Closed Door (but a guess)

The Regents are having yet another meeting tomorrow about The Problem With The Feds.* You are not invited:

TO THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA:

Because the membership of the Advisory Group on Research and Programs Funding Legal Issues (“Advisory Group”) includes five members of the Regents’ Governance Committee, there exists the potential for having present a quorum of a Regents’ Committee when the advisory committee meets.

This notice of meeting is served in order to comply fully with pertinent open meeting laws. On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, there will be a Closed Session, Special Meeting of the Regents’ Governance Committee concurrent with the Advisory Group to discuss Research and Programs Funding Legal Issues (Closed Session Statute Citation: Litigation [Education Code section 92032(b)(5)].)

The meeting will convene at 4:00 p.m. at 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland and adjourn at approximately 5:00 p.m.

(Advisory Group members: Regents Anguiano, Cohen, Hernandez, Matosantos, Milliken, Reilly, Robinson, Sarris, and Sures)

Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/april26/meeting-notice_federal-april-7-2026.pdf.

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*Yours truly is willing to guess - without evidence as the phrase goes nowadays - that this meeting will include discussion of the recent court decision described below. From the LA Times:

Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts issued his order [last] Friday night in response to a lawsuit brought by California and 16 other Democratic-led states. The judge’s preliminary injunction applies only to public colleges and universities in the states that sued while the case proceeds through litigation. For now, the ruling grants a reprieve to the University of California and California State University systems, which said in court filings that the data request was onerous, rushed, risked student privacy and required administrators to track down hard-to-find information for hundreds of thousands of students that individual campuses log differently. In addition to race and GPA information, the Trump administration has asked for standardized test scores, grant aid amounts and family income...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-03/california-lawsuit-uc-csu-race-gpa-data-trump-administration.