Higher education leaders were cautiously optimistic in January when Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a proposed budget that included a combined $716.3 million in new base funding for the University of California and California State University. Their sentiment remained largely unchanged Thursday, as Newsom’s revised budget maintained the proposed funding for universities.
UC and CSU officials breathed a sigh of relief because it wasn’t a given that the funding earmarked in the governor’s January budget would remain intact in his May revision. The state’s university systems do not receive the minimum funding guarantees that TK-12 schools and community colleges get under California’s Proposition 98, and must compete with other dueling priorities covered in the rest of the state budget.
“He has never lost sight of the positive impact that the California State University has on driving California’s workforce and economy,” CSU Chancellor Mildred García said of Newsom in a statement. “The proposed funding for the CSU outlined in the May revision further demonstrates the administration’s belief in the CSU and confidence in the state’s return on investment.”
Newsom’s updated budget appropriates $350.6 million in new base funds for UC and $365.7 million for CSU, meaning UC would receive $5.3 billion from the state’s general fund and CSU would get $5.6 billion.
Those funds represent a 5% annual budget increase that had been promised by the state to UC and CSU under a five-year compact agreement. In exchange for the state funding boost, the two university systems must work to raise graduation rates and enroll more in-state residents.
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Let it be known California education is clearly the dumbest in the world. Don’t even know domestic treason imagine being so much of an idiot you can’t read the constitution
