The plan also calls for moving ahead with planning for a 10th UC campus and the expansion of academic programs in the San Joaquin Valley and placing special emphasis on repairing and renovating aging buildings. The budget plan, presented at the Board of Regents meeting Thursday in Sacramento, calls for a 6 percent increase in state funding for next year, consistent with the governor's compact for higher education. The Regents will consider adoption of the plan at their meeting in November. The center piece of the technology effort is the development of the California Digital Library, which initially will develop computer links among the libraries within UC and then expand to include materials from other schools and museums, both public and private. In keeping with the Regents' decision to seek new paths to diversity, a major effort will be made to implement an ambitious plan to attract more students from all backgrounds to the University.
Efforts are also under way to attract additional private and matching funds from public schools.
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