a Ph.D. in planetary sciences. UCSC has existing strengths
in planetary sciences in Astronomy, Earth Sciences and the Applied Math & Statistics
(AM&S) department within the Baskin School of Engineering. The proposed Ph.D.
program will draw on the strengths of these departments, and will also benefit from links
with the nearby NASA Ames Research Center.
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Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units and Mission
A graduate group in Planetary Sciences was identified as an instructional goal in the
December 2001 long-range academic plan for the Physical and Biological Sciences
Division. Though development of the program is just now beginning, it continues to
have divisional support. The proposed program will consist of a mixture of new courses
plus existing courses, mainly from Astronomy and Earth Sciences. The resulting graduate
group will have its administrative home in Earth Sciences. Some new and existing
courses will be cross-listed, for instance the proposed introductory graduate-level class on
Planetary Physics. No existing campus programs or units will be discontinued due to this
program.
Resources
There are already six core faculty in place: three from Earth Sciences, two from
Astronomy and one from AM&S. Several other faculty also teach existing courses that
are relevant to the proposed program. Physical resources – the classrooms and labs, and
books and periodicals in the Science and Engineering Laboratory – are already generally
in place. One exception is space for new staff and/or faculty hired through the program.
To reach steady state by 2013, it is expected that 5-8 new courses will be developed. This
expansion will require 3-5 new faculty FTE and 1-2 staff to support the faculty and
coordinate the curriculum. Some of the teaching requirements may be met temporarily by
the appointment of Ames personnel as adjunct faculty. Funds will also be required for
teaching assistantships. Resources will be required for the first three years to sustain a
growth of 1-2 new faculty and 2-3 new courses per year, plus one staff position.
Funding
On-campus support may potentially come from CalSpace and UARC. Support for
research and training from federal agencies and private foundations is also currently
being pursued. In particular, the NSF IGERT program is a potential source of graduate
student support.
Students
In the year of commencement (projected 2012), 6 Ph.D. and 2 M.S. students are
expected. Within five years it is expected that the steady state values of 20 Ph.D. and 10
M.S. students will be attained. The program is likely to have a slightly negative impact on
Earth Sciences and Astronomy graduate enrollments, but the current growth in popularity
of planetary sciences is expected to significantly outweigh this effect.
Employment Implications
The resurgence in NASA missions, and the growth in the number of NASA grants, means
that there are plenty of job opportunities for planetary sciences graduates, in universities
and other academic institutions, government labs such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
and NASA Ames, and aerospace contractors such as Lockheed Martin.
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No other UC institution offers a Planetary Sciences Ph.D., although UCLA offers a
broader Ph.D. program in Geophysics and Space Physics. The California Institute of
Technology does offer a Planetary Sciences Ph.D., as do a handful of other institutions
around the country (notably the University of Arizona and MIT).
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Campus review may begin in fall 2008. According to the current guidelines and
instructions for the Five Year List, we can anticipate the first enrollments in 2012-13.
Current Status
This program is currently at the conceptual stage; a formal written proposal has not yet
been developed.
Campus Contact Person
Francis Nimmo, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, is the contact person for specific
information about the proposed program. His mail stop is Earth Sciences, email is
fnimmo@es.ucsc.edu, and telephone extension is 831/459-1783.
REMOTE SENSING/ GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS M.S.
Description of and Reasons for Establishment
This proposal is oriented towards establishing an interdisciplinary Master’s degree in the
field of Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems. A technological revolution
has taken place in the last quarter of the 20th century, allowing diverse characteristics of
the environmental system to be imaged as continuous fields with high spatial and
temporal resolution by airborne and spaceborne ('remote') platforms. Passive imaging is
complemented by “active” techniques such as radar and lidar, used to probe specific
locations in detail, and by “ground truth” measurements. Collectively, these technologies
are known as Remote Sensing.
There is a growing state need for a new generation of undergraduate and graduate
students with experience in applying remote sensing to environmental problems. The
University of California Santa Cruz is actively engaged in research in the State’s critical
environmental systems, including coastal waters, agricultural regions, surface water
distribution system, atmospheric and climate systems, and active crustal fault system
along a major tectonic plate boundary. Considerable intellectual expertise in this area
exists at both NASA Ames and within Silicon Valley and the program has the prospect of
taking advantage of the linkages that UCSC has fostered over the last decade.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The most notable aspect of the current UCSC effort in Remote Sensing/GIS is its crossdisciplinary character. Interest in this program is likely to cross disciplinary boundaries
and will include participation from the Department of Ocean Sciences in the Physical and
Biological Sciences Division, the Department of Environmental Studies in the Social
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Sciences Division and the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
in the Engineering Division.
