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Given the University of California's commitment to the goal of enabling increasing numbers of educationally and socioeconomically underserved students to become eligible for and enrolled at a UC campus, over the past three decades UC has developed and sponsored literally hundreds of programs and services entailing academic and motivational outreach to targeted K-12 students.
Following a review of the effectiveness of these programs (including academic enrichment and support, counseling, parental involvement, and informational activities), the UC Outreach Task Force issued a draft report in June 1997 calling for all of the UC campuses to expand their School-centered Partnerships, Academic Development Programs, and Informational Outreach activities.
Consistent with those University-wide recommendations, local efforts have been ongoing to review the dozens of existing Academic Intervention and Outreach Programs. In addition, several members of both the campus and Greater San Diego communities recently focussed on a specific proposal to develop a UCSD Charter High School (authored chiefly by Professors Cecil Lytle and Hugh Mehan).
After careful consideration by a number of committees of the UCSD Academic Senate in 1996-97, and following an advisory vote of the membership of the Senate which recommended against advancement of that specific proposal, UCSD Chancellor Robert Dynes urged the campus community to continue its commitment to enhance preparatory public education in San Diego (see the June 10, 1997 remarks of Chancellor Dynes to the Academic Senate).
Shortly thereafter, Chancellor Dynes and Professor Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Chair of the UCSD Academic Senate, jointly appointed the UCSD Task Force on K-12 Outreach to generate a proposal for a significant, new initiative to improve the academic preparation of underserved K-12 students in San Diego and ultimately enable those students to flourish after enrollment at a UC caliber campus.
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