The document outlines new performance measures that will be used to evaluate California's public four-year colleges and universities. While Governor Brown originally proposed specific targets, the final budget establishes measures for enrollment numbers, degree completions, graduation rates, and efficiency without explicit targets. The measures include metrics like the number of transfer students, low-income student enrollment rates, degrees conferred by student type, STEM degrees awarded, and graduation rates for freshmen and transfers. Financial efficiency will also be assessed using factors like funding and credits earned per degree awarded.

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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