The 2026-27 Budget: Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

Mar 25, 2026 - Adjusting for inflation, revenues were 18  percent lower in 2024-25 than in 2018-19. BPPE Fund Has a Structural Deficit. As Figure  1 shows, expenditures from the BPPE Fund have exceeded revenues annually beginning in 2014-15.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5169

The 2026-27 Budget: California Education Learning Lab

Mar 25, 2026 - The 2018-19 budget provided OPR with $10  million ongoing General Fund for Learning Lab. As Figure  1 shows, Learning Lab ’s ongoing funding has fluctuated somewhat over time. In 2024-25, the state reduced Learning Lab ’s ongoing General Fund to $5.5  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5171

Second Round of Higher Education Federal Relief Funds

Jan 20, 2021 - Whereas the CARES Act specified that student aid was for expenses related to campus disruptions due to COVID-19, CRRSAA allows student aid to be used for the regular costs of college attendance or emergency costs related to COVID-19.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4315

The 2026-27 Budget: California Student Aid Commission

Feb 17, 2026 - (Page 19 of this CSAC MCS 2024‑25 handbook shows illustrative MCS award amounts for students at different segments with different levels of financial means.) MCS Award Coverage Has Been Determined in Two Ways.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5127

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021, signed by the President on March  11, 2021, provides $1.9  trillion for a broad array of efforts related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This is the third piece of federal legislation that contains substantial COVID-19 relief funding for colleges and universities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

The 2026-27 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2026 - In 2018 ‑19, the state adopted a new formula —SCFF . This formula is intended to create stronger incentives for colleges to enroll lower ‑income students and improve outcomes for them and students overall.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5150

The 2026-27 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Feb 5, 2026 - Calbright College is a fully online college the state established in 2018 ‑19. Other major CCC proposals include $408 million—nearly half of the proposed one‑time Proposition 98 CCC spending—for retiring the apportionments deferral adopted in last year’s budget.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5112

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

Nov 7, 2024 - The student ‑to ‑faculty ratio at UC Merced (19:1) exceeded that of the UC system (15:1) over this period. Among other employee groups, the greatest difference was for academic support staff (nonfaculty, nonstudent staff).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937

The 2024-25 Budget: California Community Colleges

Feb 21, 2024 - As Figure  4 also shows, between 2018 ‑19 (the last full year before the start of the pandemic) and 2021 ‑22, full ‑time equivalent (FTE) students at CCC declined by more than 200,000 (19  percent). The drop in CCC enrollment was consistent with national community college enrollment trends over this period.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4853

The 2022-23 Budget: Office of Planning and Research Higher Education Proposals

May 10, 2022 - When the state first provided CELL $10  million in the 2018 ‑19 budget, campuses had not yet experienced the rapid transition to remote instruction brought on by the COVID ‑19 pandemic. Since the start of the pandemic in early 2020, campuses and faculty have devoted more resources and attention to online education.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4594