The third day of the Regents meetings of May - at least the public portion - was largely devoted to public comments, a lengthy presentation on Lawrence Livermore National Lab, approvals of committee reports of the previous two days, and a short open session of the Governance Committee to approve a contract with a UC-San Diego basketball coach.
Public comments included concerns about federal funding cuts for a STEM diversity training program, staff pay, undocumented student support, adverse impact on workers of UC-San Francisco's takeover of Children's Hospital-Oakland, anti-Israel remarks, union relations and negotiations for "frontline" workers, NSF grant cuts, civil liberties, anti-Hawaiian telescope (TMT), civil liberties, and needed repairs of Hilltop housing (at UC-Santa Cruz). Following the comments, there was a disruption over union issues and the Regents moved to another room.*
When the meeting resumed, Chair Reilly endorsed the expansion of UC-Riverside's medical program. As noted above, there was a presentation on the activities of Lawrence Livermore. (Yours truly - who is old and remembers the Cold War - has to note that once upon a time, the activities of what were then called the nuclear labs - because they dealt with The Bomb - was a matter of controversy. Somehow, the calls for "military" divestment nowadays don't seem to be linked to UC's role at Lawrence Livermore or Los Alamos. We seem to have, as they say, moved on.)
Stipends for advisors to the Health Services Committee were approved. Regent Leib on behalf of Academic and Student Affairs noted that the proposal for speeded-up faculty discipline would be presented at the July meeting. He also added there would be a related proposal for a process for students to complain if instructors pushed political viewpoints unrelated to class content in courses. And he mentioned the BOARS admissions controversy with the legislature. Notably, Regent (and Lieutenant Governor) Kounalakis - who is officially the presiding officer of the state senate - voted "no" on the report. Regent Makarechian again abstained on the report from Finance and Capital Strategies, presumably over the pension funding issue.
Apart from the short Governance meeting mentioned above, the rest of the Board's open session was devoted to ceremonial resolutions and statements regarding departing Regents and chancellors and, of course, President Drake.
As always, we preserve Regents meetings indefinitely since the Regents have no fixed policy on recording retentions.
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*According to the Daily Bruin, over twenty people were arrested. See:
Note: The Regents immediately moved to another room, suggesting that there had been some planning for the demonstration with another room available. Usually, when such protests occur, the existing room is cleared.
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You can see the May 15th meeting at the links below:
Full board at:
https://ia800303.us.archive.org/5/items/governance-committee-board/Board%205-15-2025.mp4
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Governance at:
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General link for May 15: https://archive.org/details/governance-committee-board.
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