The 2025‑26 Budget: Fiscal Outlook for Schools and Community Colleges

Nov 20, 2024 - For the prior year, the state finalizes its calculation through a process known as “certification. ” Certification involves the publication of the underlying Proposition   98 inputs and a period for public comment and review.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4940

Overview of Federal COVID-19 Research Funding

May 13, 2020 - Other state agencies with notable R &D programs include the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the California Energy Commission. These agencies, in turn, generally fund contracts and grants to universities and other entities to conduct research.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4230

An Analysis of the University of California’s Agricultural and Natural Resource Programs

Jan 6, 2022 - Specifically, each of these campuses has a college focusing on agriculture and natural resources that supports experiment station research, as does UC  Davis ’s School of Veterinary Medicine. The four  deans of these particular colleges oversee their respective experiment stations in partnership with UC ANR.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4490

The 2020-21 Budget: Medical Education Analysis [Publication Details]

Feb 20, 2020 - In this brief, we analyze the Governor’s proposals relating to UC medical education. After providing an overview of medical education, we first analyze the Governor’s proposals to expand enrollment and build a new academic building at the UC Riverside School of Medicine. We then analyze the Governor’s proposal to expand enrollment and services at the UCSF Fresno branch campus.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4166

The 2020-21 Budget: Medical Education Analysis

Feb 20, 2020 - In 2011, UC established a new PRIME program focused on practicing medicine in the San Joaquin Valley. Under the program, known as San Joaquin Valley PRIME, medical students completed their two years of basic science instruction at UC Davis, then completed one year of clinical rotations at UCSF Fresno, before returning to UC Davis to complete their second year of clinical rotati ons.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4166

The 2025-26 Budget: Scholarshare Investment Board

Apr 30, 2025 - Under the program, SIB opens college savings accounts and makes deposits for eligible children (discussed in more detail below). The deposits are invested so they have the potential to grow over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5035

Trends in Higher Education: Facilities [Publication Details]

Apr 30, 2025 - This is the final brief of a six-part series covering higher education trends in California. This brief focuses on higher education facilities. The brief includes key issues for the Legislature to consider as it makes related policy and budget decisions.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5037

Assessing Community College Programs at State Prisons

Jul 1, 2024 - National research indicates that when postsecondary education is well designed and implemented effectively in correctional settings, it can reduce the rate of reoffending, along with increasing employment rates and wages when incarcerated students are released.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4913

The 2022-23 Budget: UC Climate-Related Proposals

Feb 16, 2022 - Additionally, UC states that the funds primarily would support the development of new UC extended education certificate programs and student work study and internship opportunities. UC further indicates that it expects broad participation in these certificate and work ‑study programs, including among existing students and alumni from the state ’s three public higher education segments.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4538

Trends in Higher Education: Student Access

Jan 23, 2024 - To this end, each brief is punctuated by key issues for legislators to consider as they move forward in making higher education policy a nd budget decisions. The six briefs within the series each contains a set of infographics highlighting trends over time.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4828