Resources
To begin with, at least one full-time person (faculty or lecturer) who would oversee the
program and resources, and offer 2-3 additional classes. A System Manager (the precise
fractional percentage of time necessary would be developed in conjunction with the PB
Sci Academic Computing Group) would also be needed.
In addition, the RS/GIS Lab would need approximately 20 PCs with 200 Gb storage in
each, an ArcGIS class license, continue supporting the campus ENVI software license,
and a large disk storage (several Tb at least).
Funding
The initial curriculum of the program builds on our existing faculty infrastructure.
However,
it would require TAS funds to use existing faculty. The program could potentially draw
on expertise at the USCG and NASA for course instructors and development, and
technology expertise (provided that the financial model for implementation of the
program was sufficient).
Students
The initial target size for the proposed program is 20 students. However, the program has
prospects for growth considerably beyond this initial target size.
Employment Implications
This nascent area is, in essence, a technologically revolutionized form of
community/urban planning and analysis. The largest current market for graduates of such
programs is in the governmental arena, with essentially every governing unit (city,
county, state, as well as Departments of Transportation, Forestry and Parks) requiring an
expanding cadre of Remote Sensing/GIS-fluent graduates. However, the market for
Remote Sensing/GIS-trained individuals within industry, particularly within firms
oriented towards data mining is extensive. A sense for the magnitude of the job openings
within small industry/local government can be derived from the GIS jobs clearing house
(http://www.gjc.org/ and sub-pages therein), where each day an average of 6 new jobs
requiring GIS expertise are posted—and this represents only one compilation of job
opportunities.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs
The Penn State Master’s program in Geographic Information Systems (MGIS) is the
model. We understand that this program has in excess of 100 students, and offers the
Master’s degree based on the successful completion of 35 semester credits. The Penn
State program has substantial on-line components. Because of the computational
intensiveness of the general area of Remote Sensing/GIS, we anticipate that this is a
program that might be particularly amenable to having a sufficient portion of its
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curriculum ultimately being offered on-line—a possible new model for graduate
instruction at UCSC.
The CSU system has deployed significant resources towards offering certificates in GIS;
San Diego State, San Jose State, San Francisco State and Chico State each have such
Certificate programs.
In addition, an instructor pool with substantial expertise exists in close proximity to
UCSC assets within Silicon Valley and at Ames, with accompanying job-, research-, and
intern-related opportunities.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Campus review may begin in fall 2008. According to the current guidelines and
instructions for the Five Year List, we can anticipate the first enrollments in 2012-13.
Current Status
This proposal is being developed under Elise Knittle’s direction.
Campus Contact Person
Elise Knittle, Professor of Earth Sciences, is the contact person for specific information
about the proposed program. Her mail stop is Earth Sciences, email is
elise@emerald.ucsc.edu, and telephone extension is 831/459-4949.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING M.S./Ph.D.
Description and Reason for Establishment
At this point, the Computer Science Department is actively considering whether to
develop graduate programs in Software Engineering. No program specifics exist at this
time.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units and Mission
The MS and PhD in Software Engineering programs are part of the School' s long-range
academic plan. The fields of study represented in these degrees could meet an important
need for engineers working in these fields. In addition, the Software Engineering program
could be a key initiative in the Silicon Valley Center. It will also play a role in the
School's planned ITI ORU. Finally, Software Engineering is poised to be one of the
research themes of employees in the NASA Ames University Affiliated Research Center
(UARC), and it is likely that this talent pool can be leveraged to enrich the proposed
degree program, either as lecturers, or as project leaders.
Resources
The Computer Science ten-year plan calls for additional hiring of faculty with a
specialization in Software Engineering. Faculty additions to the program will result from
normal growth in the Computer Science department. In addition, it is anticipated that
there could be related faculty in Technology and Information Management (TIM) and in
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Computer Engineering (CE) who will work closely with the Software Engineering
program. It is expected that SOE will also have research-supported adjunct faculty.
Faculty office and research space has been planned as part of the CS department 10 year
plan. New offices will be located in the E2 building, as well as in the Silicon Valley
Center.
Funding
As mentioned above, workload and divisional allocations will support the program's
growth and development, along with research-supported visitors and adjunct faculty.
