Usually, morning meetings of the Regents on the "middle" day of a three-day session will include a full Board initial meeting and then some committee meetings. However, on July 16th, there was just the full board. The meeting began with public comments covering complaints about the UC ban on student government anti-Israel BDS, concerns about possible increases in tuition and decreases in financial aid, requests to rehire laid-off lecturers, professional school tuition, pay for hospital residents, nurse bargaining, student-parents, antisemitism, cuts in student assistance programs, library layoffs, DEI rollbacks, immigrant safety and FAFSA, staff layoffs in health care, health insurance and pay for staff, complaints about a construction contractor at UC-Santa Cruz, and complaints about the requirement at the Regents that any masks be transparent.
After public comments, Chair Reilly thanked the legislature and governor for the recently-enacted budget but noted concerns about the federal bill signed by President Trump on July 4th and adverse effects on UC.
Faculty representative Cheung - who was attending his final meeting as representative - cautioned about a planned online undergraduate degree, noted problems arising with international students visas and suggested a need for online programs to allow international students to finish their programs, voiced concern about cuts in federal research support, and referred to a decline in public perceptions of higher education.
Normally, UC President Drake would have made remarks but his term ends on July 31st and he was on vacation.
Finally, the new student Regent-elect, Miguel Craven, was introduced.
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As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meetings since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. You can see the morning meeting at:
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