UCLA Faculty Association: Watch the morning & early afternoon meetings of the Regents: Sept. 21, 2022

Errata: In our previous coverage of Day 1 (September 20) of the Regents meetings last week, we listed the topics covered in public comments.* There was a confusion between Day 2 and Day 1.

The Day 1 list should have been greenhouse gas and climate issues, Hawaiian telescope, labor relations, and anti-abortion. The Day 2 list was instead included for Day 1.

Day 2 topics were COVID vaccine mandates, antisemitism, climate change, the Hawaiian telescope, transfer students, undocumented students, labor relations, fossil fuels, and abortion. Some speakers seemed to think that Governor Newsom - who is an ex officio Regent - would be present and wanted him to sign a bill dealing with nursing. Of course, he wasn't at the meeting.

Regent Chair Leib made it clear that the later discussion of the Regents in regards to the UCLA/Big Ten decision in open session would not in fact be reviewing that decision but would only focus on delegations of authority going forward. He said the Big Ten matter would be reviewed only in closed session. (As blog readers will know, the Regents did not announce any decision regarding the UCLA/Big Ten matter.)

As blog readers will know, the videos originally posted by the Regents had various deficiencies. In particular, the recording of Compliance and Audit was incomplete. We notified the Regents office and corrected videos were posted. In the relevant archive.org websites, we have posted both the original and the corrected videos.

In the Compliance and Audit session, the focus was on a state requirement that police departments - including those at UC - provide a listing of "military" equipment. There was some questioning of why different departments have different equipment. It was noted that none of the campus departments use drones. However, they have agreements with neighboring departments, some of which may have air support. The departments had various lists of equipment that they wished to purchase which the Regents have to approve.

At Public Engagement and Development there was review of activities of UC-San Diego including US-Mexico border areas. State Assemblymember Christopher Ward who represents the UC-San Diego area spoke to the committee. The discussion touched on the issue of UC contracting out.

At National Labs, approval was given for part of a requested sum for a childcare facility for Los Alamos. There was concern that the proposal was incomplete and therefore a partial sum was approved with the intent that the proposal would again be on the agenda in November.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/watch-regents-meeting-of-sept-20-2022.html.

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