SB 1022, as amended, Huff. Public postsecondary education: labor market outcome information.
Existing law establishes the California State University and the University of California as 2 of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Instruction is provided to students at the 25 institutions constituting the California State University and the 10 institutions constituting the University of California.
This bill would require the California State University, and request the University of California, to publicly provide labor market prematriculation and outcome information relating to their graduates. The information required by the bill would include, but not necessarily be limited to, salary data, classified by industry. The bill would specify requirements for presentation of this data, including the use of easily understood labor market measures, aggregation of the data to the systemwide level and by particular areas of study, timeframes before and after graduation for the presentation of the data in each labor market prematriculation and outcome category, and adherence to pertinent state and federal privacy laws.
The bill would require that this information be made publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites of the respectivebegin delete segments no later than June 1, 2016,end deletebegin insert segments,end insert and updated no later than June 1 of eachbegin delete year thereafter.end deletebegin insert year.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
It is the intent of the Legislature that the impact
2of public postsecondary education on the employment and earnings
3of students be made publicly available, to the extent possible, to
4students and families consistently across the segments of public
5postsecondary education.
Section 66014.3 is added to the Education Code, to
7read:
(a) The California State University shall, and the
9University of California is requested to, publicly provide labor
10market prematriculation and outcome information relating to their
11graduates. This information shall include, but not necessarily be
12limited to, salary data, classified by industry.
13(b) The information required by this section shall be provided
14using data including, but not necessarily limited to, information
15provided by the Employment Development Department pursuant
16to Section 1095 of the Unemployment Insurance Code and the
17segments’ own databases. The information shall be presented in
18accordance with all of the following requirements:
19(1) The data shall be presented in terms of easily understood
20labor market measures, such as median annual wage.
21(2) The data shall be aggregated to the systemwide level and
22by particular areas of study.
23(3) Labor market outcome data for each category shall, at a
24minimum, provide data relating to graduates one or two years, and
25five years, after their graduation, and prematriculation labor market
26data for graduates six years before the receipt of their degrees. The
27Legislature encourages the California State University and the
28University of California to additionally provide labor market
29outcome data for periods longer than five years after graduation.
P3 1(4) In the collection and publication of data pursuant to this
2section, the segments shall adhere to all pertinent state and federal
3privacy laws.
4(c) The information required by this section shall be made
5publicly available through publication on the Internet Web sites
6of the respectivebegin delete segments no later than June 1, 2016,end deletebegin insert segments,end insert
7 and shall be updated no later than June 1 of eachbegin delete year thereafter.end delete
8begin insert year.end insert
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