Things Change - Part 3 (The Regents Are Meeting Today to Discuss Berkeley's Plight)

As we post this morning, the Regents are meeting to discuss the implications of the dissolution of the Pac-12 on Berkeley. We have reproduced the closed-door agenda below. Note that the justification for having a closed-door session is said to be "litigation." Not clear who might be suing. The notice gives 14 postal addresses of the participants, so something like that number must be taking part. (There could be guests and staff apart from Regents and possibly more than one person at a location.) But evidently, not all Regents are participating.

Notice of Special Meeting, August 8, 2023

A meeting of The Regents is scheduled for August 8, 2023 by teleconference. 

Teleconference locations: 

-106 E Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT

-1115 11th Street, Sacramento, CA

-1414 O Street, Sacramento, CA

-3299 Holiday Court, La Jolla, CA

-631 C Avenue, Coronado, CA

-12011 San Vicente Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

-500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA

-2500 Steiner Street, San Francisco, CA

-2791 24th Street, Sacramento, CA

-760 Lausanne Road, Los Angeles, CA

-880 Camino Del Mar, San Francisco

-10 Killebrew Lake Road, Orcas, Washington

-3200 Sawtelle Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

-6629 Round Oak Road, Penngrove, CA

Date: August 8, 2023

Time: 7:00 a.m.

Agenda – Closed Session

B1(X) Discussion UC Berkeley Pac-12 Conference Membership

Closed Session Statute Citation: Litigation [Education Code §92032(b)(5)] 

Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/aug082023.html.

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Meanwhile, there is speculation that Berkeley and Stanford could join the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), a move which raises significant travel-time issues. See:

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/38152204/acc-begin-discussing-cal-stanford-additions.

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Separately, on Wednesday, August 9, 2023, there will be a closed-door session of the Special Joint Meeting of the Governance Committee and Finance and Capital Strategies Committee concurrent with the Working Group on Equitable Student Employment Opportunities. The Working Group was created to discuss the possible hiring by UC of undocumented students. This meeting is supposed to run from 8:30 am to 9:30 am at UCLA. If it runs significantly overtime, it will delay the start of the Health Services Committee scheduled for 10 am. See:

https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/aug23/workinggroup8.09.23.pdf.