The 2016-17 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Zero-Textbook-Cost Proposal

Mar 14, 2016 - Figure 1 Many Organizations Across the Country Provide Access to OER OpenStax College (Rice University) Nonprofit organization publishing open textbooks for 20 gateway college courses (including biology, chemistry, macro – and micro –economics , sociology, United States history, and anatomy and physiology).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392

The 2016-17 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 26, 2016 - The Chancellor ’s Office would use this funding to: (1)  expand partnership resource teams to more than 300 experts, (2)  respond to an anticipated 30 technical assistance requests from colleges and districts, (3)  develop separate communities of practice for institutions that recently received team visits, and (4)  develop “micro teams ” of experts to provide short –term , follow –up technical assistance on specific topics.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3372

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