Academic and Student Affairs Committee
Michael Brown, UC provost and UCOP executive vice
president of Academic Affairs, gave an update on the UC Center Sacramento, a
research and public service site in Sacramento operated by UC Davis. He said
the goals of the center include increasing student internships in state and
assembly offices, increasing student enrollment in the program and making
faculty available to both students and Capitol staff. Brown added the center
aims to increase student enrollment by 100 students per term in the next decade.
Thomas McMorrow, chair of the UCCS advisory
board, said UCCS connects faculty with students and Capitol staff more
effectively than the UC Washington Center program. The UCCS program hosts
biweekly lectures attended by not only students but also the staff of the
Capitol and government officials.
Griffin-Desta said female athletes graduate at an
overall higher rate than male athletes. For example, athletes in NCAA Division
I sports have a female graduation rate of 91 percent and a male graduation rate
of 79 percent. Christina Rivera, senior associate athletic director and senior
woman administrator at UCLA, said this is because male students have more
opportunities to pursue careers in sports. Three student athletes at the
committee shared their experiences and discussed ways to enhance
student-athlete welfare.
Hailey Rittershofer, a student athlete at UC
Davis, said as one of the first queer athletes at her school, she felt she did
not know whether her teammates would accept her, and suggested increasing LGBTQ
education among student athletes and supporting systems that allow athletes to
explore their identities outside of sports and academics.
Evan Singletary, a student athlete at UC Irvine,
said he hoped the University would provide more aid for student athletes. He
initially lost his athletic scholarship due to injury. He had to work many jobs
before earning back the scholarship his second year. However, Singletary said
many of his former teammates without scholarships are still working jobs to
make ends meet.
Brown said UCOP proposed a multiyear plan for
charging supplemental tuition for two graduate professional degree programs at
UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz. The Professional Degree Supplemental Tuition
aims to offset reductions in state support for professional schools, according
to the Regents’ website.
Rick Mintrop, the director of Leadership for
Educational Equity Program at UC Berkeley, said the program has lacked
resources in the past, and must increase tuition in order to remain
sustainable. LEEP is a professional program for people with backgrounds in
leading education organizations. LEEP students graduate with a doctorate of
education.
Regent Eloy Ortiz Oakley said he does not want to
place more financial burden on LEEP students, who are already working while
attending the LEEP program. He added he does not support charging the
supplemental tuition. Mintrop insisted the students are middle-class and able
to take out loans to finance their tuition.
The committee tabled the motion to increase tuition
through PDST for LEEP for further discussion in March.
Marilyn Walker, professor of computer science at
UCSC, proposed a PDST of $20,000 for UCSC’s one-year program in natural
language processing, which trains students to be engineers with expertise in
NLP. The supplemental tuition revenue would be used to hire an executive
director to work on outreach to the industry, and to hire graduate students who
would serve as teaching assistants and peer mentors.
The committee passed the motion to charge supplemental
tuition for UCSC’s NLP PDST program.
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Finance and Capital Strategies Committee
Dan Russi, UCPath Center executive director, said
UCOP is aware of the payroll issues UCPath has caused, and that it has caused
hardships for students. He added the majority of errors stemmed from
complexities such as multiple payment sources and data errors.
Mark Cianca, associate vice president of UCPath
Operational Services, said UCPath implemented corrective measures such as
notifying campus payroll teams in advance to finalize student pay and finding
pay errors before checks are drafted. UCPath also adopted measures to prevent
pay issues, such as implementing a team to address urgent pay issues and
strengthening student outreach, Cianca said.
The UCPath leadership team decided to delay the
final deployment from September to December 2019. UC Irvine also shifted its
deployment from March to December 2019.
Note: The official recording of the Finance and
Capital Strategies Committee was cut off before the session ended. We can only
present what was put online. (The January 2019 recordings of the Regents
sessions were plagued with early cutoffs.)
You can hear the recording of the Academic and
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