ABSTRACT
Faculty members had a tremendous amount of motivation, which they used to implement the hedgehog concept of becoming the best university system in the world, a goal about which both faculty and administration have been passionate. The three circles of the "hedgehog concept"—"what you can be the best in the world at…what drives your economic engine…what you are deeply passionate about" — intersected to produce the institution of iconic stature that is the University of California (UC). These principles were affirmed when the California Master Plan for Higher Education, which provided a formula for the state's public institutions of higher learning to combine selectivity and access, allowed the UC to develop and implement its "hedgehog concept" of an elite public research university system. As a result, the UC has "catered to the better-off classes and the white majority".
