The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - Moreover, each of the segments is required to track its learning outcomes, including its equity gaps. Furthermore, the community college formula for allocating state funding takes into account the outcomes of low-income students, such that colleges have a fiscal incentive to improve the outcomes of these students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - From fall 2019 to fall 2024, the systemwide average salary increased by 25  percent for tenured and tenure ‑track faculty, while it increased by 20  percent for classified support staff. For comparison, the California consumer price index increased by an estimated 23  percent during this time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - UC Reserve Levels Generally Have Tracked With Broader Fiscal Factors. As Figure  6 shows, UC core fund balances as a share of its annual core fund expenditures have been as low as 1.8  percent in 2008 ‑09 and as high as 23  percent in 2012 ‑13.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Largely consistent with intent language the state adopted in the 2025 ‑26  Budget  Act , the Governor ’s budget increases base General  Fund support for the universities by nearly $1   billion ongoing General Fund in 2026 ‑27.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Generally consistent with how institutions across the nation have been tracking equity gaps, CSU continues to measure the gap in graduation rates of American Indian/Alaska Native, Black/African American, and Hispanic/Latino students compared to their peers.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Trends in Higher Education [Publication Details]

Apr 30, 2025 - The first is to help legislators, staff, and the general public track many of the key changes that higher education has undergone over the past few decades. The second is to help legislators better navigate the future.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5071

The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - In addition to the three main tests, the Constitution requires the state to track an obligation known as maintenance factor. The state creates maintenance factor when Test  3 is operative or the Legislature suspends the guarantee.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

The 2026-27 Budget: Nonresident Tuition Rates at UC

May 12, 2026 - T. (2008). “ Non ‑resident Enrollment and Non ‑resident Tuition at Land Grant Colleges and Universities . ” Education Economics , 16 (1): 75 ‑88. Curs, B. R., & Jaquette, O. (2017). “ Crowded Out? The Effect of Nonresident Enrollment on Resident Access to Public Research Universities . ” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 39 (4): 644 ‑669.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5183

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

Nov 7, 2024 - When UC Merced opened for undergraduate instruction in fall 2005, the campus employed 45 FTE tenured/tenure ‑track faculty members and 19 nontenure ‑track faculty members (mostly lecturers). By fall 2023, the campus employed 275 FTE tenured/tenure ‑track faculty members and 153 nontenure ‑track faculty members.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

Evaluation of CSU's Doctor of Nursing Practice Pilot Program

Jan 5, 2017 - In 2008, the advisory committee released a study concluding that (1)  more tenure –track faculty were needed to meet the current and projected demand for additional nurses in the state and (2) CSU had sufficient institutional interest and capacity to prepare more faculty by establishing a doctoral program in nursing.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3521