SUBJECT:

Final Report of Task Force on K-12 Outreach

As Co-Chairs of the UCSD Task Force on K-12 Outreach, we are compiling
a list of faculty who would like to be affiliated through their
research, teaching, and/or service activities with the proposed Center
for Research in Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching
Excellence (CREATE). As you can see in the Executive Summary (below),
your involvement could be with any of the five components of CREATE:
Research, K-12 Partnerships, Model School, Outreach, or Teacher
Education. If you would like to be included on a list of interested
faculty, please notify Drake by email at pdrake@weber.ucsd.edu as soon
as possible. If you should have any questions, feel free to contact
either one of us.

Paul Drake Task Force Co-Chair Nicholas Spitzer Task Force Co-Chair

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Report of the UCSD Task Force on K-12 Outreach: Executive Summary

The UCSD Task Force on K-12 Outreach recommends a comprehensive,
multi-pronged approach to increasing the numbers of underrepresented
students who achieve eligibility, enroll, flourish, and graduate at
UCSD and other UC caliber universities. We will do so by creating and
expanding pipelines from K-12 to the University. Our plan has six
main components.

  1. Establish a Center for Research in Educational Equity,
Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) to integrate and promote
UCSD's K-12 efforts. Assign it the job of coordinating and evaluating
the other five elements in this proposal. Appoint a faculty Director
and a staff Outreach Coordinator to lead CREATE.

  2. Strengthen UCSD's existing outreach, recruitment, and retention
programs. Improve their coordination, assessment, and funding.

  3. Promote Partnerships between UCSD and the community:

   a) Expand current Partnerships to include subject matter
training and establish new Cluster Partnerships encompassing the
entire K-12 sequence. Appoint a Partnership Coordinator to spearhead
these efforts and seek additional funding. Maintain the UCSD/K-12
Partnership Committee.

   b) Launch the San Diego Alliance of Colleges and the Community
for Educational and Scholastic Success (ACCESS) to build a
community-wide coalition, an intersegmental Partnership, including
UCSD, San Diego State University, the Community Colleges, the
University of San Diego, the K-12 schools, and others to enhance the
pre-college preparation of underrepresented students.

  4. Found a Model School on the UCSD campus under Charter School
legislation as a beacon for educational achievement. Enroll students
in grades 6-to-12. Through interaction with the Partnerships and
other components of CREATE, use the School to pioneer new educational
research and techniques to produce more students for UCSD. Fund it
with monies from the school district and off-campus donors.

  5. Expand UCSD research on educational issues, broadly defined.
Allocate three-to-four faculty positions in this field over the next
four-to-five years. Nurture an Organized Research Unit on education
and development.

  6. Amplify teacher education and professional development programs,
especially those focused on disciplinary subject matter.

We further recommend rigorous and regular assessment of all these
programs. And we urge reviewers of academic files to give due credit
to faculty involved in K-12 activities. The scope of what we can
achieve in all the above programs will be determined by the new monies
that can be generated. We believe that the costs to UCSD of all the
above recommendations will be achievable and sustainable, and far
outweighed by the benefits to UCSD, K-12 education, students, and the
community.

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   NOTE: Copies of the Task Force report have been distributed by
   Academic Senate Chair Fanestil to the Representative
   Assembly and the members of the Senate committees that will
   be reviewing the proposal. In addition, the full report and
   appendices may be viewed on the Task Force web site,
   accessed through the UCSD home page (www.ucsd.edu). If you
   would like to obtain a hard copy, please notify Ms. Barbara
   Beard in Campus Planning at extension 43471.