Students
We anticipate that once the Software Engineering major is available, a subset of the
existing graduate CS majors (perhaps 20%) will become majors. Since several of the
courses required for the SE major will be CS courses, there should be a small impact on
enrollments in CS. Additionally, we anticipate that the MS in Software Engineering will
be especially attractive to workers in Silicon Valley, and will result in additional
enrollments in Computer Science and Software Engineering courses.
Employment Implications: Because of the campus' proximity to Silicon Valley, the job
outlook is excellent. There is a strong current job market for graduates of the proposed
programs, and a strong market projected for the foreseeable future.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs: At
present, students in the Department of Informatics in the School of Information and
Computer Science at UC Irvine can receive a degree concentration in Software, which is
similar to the proposed degree program. In a similar vein, the University of Southern
California offers a specialization in Software Engineering for their Masters of Science
program (MSCS-SE).
Located closer to UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University offers a Masters in Software
Engineering degree program. Santa Clara University has limited research impact within
the Software Engineering community, however.
Carnegie Mellon University, though located in Pittsburgh, has a campus branch facility
on the NASA Ames campus (Carnegie Mellon West), and offers a Masters degree
program in Software Engineering, using a project-oriented curriculum in which there is
minimal participation in classrooms-style learning, with students learning material on an
as-needed basis during the project from videotaped lectures. While the CMU degree
program is the most significant potential competitor for the UCSC Software Engineering
degree programs, the high cost of the CMU program, as well as the non-traditional
learning style provides a niche for a less expensive and course-oriented curriculum. There
are also possibilities for cooperation between these two programs, and this possibility
will be explored as well.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Date:
2007-09 Division discussion/preparation of formal proposal
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2009-10 Proposal undergoes campus review
2010-11 Seek system-wide approval of program
2011-12 Admit first formal cohort of majors
Current Status
The CS Faculty is engaging in preliminary discussion of how formal graduate degree
programs in Software Engineering might be built upon existing departmental strengths
and initiatives.
Campus Contact Person
Associate Professor Jim Whitehead, Computer Science Department, Baskin Engineering,
ejw@soe.ucsc.edu , (831-459-1227) (FAX: 831-4594829)
TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT M.S./Ph.D.
Description of and Reasons for Anticipated Action
Design and management of complex systems, which employ and/or involve rapidly
changing technology, presents challenges to the enterprise and to the individual
executives and managers. The central technology in most complex systems today is
information technology, and the most rapidly changing business environments are in the
areas of information technology and complex system designs. The challenges are the
tight integration of technology and business to solve complex interdisciplinary problems
in the management, development and commercialization of technology. The need of
businesses and managers to respond to rapidly changing markets requires managers,
executives, and engineers, who have an understanding of technologies along with
analytical skills that enable them to develop theoretically sophisticated, and practically
implement viable solutions. The range of skills and abilities required to design and
manage complex systems in technology contexts include knowledge of the relevant
technologies, plus understanding of the operational, financial and marketing dimensions
of the business enterprise. Relevant technologies include knowledge management,
information system design, decision support, data mining and system level product
development, and enterprise level supply chain management and e-business. High-tech
industries require managers who possess analytic training to further direct their
technology- honed intuition (e.g., the use of data mining for market data understanding).
Successful executives and managers will be those who can exploit opportunities and
resources and employ risk management approaches, enabled by information technologies,
in designing product portfolios and achieving rapid and effective product design and
delivery. Students in this program will also have the opportunity to learn venture
analytics, going beyond traditional (experiential-based) entrepreneurship. Managers and
entrepreneurs require an understanding of the human and social elements, and the ability
to incorporate into enterprise management, in managing groups, and in responding to
customers. The skills and ability to communicate across all functions and levels within
and without the organization as well as leadership and people skills, are important
qualifications for these future managers. We also anticipate that many of the graduates of
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the program will be able to develop and manage sophisticated Business Intelligence
platforms and systems that drive enterprises. The doctoral students would develop theory
fusing sophisticated stochastic optimization management analytics with advanced
knowledge management methods, based on industry interactions.
Critical Role of Proposed Program or Unit in Fulfilling Campus Academic Plan.
Technology and Information Management, in partnership with other SOE programs,
Computer Networking and Software Engineering, serves to meet the needs of industry
and the State of California. These programs will enable UCSC to attract capable students
and train them to play important roles in the emerging technologies of the 21st century.
