66913.
(a) The Office of Higher Education Coordination, Accountability, and Performance is hereby established for purposes of statewide postsecondary education planning, oversight, data collection, and coordination.(b) The office shall have all of the following functions and responsibilities:
(1) It shall advise the Legislature and the Governor regarding the need and optimal locations for a new segment of public postsecondary education or new public postsecondary segment campuses.
(2) It shall receive legislative and budget proposals from the public postsecondary segments for new public postsecondary programs, priorities
to guide the public postsecondary segments, and coordination between the public postsecondary segments, and nearby independent institutions of higher education, as defined in Section 66010, and private postsecondary educational institutions, as defined in Section 94858. The office shall make recommendations regarding these proposals to the Legislature and the Governor. Each public postsecondary segment shall submit all proposals for new academic programs at its campuses to the office for review together with supporting materials and documents specified by the office.
(3) It shall review all proposals for changes in eligibility pools for admission to the public postsecondary segments and their campuses, and shall make recommendations regarding those proposals to the Legislature, the Governor, and the public postsecondary segments. In carrying out this paragraph, the office shall periodically conduct a study of the percentages of California
public high school graduates estimated to be eligible for admission to the University of California and the California State University.
(4) It shall periodically provide independent oversight on the public postsecondary segments’ and individual campus-based programs and initiatives and cross-segmental and interagency programs and initiatives in areas that include, but are not necessarily limited to, graduation rates, affordability, transfer, financial aid, assessment and placement, remediation, degree and certificate completion, adult education, workforce coordination, student transition into the workforce, effectiveness, and alignment with state goals and performance measures in higher education, including, but not necessarily limited to, the performance measures described in Sections 89295 and 92675. The office shall make recommendations regarding these programs and initiatives to the Legislature and the Governor.
(5) It shall, through its use of information and its analytic capacity, do all of the following:
(A) Inform the identification and periodic revision of state goals and performance measures of higher education in a manner that aligns with the goals for California’s postsecondary education system described in Section 66010.91, and takes into consideration the performance measures described in Sections 89295 and 92675. It shall, biennially, interpret and evaluate both statewide and regional performance in relation to those goals and performance measures.
(B) In consultation with the public postsecondary segments, set performance targets for enrollment and degree and certificate completion statewide and by region. The office shall update the performance targets every two years.
(C) In consultation with the public postsecondary segments and workforce and development agencies, including, but not limited to, the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, periodically measure the supply and demand of jobs in fields of study statewide and by region.
(D) Periodically review both statewide and regional gaps of higher education admission, enrollment, and success by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, and additional categories of students, as determined by the office.
66914.
(a) The office may require the public postsecondary segments to submit data to the office on plans, programs, costs, admission, enrollment, retention, plant capacities, and other matters pertinent to effective planning, policy development, articulation, and coordination. The office shall furnish information concerning these matters to the Governor and to the Legislature as requested by them.(b) The public postsecondary segments shall provide student data to the office in a manner and format prescribed by the office for the purpose of establishing a P-20 longitudinal statewide data system.
(c) (1) The Labor and Workforce Development Agency shall provide
wage record and workforce program data to the office for students who recently entered the workforce under one of the following categories:
(A) As a California high school dropout.
(B) As a California high school graduate who has not enrolled full-time as a public postsecondary student.
(C) As a California public postsecondary dropout.
(D) As a California public postsecondary graduate.
(2) The agency shall submit data pursuant to paragraph (1) disaggregated by category.
(d) The public postsecondary segments and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency shall provide to the office new data every six months for purposes of
this chapter.
(e) The public postsecondary segments, the office, and the Labor Workforce and Development Agency may disclose data pursuant to this section only to the extent permitted by state and federal privacy laws, including, but not limited to, the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1232g).
(f) The office shall make recommendations to the Legislature and the Governor on standardizing definitions and data collection across the state’s preschool through grade 12 system and public postsecondary segments.