We continue catching up with last week's Regents meeting, arriving now at the afternoon of November 15th. The National Labs Committee heard a presentation on the Los Alamos National Lab - the home of the Manhattan Project. UC became connected with Los Alamos 80 years ago in 1943. (Yours truly speculates that the review of Los Alamos at this time may have something to do with the new Oppenheimer movie.) In more recent years, there has been an effort by the Lab to have a southern California connection to UC campuses. Regent Hernandez pushed for the extension of that effort to UC-Merced in his comments.
Compliance and Audit heard a brief review of various audits undertaken during the past academic year. The cyber security element was stressed in response to questions.
Public Engagement had a session via remote connection with Assemblymember Phil Ting. Not surprisingly, he pushed for increased undergraduate enrollment. He also predicted that future budgets would be "tougher" than in the recent past. The commitee then heard about issues in communicating matters related to climate change. Efforts of agriculture and related UC programs to reach out in Spanish were also reviewed. Finally, there was a review of philanthropy (fund raising by UC).
As always, we preserve the recordings of these sessions since the Regents have no set policy on duration of retention.
National Labs and Compliance and Audit can be seen at:
Public Engagement and Development is at:
The general web address for the afternoon of Nov. 15 is at:
https://archive.org/details/national-laboratories-committee-compliance-and-audit-committee.
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