Follow up on discussion of use of dept. websites

Yesterday, we got ahead of our usual review of Regents meeting and discussed Wednesday's committee discussion of the use of departmental websites for political statements, known as Item J3 on the agenda.* That session ended with instruction for the working group's chair to come back with a policy statement that dealt with a variety of ambiguities and issues raised.

At the full board meeting, Regent Pérez asked that the board table J3 until it had gotten as thorough a review as another item dealing with whether UC could hire undocumented students. That item was undeer review by a special committee and was delayed. As blog readers will know, there are reports that the delay was due to legal issues and political concerns coming from the Biden administration**

The discussion was interrupted by an anti-Israel demonstration. After the room was cleared and the program resumed, the discussion on the motion to table started again. This time the motion was not geared to the timeframe of the undocumented student hiring issue. Instead, it was simply to defer consideration of J3 until the March Regents meetings. It passed despite some negative votes and abstentions.

As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meeting since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. You can see the relevant portions of the morning segment of the Regents meeting at the link below:

https://ia601306.us.archive.org/11/items/board-1-25-2024-am/Board%201-25-2024%20AM.mp4

The initial Pérez motion to table linked to the undocumented issue is at 1:00:52

The resumption after the demonstration with the motion to postpone until March is at 1:22:26.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/01/committee-discussion-on-use-of-dept.html.

**https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2024/01/now-it-is-revealed.html.