Listen to the Wednesday (9-16-20) Morning Session of the Regents

The Wednesday morning (9-16-2020) meeting of the Regents began with public comments. Comments covered police, hospital access, layoffs, the theater district UC-San Diego project (pro and con), the Hawaiian telescope (pro and con), anti-vax, contracting out, international students, SAT-ACT, undocumented students, and nurse PPE. 

After the public comments, the full board hear comments from Chair John Pérez, President Michael Drake, and Faculty Representative Mary Gauvain. The remarks, coming at the beginning of the new academic year, were largely ceremonial. Dr. Carrie Byington gave a report on the coronavirus situation. She noted that while in the past UC has always followed CDC guidelines, of late she believed the guidelines were in some cases too loose. In particular, UC disagrees with the CDC notion of only testing students who had coronavirus symptoms.

The National Labs Committee then met and heard a presentation about a fellowship program at Lawrence Livermore. Finally, a brief open meeting of Compliance and Audit made some changes to the Internal Audit function at UC. The proposal was amended to indicate tighter linkage to the Regents.

You can hear the morning session at the link below:

Direct to https://archive.org/details/board-and-committee-meetings-morning-9-16-20