UC President Robert Dynes has asked a 17-member Eligibility and Admissions Study Group to examine the undergraduate eligibility and admissions implementation issues that UC will face through 2010.

Dynes has instructed the study group to keep in mind "the historic tradition of shared governance in which admissions is the prerogative of the faculty" and advise the Academic Senate and the Board of Regents in March on:

• Eligibility policies and criteria and related issues related to the forthcoming California Postsecondary Education Commission study;
• Implementation of existing regental eligibility and admissions policies; and
• Methods to achieve greater efficiencies in admissions policies, including ways to communicate with the public more clearly about selection practices.

Regent Joanne Corday Kozberg will co-chair the group with Senior Vice President of University Affairs Bruce Darling.

Dynes said the study group should keep in mind that:

• UC is a public institution with a unique mission, which includes that it "encompasses the broad diversity of backgrounds characteristic of California";
• The quality of UC must be maintained and the university must remain competitive;
• UC has an obligation to increase the transparency of the admissions process and to measure the academic impact of all facets of comprehensive review; and
• Comprehensive review is a must.

For more details, see: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/compreview/update.html.