Earlier today, yours truly reported that he had received the message above by email indicating that the special mee(e)ting of the systemwide Assembly of the Academic Council had been "cancelled." But on a lark, he tried re-registering and lo and behold he received a Zoom link. And the meeting did occur. As noted, the meeting was focused on a resolution by petition expressing concerns about the sharing of names with the feds.
As it turned out, however, the original resolution had been modified by its drafters and, during the meeting, there were issues raised about the wording and proposed amendments.* Given the limited time, the assembly members voted to postpone discussion to the next regularly scheduled meeting on January 15, 2026. There was also some confusion about which episode of name sharing was being discussed. There was the Berkeley episode in which specific names were submitted and an earlier episode with redactions - names not given but general descriptions were provided.
The explanation I got for the cancellation notice was that maybe I was twice registered and that one registration was being cancelled. That seemed plausible except that since I re-registered, there would again be two and no second cancellation was received. ????
So we'll modify (amend?) Shakespeare and conclude that all's well that ends up being postponed.
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*The modified version is at https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/assembly/amended-resolution-special-assembly-11-20-25.pdf.
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