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What proportion of the Legislature is needed to pass a trailer bill?

What is a simple majority?

100

This 1960 policy framework established California’s three public higher education systems. 

What is the California Master Plan for Higher Education

100

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?

200

This proposition limited districts' ability to raise local property taxes.

What is Proposition 13?

200

This number is the real student impact of an almost 8% decrease in CSU state funding.

What is 36,000 students?

200

The number campuses in the UC

What is 10?

300

This percentage of Prop 98 minimum funding goes to community colleges.

What is (about) 11%?

300

This budget strategy delays a $144 million state payment to CSU, avoiding an official cut while still reducing available funding.

What are Payment Deferrals?

300

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?

400

This is the unfunded mandate sometimes confused with the 50% law.

What is the 75/25 goal?

400

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?

400

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?

500

These are the three components used to calculate the Student Centered Funding Formula (SCFF).

What are enrollment, supplemental (equity), and completion (student success)?

500

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?

500

The 25-26 budget for the UC

What is $53.6 billion?