 Next, seven more schools were authorized to be established between 1957 and 1960.Six more campuses joined the system after the enactment of the Donohoe Higher Education Act in 1960, bringing the total number to 23.During this era, the state colleges' peculiar mix of centralization and decentralization began to look rather incongruous in comparison to the highly centralized University of California and the highly decentralized local school districts around the state which operated K–12 schools and community colleges, all of which enjoyed much more autonomy from the rest of the state government than the state colleges.