Quiet Time

If you look back at special closed-door Regents meetings to deal with the conflict with the feds, quite a few occurred in calendar 2025.* There were two such meetings in January 2026. Those more recent meetings were short, suggesting that there weren't developments that required much deliberation.

If we look ahead, no such closed meetings are currently on the schedule for February and beyond, suggesting that in terms of actual negotiations with the feds, things are pretty quiet.

Perhaps the feds' attention has turned more toward Greenland, or Iran, or Minneapolis, and away from UCLA in terms of negotiations. They haven't forgotten about us, as a posting tomorrow will discuss. But it is reasonable to surmise that whatever discussions were going on have been paused.

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*https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/past-meetings/2021-2025.html#. Click on 2025.