Watch the Regents Meetings of July 14, 2026

We are catching up with the Regents meetings of last week. We have already noted the ambitious plan set out in the meeting of July 14th by Chair Anguiano that seems to go beyond the immediate SAT issue, so we won't repeat that material here.

There were many public comments on the SAT issue, mainly, but not exclusively, urging reinstatement of the test. Other topics included use of license plate readers, hiring of UC of undocumented students, remote work for staff at UC, Muslim student issues, the Hawaii telescope project (TMT), anti-Israel, and the maintenance of a nature reserve. 

A new student regent-delegate was appointed after public comments. Chair Anguiano made her above-mentioned statement. President Milliken noted that Provost Newman would be stepping down. The faculty representative, Senate Chair Palazoglu, indicated that the Senate review of the SAT issue would be "deliberative."

There was then a presentation of the "UC Inspires" campaign emphasizing accomplishments of UC Health and its cooperation with the VA, scientific innovation and entrepreneurship, contributions to agricultural research, and "access" to UC.

At the Health Services Committee, an executive pay matter was approved. The rest of the Committee meeting was devoted to the statistical dashboard of various quality measures. Regent Park took note of some measures that indicated quality concerns and asked about responses. One issue noted was the "boarding" problem, i.e., patients who needed to be transferred or discharged but who were stuck in hospitals for various reasons.

The Compliance and Audit Committee approved audit and compliance plans. Note was taken in the presentation about cybersecurity issues.

As always, we preserve recordings of Regents meetings since the Regents have no policy on duration of retention. The general link for recordings of the July 14th meetings is:

https://archive.org/details/regents-7-14-2026.

The opening full Board session is at:

https://ia800703.us.archive.org/14/items/regents-7-14-2026/Regents-Board%207-14-2026.mp4.

Health Services and Compliance and Audit sessions are at:

https://ia600703.us.archive.org/14/items/regents-7-14-2026/Regents-Health%20Services%20Committee%2C%20Compliance%20and%20Audit%207-14-2026.mp4.

Note that the recordings at that link can be easily downloaded. The same is true for prior Regents meetings we have preserved. Go the "Download Options" at that link.