The 2025-26 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 6, 2025 - Universities Are Not Experiencing More Predictable State Funding Levels. Despite the Governor ’s compacts and desire to provide CSU and UC with predictable annual funding increases, ongoing General Fund support for the universities has not followed such a trajectory.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4957

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - The compacts were intended to provide the segments with more predictable funding levels, while also promoting certain performance goals, such as enrolling more resident undergraduates and improvi ng graduation rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - In 2013 ‑14, the state initiated a new policy intended to provide UC with greater ability to manage its facilities, more predictability in facility financing, and more incentive to contain costs. Specifically, the state gave UC authority to sell its own university bonds for state ‑approved academic capital projects and use its main General Fund appropriation to cover the associated debt service.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

Second Round of Higher Education Federal Relief Funds

Jan 20, 2021 - These changes are intended to reduce the number of questions on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), as well as allow students to better predict their eligibility for Pell Grants. The changes are expected to increase the number of students eligible for the Pell Grant as well as the maximum Pell Grant.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4315

The 2024-25 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2024 - Among the work group ’s recommendations was to adopt a tuition policy that provides for gradual and predictable increases. In response, the CSU Board of Trustees adopted a new tuition plan in September 2023.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4842

The 2023-24 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 31, 2023 - Whether begun in 2023 ‑24 or 2024 ‑25, the state could encourage CSU to develop a tuition policy similar to UC ’s tuition policy —that is, a policy that results in gradual, predictable, and moderate increases in student charges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4664

The 2021-22 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 8, 2021 - Taking early action would provide them with greater predictability regarding their financial aid coverage as they make their enrollment decisions for the 2021 ‑22 academic year. Recommendation Adopt Proposal as Early Action.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4355