Watch the morning session of the Sept. 20, 2023 Regents meetings

The morning of Sept. 20 began with a meeting of the full board to hear public comments. Comments covered climate change issues at UC, complaints concerning a student dismissal, union issues, pay issues, Black student issues, UC employment of undocumented students, graduate student financial issues, disciplinary actions taken againt graduate students in the post-strike period at UC-San Diego, a science project at UC-San Diego, child care facilities, a sports connection between UC-Merced and New University in Florida, anti-semitism, handling of grievances related to the student-worker contract settlement, and the current hotel strike. Regent Pérez interjected in response to the last issue that he is available for mediation of that dispute. After a demonstration, the room was cleared.

After that point, President Drake gave a review for the new academic year. Regent Pérez asked that public comments be resumed because some speakers had been excluded due to unexplained confusion about admission to the conference room. The comments - about the hotel strike - were then heard.

At Finance and Capital Strategies, project requests were reviewed and accepted except for a proposed UCLA. We have previously blogged about that issue which involved a proposal for a building with small room and three-in-a-room. After various objections were raised, the issue was deferred to the next day.*

Academic and Student Affairs reviewed various programs including Climate Action, preparation of pre-K-12 teachers, and UC-assisted college level courses available in some high schools. There was also a budget preview with more to be presented in November.

As always, we preserve recordings of Regents sessions since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. Below are links to the morning sessions of Sept. 20:

Board and Finance and Capital Strategies:

https://ia904700.us.archive.org/14/items/regents-board-finance-committee-9-20-23/Regents%20Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%209-20-23.mp4

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Academic and Student Affairs:

https://ia904700.us.archive.org/14/items/regents-board-finance-committee-9-20-23/Regents%20Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%209-20-23.mp4

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General web page for morning session:

https://archive.org/details/regents-board-finance-committee-9-20-23

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*See https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2023/09/if-we-cant-shrink-room-maybe-we-could.html.