Re: New TARS Library area on site


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Posted by Dave Thewlis on July 09, 2005 at 16:32:21 from 69.107.143.251 user dthewlis.

In Reply to: Re: New TARS Library area on site posted by Jim McDowell on July 09, 2005 at 13:21:28:

It helps to know that the community 2-year colleges issue "associate" degrees, whereas the four-year institutions issue (at least) Bachelor degrees and possibly post-graduate Master or Doctoral degrees. All UC campuses have Doctoral programs; I believe that of the State University campuses some do offer Doctoral degrees, and some only offer Masters programs.

A number of years ago a proposal was seriously considered to formally split the burden between the three tiers: the junior/community colleges would offer all of the lower-division education in state schools; the State University schools would offer all higher-division and possibly some postgraduate programs; the University of California campuses would only offer post-graduate Masters and Doctoral programs. The rationale was in part that the undergraduate programs in the UC campuses were awfully crammed and very impersonal and what they did best was postgraduate and research anyhow, but mostly that it would have each tier doing what it "did best". Ultimately the proposal didn't go anywhere - a lot having to do with the relative prestige of the schools, and the perceived quality of education available at the various tiers.


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