UCLA Faculty Association: Watch the Afternoon Regents Meeting of Sept. 21, 2022

We are catching up with the Regents meetings of September 20-22. We have already posted about the meetings of September 20 and the morning of September 21.*

In the afternoon of September 22nd, there were meetings of Finance and Capital Strategies, Governance, and Academic and Student Affairs. The Finance and Capital Strategies Committee mainly approved various capital projects. The Governance Committee dealt with executive pay matters.

A summary of the discussions at Academic and Student Affairs appeared in the Daily Cal:

The Academic and Student Affairs Committee discussed various programs relating to transfer students, academic opportunities for freshmen and UC involvement in state-driven efforts against climate change. During the meeting, regents accepted the CCC-UC Transfer Task Force’s final report, which aims to strengthen post-secondary transfer to a UC school specifically from a California Community College... The report includes a series of recommendations addressing increased educational access, better data usage and more robust financial aid.

“The recommendations are certainly not exhaustive of the work that might be done to improve transfer from the CCC to UC, but they do include targeted and realistic actions that both institutions can take to better facilitate and support students,” said Michael Brown, provost and executive vice president for UC academic affairs. “There’s never been a greater opportunity for California to be a national model for inclusive success of transfer students.”

The committee also discussed transfer and freshmen pilot programs, such as the UC Dual Admission pilot program, which allows freshmen who have not completed their UC admissions requirements to apply simultaneously to CCC with conditional admission to a UC campus. The LIFTED program, a collaboration with prisons and community colleges to offer a bachelor’s degree to students transferring from state prisons to UC campuses as juniors, was also highlighted.

The committee eventually pivoted to discuss the $100 million climate action research state grant program led by Theresa Maldonado, UC vice president for research and innovation.

“When you look at all of (the UC campuses) collectively, the expertise is rich. From science and engineering, economics, policy, education and so on,” Maldonado said at the meeting. “We also collectively have unique facilities and test beds that we could leverage … to look at solutions to address climate change.”

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/2022/09/21/uc-regents-approve-229m-for-evans-hall-replacement-bechtel-center.

As always, we preserve the recordings of the Regents meetings indefinitely since the Regents - for no apparent reason - delete them after one year. You can find links to the recordings below.

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*http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/watch-regents-meeting-of-sept-20-2022.html and http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/09/watch-morning-early-afternoon-meetings.html.

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You can find the afternoon meetings of September 21 at the links below:

https://archive.org/details/academic-and-student-affairs-committee-9-21-22-pm

Academic and Student Affairs:

https://ia801409.us.archive.org/1/items/academic-and-student-affairs-committee-9-21-22-pm/Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%20Committee%209-21-22%20PM.mp4

Finance and Capital Strategies:

https://ia801409.us.archive.org/1/items/academic-and-student-affairs-committee-9-21-22-pm/National%20Laboratories%20Committee%2C%20Finance%20and%20Capital%20Strategies%20Committee.mp4 (starts at around minute 19)

Governance:

https://ia601409.us.archive.org/1/items/academic-and-student-affairs-committee-9-21-22-pm/Governance%20Committee%209-21-22.mp4

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