Together with the other programs in the School of Engineering, UCSC will be in a unique
position to fully exploit Santa Cruz’s location as the UC for Silicon Valley. We also
anticipate that Silicon Valley firms will have significant interest in a technologicallyoriented management program that can help provide skills to train key employees who
will learn to manage and lead teams to success. Based on our discussions, firms such as
Cisco have indicated interest and enthusiasm, and have provided additional contacts in
their technology areas, to form technology clusters of interested firms.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
The Technology & Information Management program is founded on an interdisciplinary
theme. The curriculum will include courses in the management of technology, financial
engineering applied to technology management and investment, technology supply value
chains and webs, information search and retrieval, information and knowledge systems
design and management, informational economics, psychology, plus additional
engineering courses to enrich the technical background of it students. Courses in
statistics, stochastic processes and optimization support the analytical dimensions of this
program. The program will complement the growing Business Economics Program in the
Social Sciences Division. The Ph.D. degree will be offered in cooperation with the
departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science
(including Software Engineering), Bio-Molecular Engineering, Economics, Sociology,
and Applied Mathematics and Statistics. The MS degree could potentially be in
collaboration with the Hass School of Business at UC Berkeley (discussions have been
initiated with Dean Tom Campbell), as the campus considers the possibility of a
Management School.
Resources
Planned faculty will total 8 FTE, which is already part of the long-range campus plan.
Staffing will include one program coordinator, one industry coordinator and one
administrative staff FTE. Up to 10 adjunct instructors/faculty with high tech and Silicon
Valley experience as executives and managers will be utilized initially for instruction,
allowing a phased- in approach to filling the program’s faculty FTE; some of these could
potentially include NASA, Silicon Valley firm employees and IBM, who are establishing
partnerships with us. Our location, near Silicon Valley and the Bay Area High-Tech hub,
provides our faculty and students with opportunities for frequent and close interaction
with enterprises working on technologies such as semiconductors, networking,
computers, software, nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology.
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Funding
The program has initial funding, and partnerships with industry and the community are
well underway. (Permanent funding for faculty will come from enrollment growth
funding.) The careful cultivation of partnerships with industry, business, and the
community will yield external resources to augment graduate student support and facility
enhancements. This linkage has also the potential for firms to support or subsidize
employees and UCSC, based on the successful development of the program and business
conditions.
Students
The program expects to have 9 masters and 8 doctoral students at the start, and 30
masters and 25 doctoral students in steady state. There is no anticipated effect on
enrollments of existing majors.
Employment Implications
Contact with industry professionals has indicated a strong need for technical employees
with management training at the master’s level. As already mentioned, Cisco has
expressed great interest and enthusiasm. The notion of industry relevant research that is
incorporated into the curriculum has great appeal. Cisco views this model as being of
great value and interest to the firm and Directors moving up to the VP level, using their
TIM training. Cisco further likes the TIM focus on technology clusters and has made
referrals to firms in the same industry such as Caspian Networks and JDS Uniphase.
A similar program at Carnegie Mellon University (designed by Prof. Akella) has had an
excellent response at the doctoral level, with outstanding placement in faculty positions at
top schools.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Offerings
UC Berkeley (Haas and Engineering) has the Management of Technology Program. UCB
also has a School for Information Management Systems. UC Davis (School of
Management) offers an undergraduate Management of Technology. UC Irvine has a
program more targeted at Information Systems. UC San Diego is currently developing a
School of Management with stronger coupling between engineering and management.
However, our program has a somewhat different focus, in engineering, with all the
advantage of complementary in-depth technology training, and provides unique
opportunities to synthesize skills between engineering and management in a way that is
unique and novel. We have initiated discussions with several of the deans of the other
campuses for inputs and potential collaboration.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
2007-08: Proposal undergoes campus review
2008: Seek system-wide approval for program
2008-09: Admit first cohort of students formally
Current Status
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The program proposal is under campus review.
Campus Spokesperson
Pat Mantey, Professor and Director, Technology and Information Management, Baskin
Engineering, mantey@soe.ucsc.edu, (831) 459-2720.
VISUAL ART M.F.A.
Description and Reason for Establishment
The M.F.A. will integrate theory and practice to explore the power of visual
communication. Courses and project groups will foster critical thinking, an awareness of
contemporary theory and art history. A focus on art as visual communication will address
ways that students’ work can make an impact on the sites, institutions, and audiences
where the work is presented and experienced.
