Regents Meeting of March 15, 2011: Streaming Audio

In the past, readers of this blog will know we have provided partial audio of Regents meetings. The Regents provide streaming audio of their meetings. Yours truly captured the audio – when he had the time and no schedule conflicts – using an audio recorder, converted it to video using a still picture, divided it into roughly 20 minutes segments, posted them on Facebook (which has a 20-minute video limit), and then embedded the Facebook audio/videos on the blog. This procedure was both time consuming and incomplete. From time to time, yours truly raised the question of why the Regents did not archive their audio and make it available indefinitely after the meeting was over.

That questions was never answered. However, the Faculty Association has found that the Regents will supply a CD with the audio pursuant to a Public Documents request. We now have the CD for the meeting of March 15-16-17, 2011. So we will try a new procedure. Yours truly will post the audios to archive.org from which you can either listen online as streaming audio or download the file yourself. Below are links to the meeting of March 15, 2011 in three parts (because the files were sent to us in three parts).

http://www.archive.org/details/UniversityOfCaliforniaRegentsMeeting3-15-11Part1

http://www.archive.org/details/UniversityOfCaliforniaRegentsMeeting3-15-11Part2

http://www.archive.org/details/UniversityOfCaliforniaRegentsMeeting3-15-11Part3

The agenda for the meeting was listed as:

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Tuesday, March 15

12:30 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (Regents only session)

1:00 pm* Committee on Compliance and Audit (open session - includes public comment)

3:00 pm* Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session - includes public comment)

concurrent with regular meeting *

Special Meeting: Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session)

*or upon adjournment of previous session

Note: To see the attachments for the various items on the agenda, go to the Regents page:

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/mar11.html

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In subsequent posts, we will provide the links to the March 16 and March 17, 2011 audios.