1. New Performance Measures for
California’s Four-Year Colleges
California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy
June 25, 2013

2. Governor Brown’s Proposed Budget Would
Have Created Performance Targets
 Number of Graduates…
 …who started there as freshmen
 …who transferred from CCCs
 …who are low-Income
 Graduation Rates
 Of freshmen: four years
 Of transfers: two years
 Number of Transfers in from CCCs
 Degrees per 100 FTE Enrollment

3. Final Budget Establishes Measures, but No
Explicit Targets (Yet)
The plan requires UC and CSU to report:
 Enrollment numbers, with sub-groups
 Completions, including post-baccalaureate degrees
 Separate accounting of STEM degrees
 Graduation rates and an “on-track” measure
 Efficiency:
 Funding per degree
 Credits per degree

4. Enrollment
 Transfer students:
 Number enrolled each year
 Proportion of total undergraduate enrollment
 Low-income students (received a Pell Grant at any
time):
 Number enrolled each year
 Proportion of total student population

5. Completion of Degrees
 Number of degrees conferred to students who:
 …started as freshmen at the university.
 …transferred in.
 …are low low-income students.
 …are graduate students.
 Number of degrees in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields for:
 Undergraduates
 Graduate students
 Low-income students

6. Graduation Rates
 For Freshmen (all, and separately for low-income):
 Four-year rates
 Six-year rates (CSU only)
 For junior-level transfers (all, and separately for low-
income)
 Two-year rates
 Three-year rates (CSU only)
 On track measure: Proportion of freshmen who earn
enough credits in the first year to graduate within
four years.

7. Efficiency Measures
 Total funding received divided by degrees conferred.
 Expenditures for undergraduate education divided by
undergraduate degrees conferred.
 Total course credits accumulated by degree
recipients (presumably undergraduates) for those
who
 Entered as freshmen
 Transferred in

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