Finance?

One oddity of the upcoming Regents meeting is the placement of the report and agenda item described below on the docket of the Committee on Finance.  The connection of the topic of the item with “finance” is a bit difficult to comprehend:

Office of the General Counsel 

TO MEMBERS OF THE 

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE: 

DISCUSSION ITEM 

For Meeting of March 28, 2012

REPORT ON REVIEW OF POLICIES AND BEST PRACTICES IN RESPONSE TO CAMPUS PROTESTS

Following the incidents at the Berkeley and Davis campuses in November, the President directed Vice President and General Counsel Robinson and Dean Christopher Edley of the Berkeley Law School to conduct a systemwide review of campus policies and practices in responding to protests. This review differs from the other reviews currently under way in that it is not focused on the November incidents but rather is forward-looking, with the objective of developing systemwide recommendations regarding best practices.

  

General Counsel Robinson and Dean Edley and their team have reviewed relevant policies at each of the ten campuses, interviewed the leadership of key internal constituencies, including administrators, faculty, students and police, and sought additional input through a series of town hall meetings. In addition, the Robinson/Edley team has interviewed a number of external experts regarding campus policing and protests and reviewed relevant literature on this subject. 

Areas of focus include recognizing First Amendment rights and the tradition of civil disobedience on campus; coordination and communication between administrators, students, and police; de-escalation techniques; use of force; hiring and training; mutual aid from outside agencies; documentation of events; and post-event review.

Source: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/mar12/f4.pdf