The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - Based on the system ’s most recent five-year capital outlay plan, these sites have a combined 87  million square feet of building space. This includes academic space (such as classrooms, laboratories, and libraries) as well as nonacademic space (such as parking structures, bookstores, and cafeterias).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2025-26 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 18, 2025 - Based on the system ’s most recent five-year capital outlay plan, these sites have a combined 87  million square feet of building space. This includes both academic space (such as classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and faculty offices) and nonacademic space (such as parking structures, bookstores, and cafeterias).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5017

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Space utilization CDCR and CCC report a lack of sufficient space to hold in ‑person courses, yet CDCR lacks a comprehensive assessment of its space utilization. Adopt statutory space and utilization standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

Trends in Higher Education: Facilities [Publication Details]

Apr 30, 2025 - This is the final brief of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. This brief focuses on higher education facilities. The brief includes key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5037

The 2021-22 Budget: University Capital Outlay

Mar 5, 2021 - The proposed space at Merced, however, also includes a significant amount of research space and adds many more faculty offices, as shown in Figure  3 . The inclusion of research space is what makes the overall cost of the project ($ 210  m illion) so high —more than double the Riverside medical school project.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4395

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

Nov 7, 2024 - Prior to the second phase of the campus ’s build ‑out, UC Merced ’s utilization of its classroom spaces was generally close to reaching legislative standards whereas its utilization of teaching laboratory spaces exceeded those standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2016-17 Budget: Review of UC’s Merced Campus Expansion Proposal

Feb 10, 2016 - Increasing research activities at Merced increases costs because (1)  it increases the campus ’s overall space needs and (2)  research space is the costliest type of space to construct. UC also would incur ongoing maintenance and staffing costs for the research space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3349

The 2023-24 Budget: University of California

Feb 15, 2023 - UC  Riverside  has justification for the additional space. In UC ’s most recent utilization report (using data from fall 2018), UC Riverside was using its existing classroom space at 104  percent of legislative standards and its laboratory space at 121  percent of legislative standards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4684

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - Buildings that contain space supporting the segments ’ core academic missions. Examples of such space include classrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices. Infrastructure. Physical assets that support multiple facilities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657

Assessing UC and CSU Enrollment and Capacity

Jan 19, 2017 - UC was unable to quantify the amount of undergraduate instruction provided in research space or the capacity of that type of space. CSU, by contrast, was able to provide the number of students taught in other types of space besides classrooms and teaching labs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3532