Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 Less than 5 percentage points from target 6 5 to 10 percentage points from target 14 More than 10 percentage points from target 2 Disparities in Graduation Rates Across Campuses Remain Large.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - In 2025, BPPE incurred $10  million in costs associated with an employment lawsuit, consisting of a $4  million jury award to the plaintiff and $6  million in plaintiff ’s attorney fees. To cover these costs, DCA issued a $10  million loan to the BPPE Fund from the Bureau of Automotive Repair ’s High Polluter Repair or Removal Account in December 2025.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - 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. UC reserves dropped notably at the onset of the Great Recession.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Figure 9 shows the increase by award type. During this period, the number of students earning each type of CTE award increased significantly. The number of students earning each of these types of awards in non‑CTE fields, however, increased even faster.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - On the other hand, as Figure  6 shows, students with higher awards are likely to be from households with higher incomes. These students tend to receive less gift aid, resulting in larger MCS awards than students from lower ‑income households.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - In addition, the 2025-26 Budget Act includes $9 million to fund one or two new local library infrastructure projects (likely in the San Jose and/or Santa Cruz areas), $3.6 million for the Altadena Library District, and $2 million for the San Francisco Hillel Center (using freed-up funds from the San Diego Hillel Center project).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - Figure  6 shows that success rates are consistently lower for students in correspondence courses. In fall 2019 (the year just before the pandemic), the gap in success rates between in ‑person and correspondence courses was 15  percentage points.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

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

Nov 7, 2024 - Over  the past ten years, the campus has grown from 6 to 17 doctoral program offerings. The campus also has some master ’s degree programs, though many of those programs are offered only to matriculated doctoral students (effectively allowing students to earn a master ’s degree while working toward their doctoral degree).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - Of this amount, $9  million is state funding and $5.3  million is private funding. The state provided SIB with one-time marketing funds with the goal of implementing different marketing activities and analyzing best practices for increasing CalKIDS claim rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

The 2021-22 Budget: Hastings College of the Law

Feb 22, 2021 - Though Hastings would not increase its tuition charges, it anticipates a 9. 5  p ercent increase in enrollment, generating $4. 2  m illion in additional tuition revenue. When factoring growth in other core funding, Hastings anticipates total unrestricted core funding to increase by $6. 5  m illion ( 11  p ercent) in 2021 ‑ 22 o ver its 2020 ‑ 21 l evel.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4383