The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Of the project proposals that districts submitted for 2025-26, 17 out of 36 eligible modernization projects (47  percent) were included in the Governor ’s budget, compared to 8 out of 14 eligible growth projects (57  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - CLSF also has increased these charges over the same period —by 7  percent in 2022 ‑23, 8  percent in 2023 ‑24, and 8  percent in 2024 ‑25. Despite the recent increases, CLSF ’s JD tuition charge remains lower than the average tuition charge of UC ’s four JD programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - In 2024 ‑25, UC estimates its total debt service costs are further increasing by $8  million (2  percent), altogether reaching $469  million. UC Has Large Seismic Safety and Capital Renewal Backlogs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

The 2024-25 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 5, 2024 - CLSF anticipates JD enrollment to decline by 8 FTE students (0.7  percent) in 2024 ‑25. The school expects this drop to be partially offset by a small anticipated increase in master ’s program enrollment (expected to grow by 5 FTE students).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4875

The 2025-26 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 28, 2025 - As Figure  8 shows, the number of authorized permanent positions at CSAC increased from 114.5 in 2014 ‑15 to 153.5 positions in 2024 ‑25. Many of CSAC ’s new positions in recent years have been to support administrative workload associated with program expansions, along with additional cybersecurity, research, and policy support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4994

The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - From 2019 ‑20 through 2024 ‑25, ongoing General Fund support for UC and CSU has seen annual increases as high as 16  percent and annual declines as deep as 8  percent. Looking at the budget plan for the universities over the next three years, state support would remain volatile, with annual ongoing General Fund increases as high as 12  percent (if state funding permitted) and
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

UC Merced at 20: Campus Developments and Key State-Level Takeaways

Nov 7, 2024 - Whereas UC enrolled an estimated 7.4  percent of California public high school graduates in 2005 ‑06, it enrolled an estimated 8  percent in 2022 ‑23. Since 2005, UC has added approximately 44,000  resident undergraduate slots.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

California Community Colleges—Managing Cash in a Time of State Payment Deferrals

Dec 18, 2020 - The state began using payment deferrals during the dot ‑com bust but relied much more heavily on them during the Great Recession. The practice of deferring college payments peaked in 2011 ‑12, when the state deferred a total of $ 961  m illion in CCC payments —accounting for nearly 30  p ercent of CCC Proposition  98 General Fund support.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4307

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 19, 2023 - Most notably, it makes awards of up to $10,000 available to in-state students enrolled in certain online teacher preparation programs based outside California, with spending on these awards capped at 8  percent of total program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4809

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons Life Without the Possibility of Parole and Death Penalty Sentences 8 6 a Data on CCC students incarcerated at CDCR are from the spring 2023 term, whereas the data on the overall CDCR population is a snapshot from October 31, 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913