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Statewide Survey · December 2016

PPIC Statewide Survey Californians and Higher Education

Mark Baldassare, Lunna Lopes, Dean Bonner, and David Kordus

The survey was supported with funding from the Arjay and Frances Miller Foundation, the Flora Family Foundation, John and Louise Bryson, Walter Hewlett, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Californians give the state’s public higher education system high marks, but see affordability as a big problem. Most say higher education funding is inadequate but also believe that existing funds need to be used more wisely. While nearly all see the system as important to the state’s future, Californians are divided on whether a college education is necessary for individual success in today’s economy.


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Access Affordability Completion Equity Finance Higher Education K–12 Education Political Landscape Statewide Survey Workforce Needs