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News and Insights: Webinar on Securing the Public Trust: Practical Steps toward Higher Education Finance Reform in California
All California students deserve the opportunity to get a high-quality four-year college education. But that promise is being broken every day because California’s system for financing its public universities is not working on behalf of students. Learn more about the report Securing the Public Trust: Practical Steps toward Higher Education Finance Reform in California, which…
Resource: Appendix to Securing the Public Trust: Practical Steps toward Higher Education Finance Reform in California
View Resource This appendix to Securing the Public Trust: Practical Steps toward Higher Education Finance Reform in California, provides source data and analyses supplemental to the report. Click below to view the framing report from College Futures Foundation. Together with this appendix, the report aims to support a candid, productive dialogue by presenting a comprehensive…
Resource: Securing the Public Trust: Practical Steps toward Higher Education Finance Reform in California
The system for financing our public universities in California isn’t working. If we want our next generation of students to succeed and if we want our state to be competitive in the global economy, we will need to tackle this issue. We must start by building a shared understanding between public policy makers and higher education leaders of the problem as well as practical ways to solve it.
News and Insights: Why We Need Higher Education Finance Reform for Our Students, Institutions, and State
California’s economic health and civil society are being imperiled by an outdated and increasingly dysfunctional approach to paying for its public university systems—the California State University and the University of California. Without change, each year many more qualified and motivated California students will be turned away from the opportunity to get a college degree.
Resource: Recent Statewide Reforms in Higher Education Financing and Accountability: Emerging Lessons from the States
View Resource This paper, by Jane Wellman and Darcie Harvey, examines reforms to historic approaches of paying for higher education in other states with the goal of finding and highlighting relevant lessons that California can apply to its current higher education financing efforts. Historically, financing higher education has been left primarily to the states. Because…
Resource: Historic Dynamics Shaping the Higher Education Budget in California
Download The California state budget for higher education has gone through a number of iterations over the years, from the early days when both university systems were funded almost entirely from state general funds to the current day. The behavioral and fiscal attributes of the current process bear many traces of this history. This brief…
Resource: Improving Equity: Increasing Baccalaureate Attainment of Underrepresented Students in California
DOWNLOAD Low-income and first-generation college students—most of whom come from racial or ethnic groups that have historically been underrepresented in higher education—are the face of California’s future. Although now the majority of high school graduates, their baccalaureate attainment rates are only one-third of those belonging to White and Asian students. Meanwhile, California faces a looming…
Resource: Toward a New Cross-Sector Partnership for Student Success
View Resource California’s Master Plan for Higher Education envisioned a cohesive “system.” But California higher education is in fact more of a loose federation rather than a unified system. In earlier decades, this loose federation served the needs of the sectors and the state reasonably well. But since then, California’s economy has changed, its demographics…
Resource: Summary of Focus Group Research: Views on Higher Education and Higher Education Finance in California
View Resource This qualitative research project was designed to explore overall views towards higher education in California, with a focus on how voters understand higher education financing and budgeting facts and issues, as well as how they react to specific message statements framing the challenge. David Binder Research designed the research project, conducted focus groups,…
Resource: Prospects for State General Fund Revenues for Higher Education
Download California’s General Fund revenue and expenditure trend lines create an uncertain trajectory that is unlikely to both meet expected costs and provide for significant increase in students for the state’s public university systems. This paper by Mark Hill, California State Department of Finance (retired), reviews past and possible future trends affecting General Fund availability…