Designing the Master Plan for Colorado Postsecondary Education: Preparing for a New Millennium.

Overview & Synopsis

This document represents the first step in an effort by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education to reopen the master planning process. The report: (1) proposes a master planning process, which in various steps will revisit Colorado's goals for postsecondary education; (2) reviews how well the Commission and the postsecondary education community have responded to the challenges set out in House Bill 1187 (passed in 1985 charging the Commission to establish a broad and ambitious set of expectations for the Commission and the postsecondary education community); (3) examines the environment facing Colorado postsecondary education as it approaches the 21st century; and (4) examines in depth how the state must respond to the most pressing issues facing postsecondary education in the years ahead. Finally, the appendix examines the nature of possible issues that could be addressed with respect to each of the explicit statewide goals for postsecondary education: the pursuit of higher educational quality; expanding educational access and diversity; and increasing educational efficiency accountability. (GLR)