This program is in response to a national need for more culturally and socially relevant
approaches to graduate art education, as well as an outgrowth of the strengths and
diversity of the present art faculty. Social content and context have become increasingly
important as dissolution of dominant ideologies gave way to works that cannot be clearly
categorized by materials and forms. The goal of the program is to educate graduates to
contribute effectively to developments in the arts as well as in other disciplines that use
the visual arts as a means for investigation and communication. A distinctive feature of
this program is our approach to identifying overlapping areas of emphasis based on the
context of art production. The methods available will be identified by the subject of
exploration and how the work communicates to an audience. We will encourage art
production that can make a conscious difference in a variety of public contexts such as
galleries and museums, civic and community spaces, and the internet. Our program
would generate cross media dialogue to address more relevant issues in contemporary art.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs
Digital arts and new media are integrated into the visual arts graduate curriculum. As an
interdisciplinary graduate program, the new Digital Arts and New Media (DANM)
M.F.A. will serve as a node of activities for students interested in electronic media.
DANM graduate students interested in integrating electronic media into sculpture or
installation contexts will be able to enroll in the graduate visual arts seminars and
colloquia and interact with the visual arts faculty. At least two Art faculty will teach in
both programs.
Points of intersection between visual art mediums and stage design or sound as an
element in three dimensional work, installation, and performance art provides potential
for collaboration between students and faculty in these areas.
Resources
Provision is made in the draft campus strategic academic plan for three additional
provisions in Art (Art Theory/Curation, Photographic Media, 2D/Intermedia) contingent
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upon sustaining undergraduate enrollment and approval of the M.F.A. proposal. The first
of these three positions has been filled by a Presidential Post Doctoral Fellow hired this
year. The Art Department has state-of-the-art studios equipped for production in photo,
sculpture, painting, printmaking, computer and intermedia processes. We expect
completion of additional faculty research studios, offices, and teaching facilities as part of
an Arts major capital construction project, the Digital Arts Facility, by the time this
program is initiated. New faculty studios will release existing studios for graduate student
use.
Funding
Fellowship and grant support for Fine Arts Graduate programs in the UC system
averaged $5,890 per graduate FTE. We reasonably assume students will receive base-line
support of $3,000 per graduate FTE from block grants. TAships will be available with a
regular complement of salary and subsidy (i.e., GSHIP and tuition fee remission).
Students
The M.F.A. will accept 12 students per year, for a total of 24 students at any one time.
Employment of Graduates
As visual literacy becomes ever more critical for navigating a world saturated with
images, artists can provide leadership in many areas such as education, city arts
commissions, and museum outreach programs. Our graduates should be competitive as
educators, artists, designers, and curators, in the cultural and entertainment industry.
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions Offering Similar Programs
UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, US San Diego,
California College of the Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Mills College, San
Francisco Art Institute, CSU San Francisco, CSU San Jose, and Stanford all offer M.F.A.
programs with an emphasis on professional development in the studio arts. All programs
include traditional studio arts. Most have core courses of study and encourage an
interdisciplinary approach to art practice, but in contrast to our program, are structured by
media categories. We will emphasize the content and context of art production as an
alternative in the highly competitive area of graduate admissions.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
Proposal revisions and campus review – 2007-08
System-wide review – 2008-09
Final Approval, and recruitment of students – 2009-10
Admission of students – Fall 2010
Current Status
The department is re-evaluating the proposal in the light of comments from a recent ERC
report and site visits to other campuses.
Campus Contact Person
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Professor and Department Chair Elizabeth Stephens, Art Department, Baskin Visual Arts,
estephe@ucsc.edu, phone: 831-212-8384;
fax: 831-459-3793.
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
Description of and Reasons for Anticipated Action
A proposal to establish a School of Management providing instructional programs
leading to the MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD degrees.
Two of the major conclusions of the February 2005 WASC Visiting Team Educational
Effectiveness Review of UCSC were that the campus needed to make the addition of
professional schools and degree programs a priority and that it was essential for the
campus to expand into Silicon Valley. As a first step in concretizing these proposals an
“Educational Opportunity and Workforce Development Study” (EOWDS) was
commissioned by the campus and completed in March 2005. This study concluded that
UCSC School of Management with a significant presence in Silicon Valley was both
feasible and desirable.
Building upon this positive initial analysis, Campus Provost and Executive Vice
Chancellor David Kliger appointed a campus-wide Steering Committee to investigate the
structure of a UCSC professional School of Management in March 2006. The charge to
the committee was to identify and recommend the “intellectual focus of a UCSC School
of Management that would serve to guide the school’s educational offerings and research
direction” and “provide an assessment of the programmatic structure, resource needs and
potential sources of funds for a school of management.”
