What the Regents have been provided is a very lengthy description of various disciplinary processes and procedures, but without numbers.** There are no data on the actual number of cases processed, how long the actual processing took (averages, distribution), trends in the data, etc. In effect, there is an information overload with some crucial information omitted. That seems like a risky strategy, if it was a strategy. If the true answer is that there are no data, the missing information itself raises questions.
Will the Regents be happy with this report? Or will it raise more concern than already exists and ultimately be of harm to faculty interests?. We will see what is said in public. We will not know what might be said in private. If yours truly were a Regents, he would not be happy.***
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*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg84osKAXB8.
**https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan25/a5.pdf.
***The meeting comes just after an article appeared in the LA Times: "Serious misconduct alleged in report former UCLA professors sought to block. They moved on with no discipline," https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-19/ucla-professors-orthodontics. The article reports UCLA tried to keep a report on this matter secret, but was forced by litigation to disclose it. You can be sure this item will be known to the Regents.
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