Watch the Second Day of the Regents: Nov. 16, 2023

We are catching up with the second day of last week's Regents meeting. The morning board meeting of the second day of the Regents' November meetings (Nov. 16) consisted of public comments. Topics included graduate student housing, staff pay and health insurance costs, disabled students, the use of PhD students as TAs, undocumented student employment, antisemitism, anti-military programs and labs, divestment from Starbucks, anti-Israel, college admissions, divestment from Blackrock, and lactation stations. The meeting ended with an anti-Israel protest leading to clearing of the room.

In later sessions, the Health Services Committee approved a bonus for former health VP Byington. It was stated that such bonuses would not apply to subsequent health executives. 

At the board's second session, the USAC president reported on funding for CARE centers, transfer student issues, undocumented student employment, and students as parents. The grad student representative indicated a desire to work with the UC president and chancellors on Israel-Gaza issues. He endorsed UC-San Diego's decision not to prosecute student union workers after a demonstration on that campus. He also endorsed undocumented student employment by UC, mentorships for grad students, aid for disabled students, and improved emergency evacuation procedures for disabled students. 

President Drake reported that the issue of UC hiring undocumented students would require further study. Regent Pérez asked that Regental policies regarding faculty discipline be on the agenda in January.

At the Investments Committee, it was reported that from July 1 through the meeting, there had been a roughly zero return on pension and endowment investments. Hernandez asked about the Blackstone-REIT investment which CIO Bachhar defended citing the 11.25% return.

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As always, we preserve the Regents' meetings indefinitely because the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. You can see the Nov. 16th sessions at the links below:

Board-Morning:

https://ia801400.us.archive.org/30/items/16-health-services-committee-board-investments/16-Board.mp4.

Health Services, Board, Investments:

https://ia801400.us.archive.org/30/items/16-health-services-committee-board-investments/16-Health%20Services%20Committee%2C%20Board%2C%20Investments.mp4.

The general web address for the Nov. 16th meeting:

https://archive.org/details/16-health-services-committee-board-investments.