In June 2006 the Steering Committee presented its initial findings. The committee
concluded that there is a clear need for a UCSC School of Management in Silicon Valley
to meet shifting regional and global demands. Specifically, the Committee concluded:
o A UCSC School of Management should center its mission on interdisciplinary
clusters in globalization, technology, and innovation and entrepreneurship. These
core research areas would create synergies with existing areas of faculty strengths at
UCSC and would guide the development of an innovative SOM curriculum.
o UCSC has the potential to launch a School of Management that integrates Silicon
Valley strengths (innovation, entrepreneurship, a culturally and ethnically diverse
workforce, and international engagement) with UCSC expertise (globalization,
technology management, information technology and knowledge engineering,
leadership, international trade and finance, and cultural diversity). The combination
would create world-class management training, integrating leadership, ethics, global
thinking, management skills, and technology innovation.
o The curriculum would reflect the need to train students in the core analytic areas
of management education, combined with a broad, interdisciplinary focus on
globalization, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. The ultimate outcome
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will be leaders prepared for culturally diverse yet globally networked organizations,
whether for profit or non-profit, regionally-centered or globally-focused, in
established or emerging technology sectors.
o UCSC has the opportunity to create a school that will serve as a gateway
institution both within the region and globally — serving as a nexus for local and
global talent, cross-disciplinary research, business-university partnerships, global
leadership and local entrepreneurship and innovation. This opportunity is reflected
in growing demand for management education in Silicon Valley and the unique
combination of world-class research, teaching and collaboration that a UCSC
School of Management could provide.
While many business schools and management programs exist in Silicon Valley, UCSC
has the unique opportunity to create the first school for Silicon Valley, one that
incorporates the core characteristics associated with the area – innovation,
entrepreneurship, a culturally and ethnically diverse workforce, and international
engagement. Initial finding by consultants charged by the Steering Committee with
gauging the depth of support among Silicon Valley companies demonstrate a clear need
for new types of managers, educated to participate in a globalized and culturally diverse
world.
In August 2007, the campus administration appointed Nirvikar Singh, Professor of
Economics, in an advisory role to further develop the proposal for the School of
Management. Working with other facets of UCSC’s Silicon Valley Initiatives, including
the University Affiliated Research Center and the School of Engineering programs in
technology management, Professor Singh has taken the following steps additional to the
Steering Committee report:
o Several specific sectors or focus areas have been identified for the proposed school,
consistent with the broad themes of globalization, innovation and entrepreneurship. i.e.,
intellectual property rights, biotechnology, ‘green tech,’ knowledge-based services, and
health care.
o A strong academic advisory group has been created. Membership includes
distinguished faculty from New York University, Stanford University, Northwestern
University, and three other UC campuses, as well as UCSC. It includes a Nobel
Prize winner as well as several faculty with significant administrative experience.
The group has agreed to help shape the intellectual vision of the proposed school, to
make it a cutting-edge institution for research, education and practice.
o Outreach to the private sector in Silicon Valley has been increased, including
larger firms, small entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The Silicon Valley
Leadership Group is assisting UCSC in communicating directly with some of their
key member firms, to begin collaborative planning for the proposed School of
Management. Corporate responses to the proposed school and its conceptualization
have been extremely positive.
o Outreach has also begun in organizing events (such as lectures, workshops and
panels) designed to increase UCSC’s intellectual footprint in Silicon Valley, and
showcase its faculty expertise in areas related to the planned foci of the proposed
School of Management.
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o Carnegie Mellon University (West) has responded favorably to partnering with
UCSC for specific course offerings in graduate management education. These
offerings will allow UCSC to test the market and round out existing and planned
offerings of the School of Engineering in technology management.
Therefore, the experience and interactions subsequent to the Steering Committee report
support the view that a UCSC School of Management has an important positive role to
play in graduate education in Silicon Valley. The proposed school can successfully
conform to the successful US educational and program benchmarks, teaching the
analytical fundamentals of management while providing students with skills that will
enable them to operate effectively in heterogeneous, fast-changing business
environments. A UCSC School of Management would, consistent with Santa Cruz
traditions, promote the type of interdisciplinary focus that is needed to address the
complex problems and issues faced in today’s managerial environment. Consequently,
the school would, in its initial structure avoid the fragmentation that can arise from
programs organized around separate departmental entities. The degrees anticipated to be
offered would include the MBA, Executive MBA, and the Ph.D.
