From CalMatters: The University of California serves 300,000 students, yet only one of the two students on the 26-member Board of Regents is allowed to vote. Now, student leaders are campaigning for a second vote, saying it would better ensure that UC policy reflects all students...
Currently, the non-voting student spends the first year on the board as a “regent-designate.” That student then moves into the voting position the following year. The students are selected from an applicant pool of all UC graduate and undergraduate students and approved by the board. By adding a second vote for student regents, UC would follow in the footsteps of the other two public higher education systems in the state. Legislation passed earlier this decade enabled voting power for two student representatives on the California State University and California Community College governing boards...
In 2021, former Sen. Steve Glazer, a Democrat from Orinda in the East Bay, introduced Senate Constitutional Amendment 5, which would have required the creation of a second voting student regent. The Assembly Appropriations Committee determined that the amendment’s costs to the UC would be “minor and absorbable.” However, Glazer [said] that the committee decided the amendment would not progress, without specifying a reason...
Full story at https://calmatters.org/education/2025/11/uc-regents-student-voting/.
Note: The Regents experimented with appointing a non-voting student advisor briefly. The position ended in 2019. See:
Whether there will be any discussion of this matter, perhaps in public comments, at the upcoming Regents meetings is unknown.
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