The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major UC Proposals

Feb 2, 2022 - Referral Pools. UC refers students who are not admitted to their campuses of choice to less selective campuses. UC Merced is UC ’s sole referral campus for freshman applicants, and UC Merced and UC Riverside are UC ’s referral campuses for transfer students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

Overview of Mental Health Services for College Students

Dec 10, 2021 - Campuses commonly maintain directories of community providers for referral purposes. Some campuses also provide additional support to students with the referral process, such as helping students make phone calls to providers or navigate their health insurance coverage.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4481

The 2019-20 Budget: Higher Education Analysis

Feb 21, 2019 - Currently, Merced serves as the referral campus for freshman applicants, whereas both Riverside and Merced serve as referral campuses for transfer applicants. State Budget Traditionally Includes Enrollment Targets and Provides Ongoing Funds to Support Growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3946

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - Under SCFF, apportionment costs can come in higher than projected for a number of reasons, including higher low ‑income student counts, better student outcomes, or enrollment adjustments other than growth.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Based on this data, the number of students earning any CTE award increased by 50 percent from 2015‑16 to 2023‑24. Figure 9 shows the increase by award type. During this period, the number of students earning each type of CTE award increased significantly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - CCC faculty receive a certain number of flex days so they can take time outside of teaching to pursue professional development activities, including developing new course designs, tools, and materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

The 2022-23 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2022 - Campuses could use their funds for a broad range of foster youth services, including outreach, service coordination, academic advising, career guidance, health and mental health service referrals, and financial assistance.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4537

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - The CCC system includes 72 local community college districts that operate 115 college campuses, as well as a number of off-campus centers and district offices. Based on the system ’s most recent five-year capital outlay plan, these sites have a combined 87  million square feet of building space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - As Figure  5 shows, the revamped program resulted in a sharp increase in the number of MCS recipients and the amount of spending. For the eight years in which the state implemented the original MCS program, the program gave awards to an average of about 56,000 recipients each year.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - This cost increase is primarily explained by a higher-than-expected number of Cal Grant recipients. Recipient counts in the CCC Expanded Entitlement program were notably higher than original budget assumptions (23  percent higher), as were recipient counts for the Transfer Entitlement program (14  percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089