Relationship to Existing Campus Programs, Units, and Mission
Because this proposal is for a new school, one to have a major physical presence in the
Silicon Valley, its development is not directly linked to existing academic divisions
within the campus. However, a new School of Management would be able to partner
internally with programs and faculty in all the academic divisions. UCSC strengths in
bio-informatics, environmental science and policy, intellectual property, cultural
diversity, and globalization can offer perspectives on innovation and management from
the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. The campus is home to leading
cross-disciplinary, social sciences research centers, such as the Center for Global,
International and Regional Studies (CGIRS) and the Santa Cruz Center for International
Economics (SCCIE). The Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering actively
unites biology, chemistry and engineering expertise to continue UCSC’s tradition of
innovative research in new biological and biomedical questions resulting from genome
sequencing and advances in biotechnology. Faculty in the humanities and social sciences
are also engaging in exploring the cultural implications of technology. In fact, School of
Management’s core themes, its organizational DNA, center on interdisciplinary clusters
in globalization, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship which align closely with
the campus’s tradition of promoting interdisciplinary research.
Currently, the largest major at UCSC is Business Management Economics (BME),
offered within the Economics Department; Economics currently awards 13.6% of the
total undergraduate degrees at UCSC, with 442 degrees conferred in 2005-06. A School
of Management would open the possibility to expand undergraduate offerings in
management areas that would complement the existing BME major. The proposed school
would also provide a pathway for UCSC graduates who wish to acquire a UC-quality
professional management education while staying in Silicon Valley. It is also the case
that a high proportion of UCSC BME majors are minority students, and they could be
especially benefited by the proposed school. The proposed Technology and Information
Management (TIM) graduate program in the Baskin School of Engineering (SoE) sees
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the potential for close collaboration with a School of Management. TIM faculty already
offer a successful undergraduate program (Information Systems Management) with 50-70
declared majors, and many of these students, like the BME students, would be eager to
add courses or internships through a School of Management. Also within the Baskin
School, the Computer Communications Research Group, the Storage Systems Center,
and the Database Research Group have the potential for synergies with a School of
Management.
Joint appointments between the School of Management and departments in the existing
academic divisions can strengthen both the new school and existing programs. For
example, the need to teach business ethics offers the possibility of recruiting a
philosopher in applied ethics as a joint appointment with the Philosophy department. A
modern School of Management is likely to recruit behavioral economists who could
partner with the faculty in the Economics department to create a critical mass in that area
that would not be feasible otherwise.
Resources and Funding
The committee’s preliminary financial analysis suggests a world-class program is
affordable if it develops the appropriate mix of state-funded and fee-based enrollments.
Launching a School of Management will require financial support external to UCSC,
primarily to help meet the costs of obtaining a building to house the school in Silicon
Valley and transitional costs as the school builds to steady state. External resources from
corporations, private individuals and foundations will play a key role in the growth of the
School of Management.
Building upon the Steering Committee findings, including the interviews and focus
groups of the consultants, the campus is also in the process of forming an external
advisory board to oversee planning for the School. This board will be comprised mainly
of corporate and government leaders, with some academic representation drawn from the
new advisory group. The board will be charged in part with identifying the specific
resource needs the School of Management will have. A major task of the board will be to
identify the funding sources for each of the needed resources, e.g. state and federal funds,
foundations, gifts, fees, etc. Obtaining adequate financial support will require major
private fundraising efforts on the part of the campus, and will feature prominently in the
advisory board’s mandate.
Students
At this stage, estimates of the initial or eventual size of a School of Management are
preliminary, but the table below offers one possible scenario for growth. These numbers
are consistent with the size of the campus, the constraints of the Silicon Valley site, and
projected regional demand. As the table indicates, a School of Management is likely to
offer both degree and non-degree programs, and within these categories, there will be
both state-funded and fee-funded components. Given the very successful Business
Management Economics program that already exists on campus, planning for any
eventual undergraduate program in a School of Management would need to be carefully
coordinated with the Economics department.
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UCSC School of Management Enrollment Projections: Rapid Build-out
YEAR
1
2
3
4
5
0
100
10
110
200
40
240
350
125
18
143
220
60
285
428
175
28
203
260
80
340
543
STEADY
STATE
200
35
235
300
100
400
635
200
19
250
23
350
29
450
34
State-Funded MBA
State-Funded Ph.D.
