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College Major Restrictions and Student Stratification (2021)

Using first-term course enrollments to identify students who intend to earn restricted majors, this study finds that major restrictions disproportionately lead URM students from their intended major toward less-lucrative fields, driving within-institution ethnic stratification and likely exacerbating labor market disparities.
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Recovery with Equity: A Roadmap for Higher Education After the Pandemic (2021)

How do we upskill, re-skill, and re-engage displaced workers in the short term? How can we close equity gaps and promote success for students of color and adult learners? What will it take to develop the talent that will drive the state’s recovery and diversify the workforce at all levels? The California Recovery with Equity Taskforce wrestled with these important questions.
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Faculty Perspectives on Race and Gender Equity – A Conversation with Academic Senate Leaders (Webinar)

Academic senate leaders discuss their views on racial equity for students in public higher education, and the role that faculty and others can play in advancing racial and gender equity. Dr. Davison i...
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Keeping the Promise: A Review of the Master Plan and California’s Higher Education System (2020)

This report summarizes the testimony from the five hearings and highlights the first two years of the Select Committee’s information gathering phase. The report also includes key findings that originated from testimony as well as policy themes.
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STEM Vital Signs Data

U.S. Business leaders cannot find the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent they need to stay competitive. Students’ lagging performance in K–12 is a critical reason why. Years of hard work have improved K-12 student performance in math and science, but not fast enough. Programs in STEMworks, CTEq’s honor roll of STEM education programs that have proven their effectiveness, have the potential to address these and other challenges in states across the country.
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The Master Plan for Higher Education in California and State Workforce Needs: A Review (2019)

In this report, OPR identifies cross-segmental strategies to increase higher education enrollment and completion, improve re-skilling opportunities for adults, and better align academic programs with regional workforce demands. In addition, this report seeks to summarize the policy conversations, both historical and current, surrounding the Master Plan and higher education in order to provide a foundation for further thinking about how California can meet the changing needs of its students and economy.
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Examination of Data Usability Options for Assessing Eligibility for Higher Education in California (2018)

This commissioned report examines whether federal reporting data submitted to the California Department of Education by local education agencies could be utilized as a surrogate for individual transcript data in future UC/CSU eligibility studies.
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University Eligibility Study for the Public High School Class of 2015 (2017)

RTI International conducted the 2015 University Eligibility study to estimate the percentage of public high school graduates who meet the freshman admission requirements for the University of California (UC) and California State University (CSU) systems.
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STEM: Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce (2011)

This report discusses how Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) occupations are critical to our continued economic competitiveness because of their direct ties to innovation, economic productivity, even though they will only be 5 percent of all jobs in the United States economy by 2018. It also highlights racial and gender inequities in STEM.
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