The 2022-23 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2022 - As  we have noted in previous analyses, CSU has been found to be drawing from beyond these pools in recent years, and it likely continues to do so. In past periods, the state has expected the universities to tighten freshman admission policies when they were found to be drawing from beyond these pools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4537

The 2022-23 Budget: Analysis of Major UC Proposals

Feb 2, 2022 - As we have noted in previous analyses, UC has been found to be drawing from beyond these pools in recent years and likely will continue to do so. In  past periods, the state has expected UC to tighten freshman admission policies when it was found to be drawing from beyond these pools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4511

The 2021-22 Budget: Hastings College of the Law

Feb 22, 2021 - Hastings plans on increasing its employee salary pool of 3  p ercent, which would cover a mix of merit salary increases for faculty and nonrepresented staff as well as general salary increases for its represented employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4383

The 2026-27 Budget: University of California

Feb 26, 2026 - UC places its pooled cash in investment accounts and uses some of the annual investment earnings to support core operations. UC also receives overhead revenue associated with federal contracts and grants —known as federal indirect cost recovery —that helps support campus research infrastructure and certain central administrative costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5143

The 2025-26 Budget: University of California

Feb 27, 2025 - One way has been to place its pooled cash in investment accounts and use some of the annual investment earnings to support core operations. In UC ’s 2024 ‑25 budget plan, it identified $90  million in investment earnings that it designated for its core operations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4998

Assessment of the Strong Workforce Program

Dec 10, 2025 - The Strong Workforce Task Force believed these requirements might be limiting the pool of industry professionals who could serve as CTE  instructors. Assessment In this section, we analyze how well SWP is meeting its objectives of increasing the availability and quality of CTE.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5098

The 2024-25 Budget: California State University

Feb 15, 2024 - CSU estimates the cost of every 1  percent increase in its compensation pool for all employee groups in 2024 ‑25 would be $55  million ongoing. CSU Is Directly Responsible for Certain Pension Costs. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) administers pension benefits for CSU and most other state employees.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4842

The 2025-26 Budget: California Community Colleges

Mar 5, 2025 - Alternatively, these districts could create a joint powers authority to pool their IT resources and expertise, leveraging their larger co mbined size to negotiate better prices. Without an analysis of these types of alternatives, the Legislature cannot determine whether the Common ERP project is the best way to address the identified objectives.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5005

The 2023-24 Budget: Higher Education Overview

Jan 31, 2023 - For example, with the same total ongoing funding increase that the Governor proposes for CSU ($227  million), the Legislature could fund a 3  percent increase in CSU ’s employee compensation pool ($157  million), certain health benefit increases ($51  million), and some capital renewal projects ($20  million).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4664

Addressing Capital Renewal at UC and CSU

Jan 5, 2023 - UC has a similar investment account called the Total Return Investment Pool (TRIP). However, state law does not restrict the use of UC TRIP earnings to capital expenses, and data is not available on how much funding from this source has gone toward capital  renewal.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4657