Subtotal State-Funded Students
Fee-Funded Fully Employed MBA
Fee-Funded Executive MBA
Subtotal Fee-Funded MBA Students
TOTAL DEGREE STUDENTS
0
50
25
75
75
50
5
55
100
35
135
190
Fee-Funded Non-Degree Executive Education
Faculty FTE (@ 18.7/1 Student-Faculty Ratio)
100
4
150
11
Employment of Graduates
Both the external finding of the consultants hired by the Steering Committee and the
internal EOWDS study concluded that, at present, existing programs in the Bay Area are
insufficient to accommodate the supply of highly qualified candidates for MBA programs
or to meet the demand by local firms for MBA graduates. As the EOWDS study stated
“existing MBA programs do a relatively good job of educating their students in basic
functions and processes, but less well in teaching their graduates interpersonal skills, realtime decision-making, recognition of contexts, and integrating across functional areas.
The ability to operate in global business environments is also under-taught in typical
programs.” The pace and scale of change in the form of new technology, globalization
and diversity create a need for new types of management graduates both in training
(managing across cultures, leadership and negotiation in such contexts, and collaborative
management) and in diversity (recruiting women and under-represented minorities.)
UC Campuses and Other California Institutions With Similar Offerings
Currently, all other UC campus except Merced, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco have
active professional schools of management. However, UC Merced is in the process of
developing the Ernest & Julio Gallo School of Management, and Santa Barbara has the
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, though it does not offer an
MBA degree. In the immediate area of Silicon Valley, Stanford, Santa Clara University,
and San Jose State University have management/business graduate programs. In addition,
the Haas School at UC Berkeley is nearby. UC Davis’s management school is now
offering part time MBA programs in a location in the San Ramon Valley in an attempt to
tap into the urban sprawl that has spread east from the Bay Area. Stanford does not offer
a part-time or evening degree program. Wharton offers an Executive MBA program in
San Francisco known as Wharton West. Carnegie Mellon University maintains a small
outpost at the NASA Ames site that appears to offer some project experience for students
guided by adjunct faculty, though not with full offerings as at Wharton West for example,
and Pepperdine has recently launched a Silicon Valley Graduate Campus in Santa Clara
offering an Executive MBA program. Professor Singh is carefully reviewing current
offerings in the region, to clearly establish the differentiation and additional value that the
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proposed school would provide for meeting the future needs of Silicon Valley firms for
managers.
In any case, even with the existing offerings, the EOWDS study estimates that the Bay
Area is underserved by existing programs, with an annual shortfall of approximately
1000 graduates or 25% of Silicon Valley regional management talent demand. This
situation will persist in the short run even with the entry and growth of the UCSC School
of Management and existing regional programs.
As such, there is an opportunity for UCSC to serve the needs of the Silicon Valley region
by establishing a new management program that provides core functional training
combined with knowledge of leadership and innovation in a global and diverse
environment. This opportunity also opens interesting avenues for collaborations with
other UC campuses. This will maximize the benefits that the UC system can provide the
state of California through new management education efforts in Silicon Valley. The
Silicon Valley location will be a critical advantage in this respect, as UCSC can serve as
a hub for all the other UC management schools to access Silicon Valley for research and
teaching.
Anticipated Campus Review and Implementation Dates
2006-07 preliminary planning and consultations; proposal preparation
2007-08 formal campus review
2008-09 formal off-campus review
2009-10 advertise and admissions
2010-11 first student majors enroll
Current Status
An executive committee was charged by the Chancellor and Executive Vice Chancellor
in early 2006 and submitted a report in June 2006. Based on this report, the campus is
refining the intellectual vision, and its estimates of the financial resources needed for the
School. Most importantly, the campus is in the process of formally engaging with Silicon
Valley leaders to ensure the proposed School meets the needs of region. The campus has
formed an academic advisory group, and will create an external advisory board in 2008,
while a formal proposal for on- and off-campus review is developed.
Campus Contact Person
Nirvikar Singh
Special Advisor to the Chancellor
Professor of Economics
Campus Mailing Address: Economics Department
E-mail address: nirvikar@ucsc.ed
Telephone number: 831-459-4093
Fax number: 831-459-5077
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ATTACHMENT IV
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANY TRANSFER, CONSOLIDATION,
DISCONTINUANCE, OR DISESTABLISHMENT ACTIONS UNDER
CONSIDERATION
DEGREE PROGRAMS
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