What proportion of the Legislature is needed to pass a trailer bill?
What is a simple majority?
This 1960 policy framework established California’s three public higher education systems.
What is the California Master Plan for Higher Education
Founded in 1868, this public university system was designed to serve California through teaching, research, and public service and later became the state’s primary research institution
What is the University of California?
This proposition limited districts' ability to raise local property taxes.
What is Proposition 13?
This number is the real student impact of an almost 8% decrease in CSU state funding.
What is 36,000 students?
The number campuses in the UC
What is 10?
This percentage of Prop 98 minimum funding goes to community colleges.
What is (about) 11%?
This budget strategy delays a $144 million state payment to CSU, avoiding an official cut while still reducing available funding.
What are Payment Deferrals?
According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, this funding source now makes up more than half of the University of California’s core funding.
What are student tuition and fees?
This is the unfunded mandate sometimes confused with the 50% law.
What is the 75/25 goal?
This agreement promised CSU steady annual funding increases tied to enrollment and student success, but was later modified and deferred.
What is the Multiyear Compact?
This institutional strategy is increasingly relied upon by UC to manage public funding volatility, but it raises questions about equity, mission alignment, and long-term sustainability.
What is reliance on alternative or non-state revenue sources?
These are the three components used to calculate the Student Centered Funding Formula (SCFF).
What are enrollment, supplemental (equity), and completion (student success)?
This CSU policy shifts funding away from campuses that miss enrollment goals and reallocates it to campuses with growing student populations.
What is the CSU Enrollment Target and Budget Reallocation Plan?
The 25-26 budget for the UC
What is $53.6 billion?