As always, we have preserved indefinitely the audio of the recent UC Regents meeting of Nov. 18-19 via Zoom. The Regents - for no good reason - keep their recordings for only one year.
The full board met on the morning of Nov. 18. The official segment was largely ceremonial with statements by board chair Pérez and UC President Drake. Pérez did note the defeat of Prop 16 which would have permitted affirmative action for UC admissions. However, the reasons for the defeat were not explored. (As blog readers will know, yours truly has suggested that the Regents' action in ending use of SAT/ACT combined with their endorsement of Prop 16 may have played an inadvertent role in that defeat.) President Drake referred to the importance of a flu shot in the context of the coronavirus crisis. The public comments period featured speakers discussion labor relations issues - notably the "curtailment" program implemented to produce budget savings and allowance for paid leave due to the coronavirus - healthcare of nurses including testing for coronavirus, treatment of autism at UCLA, financial aid for undocumented students, tuition for Native American students, transfers from community colleges, the SAT, funding for UC-Riverside, UC-San Diego's Theater District project, and the Aggie Square project of UC-Davis.
The Public Engagement and Development Committee was largely devoted to transfers from community colleges and roadblocks to such transfers. At Compliance and Audit, there was discussion of the UC admissions process in the context of a report recently issued by the state auditor in the wake of the admissions scandal. UCOP (in the person of Provost Brown) indicated that the report of the auditor had just been received and that there will be a more complete analysis for the Regents at a subsequent meeting.
Finally, the Health Services Committee approved a $560,000 salary for a chief information officer at UC-Davis' health system to be paid out of nonstate funds. Although the salary was above the median for a salary survey of such officers, it was said that Davis had experienced a problem in recruiting for the position.
You can find audio recordings of the various sessions at the links below for listening and/or downloading:
Full Board followed by Public Engagement and Development:
Compliance and Audit:
Health Services:
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