The Co-Ordinating Council for Higher Education in California: A Review of its First Two Years
O N DECEMBER i8, 1959, the Regents of the University of California and the State Board of Education, in one of the few joint sessions in the history of the state, "approved in general principle" the recommendations for the Master Plan for Higher Education in California as developed by their joint Liaison Committee.' The plan had been constructed by a team made up of two representatives each of the University of California, the California state colleges, the California public junior colleges, and the private colleges and universities of the state. The recommendations which required legislative action were considered in a special session of the I960 Legislature called by Governor Edmund G. Brown for that purpose. After extended consideration, the Donahoe Higher Education Act, which incorporates them with little modification, was enacted into law. Among other things, it includes-