The Upcoming Regents Meeting

The Regents will be meeting next week. Their website now indicates that the first meeting - that of the Investments Subcommittee - will start on Tuesday. So there will be three days rather than the originally scheduled two days. (We have noted in past postings that it would be nice if off-calendar meetings of regental committees and subcommittees were listed well in advance on the website.)

The full posting of the schedule for the meetings is not yet available. What we have lacks the attachments. However, it appears there will be some items that we may never learn about about in closed sessions. The Investments Subcommittee will be discussing in closed session matters relating to personnel changes in the Chief Investment Officer's shop. An earlier post on this blog noted that there has been some controversy about how things are going in that operation.* Is that what is to be discussed? We won't know.

In a closed session of the full board on Wednesday, there is to be discussion of "Legal Issues Regarding Constitutional Autonomy." It's not clear what that is all about.

There are two matters that could spark controversy, or at least more than routine interest. Compliance and Audit will discuss sexual harassment issues in relation to the state audit. Academic and Student Affairs will discuss faculty diversity.

Finally, Finance and Capital Strategies will discuss the next UC budget (for 2019-20). To the extent that tuition might be discussed, it could be in the context of the budget.

You can find the upcoming agenda at:
http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/sept18.html
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2018/09/dirty-laundry-at-uc-investment-office.html