Watch the Regents Meeting of May 18, 2023

In this post, we finish our summarizing of last week's Regents meetings. The May 18th session began with public comments at a meeting of the full board. Topics included the Hawaiian telescope, diverse enrollment, LSAT staff shortages, disability resources, undocumented student hiring, affordable textbooks, Munger Hall at UC-Santa Barbara, Israel-Palestine conflict, trans students, Blackrock and Blackstone, soda contracts, classes online during emergencies, the transfer program, post-strike cutbacks, UC-Berkeley student safety, and gun investment policy.

Afterwards, a committee to study the hiring of undocumented students was set up. The report of the Task Force on Institutional Growth which dealt with general UC goals through 2050 was endorsed. The report can be found at:

https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/may23/b3attach1.pdf.

It included goals under the following five headings:

(1) Reimagine how and where UC happens

(2) Reflect the diversity of California

(3) Achieve equitable student success

(4) Advance UC’s academic and research excellence

(5) Apply UC research and thought leadership to California’s biggest challenges.

The Governance Committee recommendations (postponed from the prior day) included some executive matters and creation of a committee to deal with athletics. The full board then approved the various committee reports and approved officers and committee members for the coming year. Finally, a joint meeting of Academic and Student Affairs and Finance and Capital Strategies focused mainly on the establishment of a nonprofit entity dealing with the Central Valley food system and other matters.

We continue to preserve videos of the various Regents sessions indefinitely since the Regents have no specified policy concerning retention of their videos online.

Videos of the May 18th meeting are at:

https://archive.org/details/board-5-18-23.

The morning Board session is at:

https://ia802606.us.archive.org/8/items/board-5-18-23/Board%205-18-23.mp4.

Governance, the joint meeting of Academic and Student Affairs and Finance and Capital Strategies, and the afternoon full Board is at:

https://ia802606.us.archive.org/8/items/board-5-18-23/Governance%2C%20Joint%20Meeting_%20Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%20%26%20Finance%20and%20Capital%20Strategies%2C%20Board%205-18-23.mp4.