September 2025
Universities
Changes in California State University General Fund Spending
2025-26 Changes (In Millions)
| 2024-25 Revised Spending | $5,494a |
| Ongoing Spending | |
| Pension cost increase | $123 |
| Retiree health benefit cost increase | 78 |
| Unrestricted base increase | 75 |
| Capital Fellows salary increase | 1 |
| Drug testing devices at campusesb | —c |
| CENIC cost increased | —c |
| Subtotal | ($277) |
| One-Time Spending | |
| Sonoma State University turnaround plane | $45 |
| Tides Foundation reportf | 6 |
| Genealogy determinations | 6 |
| Assistance to low-enrollment campusese | 5 |
| Customer relations management software | 3 |
| CSU Northridge Student Success and Inclusion Center infrastructure | 1 |
| Subtotal | ($66) |
| Other Adjustments | |
| May/June payment deferral | -144 |
| Remove 2024-25 one-time funding | -6 |
| Subtotal | (-$149) |
| Total | $194 |
| 2025-26 Enacted Spending | $5,688 |
| a Includes one-time funding of $596,000 for wildfire recovery efforts. | |
| b Budget provides $345,000 ongoing General Fund to support the costs of recently chaptered legislation that requires CSU to provide drug testing devices at every on-campus health center. | |
| c Less than $500,000. | |
| d The 2021-22 budget agreement included a five-year plan for covering higher CENIC charges. The annual funding increase in 2025-26 is $158,000. After accounting for increases provided the previous four years, ongoing funding for this purpose has been raised by $846,000 over the 2020-21 level. | |
| e Funding is included in Control Section 19.56. | |
| f The report is intended to educate Californians on the findings of the California Reparations Task Force report. | |
| CENIC = Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California. | |