UC Davis Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef will help the University of California develop strategies to meet its goal of adding at least 11,000 graduate students over the next decade.

Vanderhoef has been named to the new Commission on the Growth and Support of Graduate Education that will report by next summer on steps UC should take to expand its graduate and professional enrollments and in-crease financial support for graduate-level students.

The 22-member panel, appointed last week by UC Board of Regents Chair S. Sue Johnson and UC President Richard C. Atkinson, comprises regents, faculty, students and administrators and will be co-chaired by Johnson and C. Judson King, UC provost and senior vice president for academic affairs.

Graduate enrollments have been virtually level for decades, while undergraduate enrollments have doubled over the past 30 years. As a result, the proportion of graduate students at UC has fallen from 30 percent of total enrollment in 1965 to just 17 percent today.

UC plans to increase its graduate enrollments from 27,000 full-time-equivalent students to at least 37,900 over the next decade.