The 2024-25 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2024 - Health care premiums in 2024 are increasing 11   percent —more than double the average annual rate of increase over the past five years. CSU estimates its associated costs for active employees in 2024 ‑25 will increase $78  million.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4842

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Higher Education

Nov 14, 2025 - Some of the growth is at UC and CSU (11  percent increase at both segments), primarily due to their planned tuition increases. (Cal Grants provide full tuition coverage for eligible students attending these segments [as well as nontuition coverage for certain students].)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5089

The 2026-27 Budget: California State University

Feb 24, 2026 - As Figure 11 shows, CSU’s total spending on employee health care costs has been increasing over time, reaching $779 million in 2024‑25. Growth in health care costs has been particularly notable the past three years (with the highest growth in 2023‑24 at 10 percent).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5142

Update on Student Housing Assistance

May 7, 2024 - Under the new Higher Education Student Housing program, the state has approved 35 new student housing construction projects (consisting of 15 CCC projects, 11 CSU projects, 5 UC projects, and 4 intersegmental projects).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4898

Assessment of CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025

Dec 10, 2025 - As   Figure  11 shows, equity gaps in graduation rates by race/ethnicity, income, and first ‑generation status persist. (As discussed in the box below, equity gaps in graduation rates by gender also persist.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5099

Third Round of Federal Higher Education Relief Funding

May 3, 2021 - The department announced the new allocations on May 11. As Figure  4 shows, higher education institutions in California are to receive $5  billion in base funds —slightly more than the total amount of HEERF funds provided across the first two rounds ($4.9  billion).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4421

The 2025-26 Budget: College of the Law, San Francisco

Mar 10, 2025 - Figure  1 shows CLSF enrollment over the past 25 years. Since 2000, CLSF enrollment peaked in 2009 at 1,336 full ‑time equivalent (FTE) students, then fell notably from 2011 ‑12 to 2015 ‑16, before leveling off for a few years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5014

The 2021-22 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 10, 2021 - To receive this additional funding, school districts must (1)  develop or update a school reopening plan consistent with updated guidance from the California Department of Public Health, including a plan for asymptomatic testing of all students and staff potentially as often as every week, and (2)  approve collective bargaining agreements to implement the new school reopening plan by February 1.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4309

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - Figure 11 Earnings Improvements Vary Somewhat by Region Median Change in Earnings for CCC CTE Students 2015 ‑16 a 2022 ‑23 Compared to 2015 ‑16 b San Diego/Imperial
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

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

Nov 7, 2024 - Figure  11 shows the areas of campus developed under each of these first two phases. Stage 1 represented the initial campus build ‑out as outlined in the 2002 LRDP. The construction of these facilities took place from before the campus opened in 2004 through 2016.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4937