The LAO on Student Mental Health

The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) has released a report on spending on student mental health services at the three segments of public higher education in California in recent years.

In particular, the report shows a recent uptick at UC in resources going to student mental health in the current fiscal year. Of course, that uptick coincides with the increased allocation by the state to UC once it became clear that the pandemic downturn did not produce the expected revenue downturn, and that in fact revenue was rising.

Below is a table from the new report which shows an almost four-fold increase in spending on student mental health at UC when this year is compared with last year:

The full LAO report is at https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4481.