Recommended Reading
Recent:
AAUP and Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech and the text of the complaint.
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
February 27, 2025: LAO: The 2025-26 Budget: University of California.
February 6, 2025: LAO: The 2025‑26 Budget: Higher Education Overview.
December 4, 2024: LAO: Trends in Higher Education: Faculty and Staff (pdf).
December 2024: PPIC: College Affordability in California.
Perennial:
Our newspaper clippings collection
The State Higher Education Executive Officers Association: State Higher Education Finance, State Profile: California.
The Campaign for Free College Tuition’s monthly survey of support for free public higher education.
UC’s Data Operations Hub link (the types of data UC tracks).
The Corporate Personnel System (CPS) is useful for analyzing personnel and payroll trends, and includes some fund level data which may allow one to see which funds (or fund types) are used to pay specific employees or employee groups.
For a broader understanding of UC revenue streams and fund balances, the Financial Data Warehouse.
UC’s infocenter provides accessible data for quickly reviewing general revenue and expense trends.
Older:
The 2020-21 Budget: Analyzing UC and CSU Cost Pressures.
December, 2019: LAO’s The 2020-21 Budget: Analyzing UC and CSU Cost Pressures.
PPIC: “Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government” (December, 2018)
PPIC: “Higher Education as a Driver of Economic Mobility” (December, 2018)
PPIC: “Financing Higher Education Capital Projects” (December, 2018)
PPIC: “Statewide Survey: Californians and Higher Education” (November, 2018)
The $66 fix: Reclaiming California’s Master Plan for Higher Education; the $48 Fix plus Prop 98 (March, 2018)
PPIC: “Californians Favor Higher Taxes over Higher Tuition” (January, 2017)
Securing The Public Trust Practical Steps Toward Higher Education Finance Reform In California (January, 2017)
Equity, Interrupted: How California Is Cheating Its Future (January, 2017)
PPIC: “California’s Future: Higher Education” “California faces a serious shortage of college-educated workers.” (January, 2017)
LAO’s Analysis of the Higher Education section of the California 2016-17 Budget (February 26, 2016)
State Audit of University of California Budget, Enrollment, and Executive Compensation, assigned February 26, 2015.
PPIC Report “Higher Education in California: Institutional Costs” [HTML, 2014]
2010: The Investors’ Club: How the University of California Regents Spin Public Money into Private Profit
PPIC Report “Closing the Gap: Meeting California’s Need for College Graduates” [HTML, 2009]
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Higher Education [HTML, 2008]
The State of Shared Governance, Open letter from Senate Chair Brown to President Yudof [PDF, 2008]
PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Higher Education [HTML, 2007]
1997: A Brief on the Events Leading to SP1 (ended the use of race, ethnicity and gender in admissions)