Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - The one remaining college is a fully online statewide college governed at the state level. CCC currently enrolls a total ann ual headcount of approximately 1.9  million students. Of the colleges, 27 enroll fewer than 10,000 students, 47 enroll between 10,000  and 20,000 students, and 42 enroll more than 20,000 students.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

Improving Workforce Education and Training Data in California [Publication Details]

Aug 18, 2016 - In addition, to collect information about program participants’ longer-term outcomes, state agencies often must share and link data with one another. Currently, the state's method for linking data is inefficient and administratively burdensome.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/3494

Update on Community College Reserves

Jan 27, 2021 - Colleges ’ local policies and unrestricted reserve levels are not tightly linked to their enrollment size or geography. Rather, their policies and unrestricted reserve levels tend to be more closely linked with the perspectives of their local governing boards.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4323

The 2016-17 Budget: Assessing the Governor’s Zero-Textbook-Cost Proposal

Mar 14, 2016 - MERLOT (CSU) Online learning community created in 1997 by CSU that offers free access to more than 60,000 peer –reviewed online teaching and learning materials across a wide range of disciplines. OER Commons (ISKME) Large database providing a single point of access from which educators and students can efficiently search, browse, and evaluate resources in project ’s growing collection of links to high –quality OER.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3392

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Oct 19, 2023 - Most notably, it makes awards of up to $10,000 available to in-state students enrolled in certain online teacher preparation programs based outside California, with spending on these awards capped at 8  percent of total program funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4809

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

May 10, 2022 - The program accomplishes this objective primarily by awarding competitive grants to intersegmental faculty teams, which in turn develop the online course content. Beyond awarding grants for new online course content, state law allows CELL to undertake other actions to support instructional best practices, such as supporting faculty professional development and developing a “best of ” library of online materials.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4594

The 2013-14 Budget: Analysis of the Higher Education Budget [Publication Details]

Feb 12, 2013 - If more funding is provided, then we recommend the Legislature link the additional funding with explicit enrollment and performance expectations. Reports by Policy Area
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/2686

Overview of Mental Health Services for College Students

Dec 10, 2021 - This provisional language is linked with ongoing state funding for student mental health services at UC, CSU, and CCC, and it requires all three segments to submit recurring reports on the use of these funds.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4481

The 2020-21 Budget: Hastings College of the Law

Mar 13, 2020 - Rather than linking these augmentations to enrollment changes, the state typically has loosely linked them to inflationary increases in Hastings ’ core budget. (In some years, state funding increased even as Hastings ’ enrollment dropped.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4201

The 2023-24 Budget: California Spending Plan Series [Publication Details]

Oct 2, 2023 - Each year, our office publishes California Spending Plan, a series of publications that summarize the annual state budget. The final version of Overview of the California Spending Plan is presented here along with short online posts that focus on major areas and features of the 2023-24 budget package. As these posts become available, we will add them below.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4835