The morning session (open component) of the Regents meeting of November 19 consisted solely of a full board meeting beginning with public comments. Several comments dealt with the proposed tuition stability plan which escalates the rate for each new cohort of undergraduate students and then freezes it for their career at UC. Complaints revolved around the impact on low income students, the impact on international students, or just the general idea of tuition increases.
Other comments dealt with support for undocumented students, support from SB 98 (notification of ICE agents on campus), complaints by the Carpenters union about inadequate medical coverage by a UCLA contractor, support for disabled students, loss of funding for employment of low income students, support for Latino post-docs, a complaint of anti-Israel indoctrination in a class, a UCFW dispute with an employer, anti-Israel divestment, and the high cost of textbooks.
There were then statements by Regent chair Reilly (who referenced the need for "fiscal prudence" in connection with the tuition stability plan) and by UC president Milliken (who spoke about the conflict with the feds, problems related to the state budget, a hiring freeze, and layoffs). Milliken advocated for full payment by the state under the "compact." These remarks suggested that the tuition stability plan was likely to be adopted in the afternoon session, maybe with small modifications. (There was a brief disturbance during Milliken's remarks.)
Faculty representative Palazeglu said the Academic Senate opposed any deal with the feds that conflicted with academic freedom. He noted the move from UCAD to UCAD-Plus.*
There was a special presentation by Regent Makarechian - which we noted in an earlier blog post** - dealing with his treatment for paralysis at UC-San Francisco as an illustration of the value of UC research.
Afterwards, there was a program devoted to the achievements of UC Nobel prize winners:
- Laureate and UCLA Professor Andrea Ghez, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
- Laureate and UCSF Professor David Julius, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- Laureate and UCSB Professor John Martinis, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for physics
- Laureate and UC Berkeley Professor Randy Schekman, winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
The Regents then went into closed session and discussed the conflict with the feds - which would have been very interesting to watch had it been open.
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As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meetings since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. You can find the Nov. 19th morning session at:
https://archive.org/details/1-regents-board-8-30-am-11-19-2025_202511 or
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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/08/ucad.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/09/ucad-part-2.html; https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/10/successor-to-ucad.html.
**https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/11/makarechian-on-value-of-uc-and-of.html.
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