 The Plan set up a coherent system for postsecondary education which defined specific roles for the already-existing University of California (UC), the California State "College" (CSC) system of senior colleges, now California State "University" (CSU), and the California Community Colleges system (CCC).The statutory framework implementing the plan was signed into law as the Donahoe Higher Education Act (honoring Assemblywoman Dorothy M. Donahoe, one of the plan's foremost advocates) by Brown on April 27, 1960.Prior to the Master Plan's development in the 1960s, California struggled to reform its social institutions.