Yet accurately comparing what the community colleges spend on education-related costs with the CSU system and particularly the UC system is impossible without further transparency, the report said. “Neither segment has ever been willing or forced to disaggregate undergraduate from graduate spending,” the report said. CSU spokesman Michael Uhlenkamp said it’s true that the system does not separate undergraduate education spending as part of its current budget process, but could find a way to do it if lawmakers asked for the data. Yet Steve Boilard, director of higher education for the Legislative Analyst’s Office, said that CSU and UC have been asked to provide that data for years and that it would be informative for policy analysis. “Going back eight or nine years, there’s been a number of questions from our office, (the California Postsecondary Education Commission) and legislative staff trying to disaggregate graduate spending for UC or CSU,” he said. “And continually, the universities have insisted that they are unable to separate those costs out.”

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by Erica Perez, California Watch.

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