In our continued coverage of last week's Regents meeting, we will jump over the Wednesday afternoon session and go to the full board meeting on Thursday. (We'll get back to Wednesday afternoon when yours truly has a chance to listed to those sessions.)
The Thursday full board meeting began with public comments. Topics included disabled students, mental health, pay cuts, the Hawaiian telescope, police, UC pension investments in a Laguna hotel which has a labor dispute, layoffs, preserving historic murals at UC-San Francisco, outsourcing, and access to data related to Prop 209.
There were various reports after the public comments. The graduate student representative noted problems with the UCPath payroll system in getting proper pay to grad student assistants. Dr. Carrie Byington reported on the strategic plan for UC Health, with much discussion of diversity, retention, and the effects of the coronavirus. General issues of "accountability" were raised. A review of how UC reacted in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008. There was discussion of Prop 209 (anti-affirmative action) and its possible repeal via Prop 16 in November. Note was taken of the adverse poll results on repeal that discussed in Friday's post on this blog.* The Regents enacted an anti-quota resolution, apparently to persuade voters that Prop 16 would not produce strict numeral quotas on admissions. Finally, there was approval of formation of an LLC (limited liability corporation) to capture revenue from university inventions at Berkeley and UCLA.
You can hear the recording of the meeting at the link below. Note that at the moment we cannot embed a player due to changes in the Blogger system. (The "legacy" system is no longer available on Blogger which permitted the embedding.) However, the link will take you to the recording:
https://archive.org/details/board-9-17-2020
(I have emailed Archive.org about the embedding issue.)
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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2020/09/did-regents-undermine-prop-16.html
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