We continue our coverage of the most recent Regents meetings with the afternoon of Sept. 17th. As blog readers will know, the Sept. 16-17 meetings were unusually truncated since there was no third day. This shortening meant that there were periodic references to things that would be more fully dealt with at the November meetings.
At Finance and Capital Strategies, the consent items approved included an upgrade to a power system for UCLA health. There was discussion of the state budget outlook. It was noted that the so-called "compact" expires at the end of the coming year. Of course, it is unclear that one can say the compact was actually honored, particularly by the governor. As for the feds and the conflict there, UC gets about $17 billion in federal revenue from all sources (and UCLA gets $2.8 billion). Enrollment is running ahead of what the compact required although the extra students are not funded. Capital spending is not getting supported by the state.
The tuition cohort plan is up for renewal in some form, although that was put off for decision in November. The proposal for its replacement on the table retains the 5% per annum cap, reduces the proportion of tuition that is recycled into student aid, contains an alternative to the Consumer Price Index as an escalator with a price index for higher ed plus 1%, with the 1% to go to capital spending and other purposes. One might have expected some pushback to be expressed to the plan but there was little discussion.
At Academic and Student Affairs, Regent Leib started with an explanation of what happened to the $7 million that former President Drake had allocated after the disturbances began post-Oct. 7, 2023. Drake seemed to want the money to support some kinds of educational programming related to the history of the Middle East conflict, more or less similar to what occurred at some other universities, notably Dartmouth. According to Leib, however, $5.3 million was spent on training in cooperation with Hillel, mental health, and a "climate" survey. The rest apparently has not been spent. More detail will be made public in November.
There was then discussion of programs of career paths for students in coordination with employers. They involve occupational certificates and internships. San Diego and Santa Barbara have pilot programs looking specifically at the implications of AI. There was also discussion of teacher preparation in K-12 at Riverside and Merced.
The full Board heard discussion of AI and UC partnerships with major corporations in the field. President Milliken said there would be more information in November. But there was talk about infrastructure needs, cybersecurity, training for UC employees at all levels.
The Compliance and Audit Committee approved police purchase equipment defined as military. Finally, the Governance Committee took some executive pay actions and the full Board approved the various committee reports.
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As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meetings since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. The links are below:
Finance and Capital Strategy: https://archive.org/download/2-board-8-30-am-9-17-2025/3-Finance%20and%20Capital%20Strategies%20Committee%209-17-2025.mp4
Academic and Student Affairs: https://archive.org/download/2-board-8-30-am-9-17-2025/4-Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%20Committee%209-17-2025.mp4
Board and Compliance and Audit: https://archive.org/download/2-board-8-30-am-9-17-2025/5-Board%201_30%20PM%2C%20Compliance%20and%20Audit%209-17-2025.mp4
Governance and Board: https://archive.org/download/2-board-8-30-am-9-17-2025/6-Governance%20Committee%2C%20Board%209-17-2025.mp4
General webpage for Sept. 17: https://archive.org/details/2-board-8-30-am-9-17-2025
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