Topic: Higher Ed Finance Reform

Summary of Focus Group Research: Views on Higher Education and Higher Education Finance in California

January 9, 2017

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,…

California’s Public University Employee Benefits: Challenges and Trade-Offs

January 9, 2016

Download The purpose of this policy brief, by James A. Hyatt, is to lay out the dimensions and complex policy components of the issue of employee benefit expenditures in the state’s two public university systems. It also addresses the state and system-level decision-making processes around employee benefits, and provides examples from across the country of…