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The UC Regents are meeting Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. Yours truly has teaching and other obligations those days. He will
continue the practice of archiving the audio of the sessions long term (since
the Regents won’t do it for more than a year). But the
archiving will be done with a lag and as time permits. Below is the upcoming agenda with some possible
highlights:
Wednesday, January 21
8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session - includes public comment
session)
Surely, we will hear public comments on the
tuition/funding issue.
9:30 am Committee on Educational Policy (open session)
Includes the proposal to tie athletic coach pay
to student/athlete academic performance about which we have blogged earlier and the plan for dealing with sexual
assaults.
11:30 am Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (open session)
11:45 am Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (Regents only
session)
There will be discussion of the (really big)
penalty levied against Los Alamos, albeit discussion behind closed doors.
Noon: Lunch
1:00 pm Committee on Long Range Planning (open session)
Includes the setting up of the committee proposed
by the governor on UC costs. There is
also reference to the old UC Commission on the Future report (UCOF) which was
put together in the face of the Great Recession budget crisis (to which the
governor has referred in prior Regents meetings).
There will also be discussion of UC debt for
capital projects, given the state’s shift of responsibility for such projects
to the university. Will anyone (the governor with his cost concerns?) want to
look at whether such projects are being properly vetted? Don’t bet on it.
2:30 pm Committee on Compensation (closed session)
Involves union relations.
2:45 pm Committee on Compensation (Regents only session)
Big buck executive appointments and pay.
3:30 pm Committee on Finance (Regents only session)
This session is closed but will take up what
appears to be a settlement in the UC Davis strawberry case about which we have
blogged. See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-empire-or-at-least-uc-davis-strikes.html. Also, it appears that our ever-overly-ambitious
LA District Attorney tried to appeal the court dismissal of a totally ridiculous
case against a UCLA faculty member and that the appeal was rejected by the
California Supreme Court. (People v. Lofchie) For background, see http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/04/lofchie-case-dismissed.html. Finally, it appears that a suit challenging a
UC patent by a “patent troll” was dismissed with prejudice. We earlier reported on this case http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-story-of-uc-and-troll.html.
4:20 pm Committee on Governance (Regents only session)
4:30 pm Board (Regents only session)
Thursday, January 22
8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session - public
comment session)
Probably more public
comments on tuition/funding.
8:50 am Committee on Finance (open session)
Includes discussion of
governor’s January budget proposal – about which the Regents (a majority of
them) are not happy.
9:45 am Committee on Health Services (open session)
Ebola update.
10:15 am Committee on Compensation (open session)
Rubber stamp Wednesday’s
big buck executive appointments and pay proposals. Possibly, there might be
objections from elected officials and the governor’s new regents.
11:00 am Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session)
More delegation to the
campuses to approve capital projects which, of course, always are absolutely
necessary and costless. Part I.
11:45 am Committee on Governance (open session)
More delegation to the
campuses to approve capital projects which, of course, always are absolutely
necessary and costless. Part II.
Noon: Board (open session)
This is the session
where the rubber stamp really gets busy regarding everything approved in
committees.
Anyway, surely things will work out well:
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