The Daily Bruin online edition reported that last week
Regent Chair Lansing met with several UCLA students:
UC regents hear
student input at UCLA after recent midyear budget cuts
JILLIAN BECK, 12/17/11
Members of
the UC Board of Regents met with undergraduate and graduate student leaders at UCLA Friday
morning to discuss ways to work directly with students, days after another
multi-million dollar cut in state funding was dealt to the UC. The visit fulfilled a promise Regent Chair
Sherry Lansing made at the Nov. 28 UC regents meeting. Lansing said she planned
to travel to each of the UC campuses and hear student input on university
decisions. She visited the campus Friday along with Regent Monica Lozano and
Student Regent Alfredo Mireles Jr…
Fifteen students representing several groups attended the meeting,
though none from Occupy UCLA, which had originally
called for it to take place. Lansing had
initially offered three dates to Occupy UCLA protesters,
all of which fell during winter break. Andrew Newton, a fourth-year
international development studies student and an organizer of Occupy UCLA, said the
timing did not accommodate student schedules. Members of Occupy UCLA opted out
of the meeting in favor of holding one early winter quarter, when more students
will be available. …Lansing said she
wanted to uphold her promise of visiting UCLA before the
end of the calendar year. She and UCLA administrators
have pledged that a second meeting will take place in January with members of
Occupy UCLA.
…
The meeting also coincided with this week’s announcement of a $100
million “trigger” cut to the UC. During the meeting, UCLA student leaders asked the regents to
publicly support a tax increase proposed by Brown.
If passed, the proposal would
institute a temporary tax increase on high-income earners and increase sales
tax by about half a percent. The tax measure could generate about $7 billion in
extra revenue for the state’s education and public safety programs. Lansing said to student leaders that while
she cannot speak for the entire board, she would be willing to take a public
stance in favor of the proposed initiative…
Full article at http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/12/uc_regents_hear_student_input_at_ucla_after_recent_midyear_budget_cuts
Anyway, they said there will be another meeting:
Anyway, they said there will be another meeting:
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