The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Recommend Signaling More Realistic Budget Expectations for CSU and UC in 2026 ‑27. To balance the budget in 2024 ‑25, the state applied small General Fund reductions to CSU and UC. At  the same time, the state provided a clear signal to CSU and UC that they were to begin planning for deeper base reductions in 2025 ‑26.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - New Higher Education Spending Is at Risk Given Stock Market Signals. The administration ’s higher revenue estimates are mainly driven by strong stock market performance. Certain factors signal the stock market might be approaching a peak.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2023-24 Budget: California State University

Feb 7, 2023 - Recommend Also Signaling Enrollment Growth Intentions for 2024 ‑25. Given the timing of the admissions cycle, we recommend the Legislature also signal any intent for additional enrollment growth in 2024 ‑25 in the 2023 ‑24 Budget Act .
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4671

The 2026-27 Budget: Community College Facilities

Mar 17, 2026 - Figure 2 Governor ’s Budget Funds New CCC Capital Outlay Projects Proposition 2 Bond Funds (In Thousands) College $399,428 $747,686 a Community college districts issue local general obligation bonds to pay for a share of project costs. b Replacement buildings listed in this category involve adding space. c Center operated by Sequoias Community College District.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5159

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - For Cal Grant recipients (who already have their tuition, and, in some cases, a portion of their nontuition costs covered), MCS provides ad ditional aid for nontuition costs. Though less notable given relative magnitude, the revamped program also expanded eligibility to CCC students in bachelor ’s degree programs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

The 2021-22 Budget: University Capital Outlay

Mar 5, 2021 - The provisional language in the 2019 ‑20 Budget Act focused on authorizing a “medical school project. ” Riverside ’s project focused primarily on adding more instructional space for its medical school students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4395

The 2022-23 Budget: Student Housing

Apr 8, 2022 - This action would better signal legislative intent that campuses, rather than the state, bear the risks of their projects. (We also note that UC, CSU, and CCC campuses already tend to cover cost overruns from nonstate sources for their state‑funded academic facility projects.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4589

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - The new framework goes beyond the GI 2025 objectives of increasing graduation rates and closing equity gaps by adding new objectives and several new metrics. One  notable new objective is ensuring all students are able to graduate with a first career job or pathway to graduate education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

The 2022-23 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2022 - Even after adding the proposed 9,434 FTE students, the projected resident undergraduate enrollment level in 2022 ‑23 is 3,358  FTE students lower than the actual enrollment level two years earlier in 2020 ‑21.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4537

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major CCC Proposals

Feb 11, 2022 - Supports Adding First ‑Generation Metric to SCFF. The Governor also signals his interest in adopting the oversight committee ’s recommendation to incorporate first ‑generation college students into SCFF.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4531