We continue to provide alternative archiving of Regents
meetings due to the regental policy of maintaining archives for only one
year. For the record, you can find this
policy at http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/videos.html.
The statement there currently reads:
Video Archives of Regents Meetings: 2013
Video files for past open session meetings of The University of California Regents and its Committees are available for one year after the dates of the meetings.
The statement there currently reads:
Video Archives of Regents Meetings: 2013
Video files for past open session meetings of The University of California Regents and its Committees are available for one year after the dates of the meetings.
Below is the
official agenda for the morning session:
8:30 am
Committee of the Whole - Public Comment (open session)
8:50 am
Committee on Compensation (open session)
9:00 am
Committee on Educational Policy (open session)
10:45 am
Committee on Long Range Planning (open session)
11:00 am
Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (open session)
11:30 am
Board (open session)
Surprisingly,
at both this morning’s public comment session and yesterday’s session, there
were only off-hand comments on the appointment of the new UC president. (The appointment was an afternoon agenda
item, however, and that is when there were protests about the appointment both in
the form of comments and demonstrations at various points.) Today there was
discussion of transfers from community colleges, concerns about increases in
tuition of professional programs, use of online education, the lawsuit by UC
against certain financial firms for manipulation of the LIBOR interest rate to
the university’s detriment, opposition to the tuition increases for certain
nursing programs, and opposition for use of animals for medical research. There were complaints by AFSCME concerning
executive pay, understaffing, and other matters such as tuition.
There was
approval for appointment and compensation of two acting co-chief investment
officers to replace the executive who suddenly resigned. No word on why the resignation occurred.
The
Committee on Educational Policy heard a report on online ed at UC. One Regent noted that most of the courses
reported to be given were non-credit extension classes. The committee also reviewed a food center at
Davis. The code of faculty conduct was
modified explicitly to protect the right of faculty to speak on matters of UC
policy in response to a U.S. Supreme Court that limited rights of public
employees to speak on agency policy.
The
Committee on Long Range Planning heard an accountability report.
There was a
lengthy report on climate change research from the national labs. In reaction, the new student regent-delegate
indicated it might be a good idea to adopt divestment of fossil fuel companies,
a suggestion that has been pushed by student speakers in prior public comment
sessions at Regents meetings. One Regent
seemed to endorse that suggestion. No
other Regents commented on the suggestion.
The committee adopted exclusions of regents without security clearance
from certain information about the labs.
In the open
session, outgoing president Yudof reported on various UC faculty and other accomplishments. Two Regents voted against the tuition
increase for certain nursing programs which was adopted.
You can hear
the meeting audio at the link below:
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