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Friday, October 9, 2026

As Prophesied

From the Daily Californian: The UC Office of the President is launching a pilot AI Student Corps in which selected UC students will provide AI coaching and support to UCOP employees.  “The goal is to help employees apply AI effectively to their everyday work,” said UCOP spokesperson Stett Holbrook in an email. “This can include prompting, drafting, document analysis, research and summarization, and simplifying repetitive workflows.” ...

While the positions are remote, the “embedded AI Coaches” will hold both one-on-one and small group coaching sessions as well as office hours. The six selected students will be compensated between $25 and $26.39 per hour...

Full story at https://www.dailycal.org/news/uc/need-a-job-uc-will-pay-students-25-an-hour-to-teach-employees-how-to/article_dc15e54a-f5f4-44dc-bc4d-38bc6812d4a7.html.

Straws in the Wind - Part 489

From the NY Times: The National Science Foundation, one of the biggest sources of federal research funding, withheld $1.4 billion that Congress had intended for research over the course of the past year... The extraordinary move — holding back about one-fifth of the N.S.F.’s primary research budget — is the latest sign of how the Trump administration is finding creative ways to work around Congress. Lawmakers from both parties have consistently opposed White House-led proposals to cut funding to major science agencies, including the N.S.F. and the National Institutes of Health.

...The White House wants to redirect the money to a limited set of administration priorities, including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, according to two people with knowledge of the administration’s plans. Congress appropriates money to the N.S.F. on two-year cycles, so the agency could still spend the held-over money in the new fiscal year... The White House and the N.S.F. said that diverting the money was allowed under Congress’s two-year appropriation...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/us/politics/national-science-foundation-research-funds.html.

For the record

As we posted on Tuesday, the Regents had a two-day retreat at Lake Arrowhead. Technically, you could have attended the open sessions, but only in person. Technically, you could have made a public comment by phone if you didn't attend in person. But there was no live streaming, so whether anyone other than the Regents and their staff participated is unknown.

Below is the agenda for the retreat:

Regents Retreat Agenda: October 6-7, 2026, Lake Arrowhead  (not live streamed)

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Tuesday, October 6, 2026 

8:30 am Board - (open session - includes public comment session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes)

Remarks of the Chair of the Board

Remarks of the President of the University

Reimagine Where and How UC Happens

Break

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of UC

Lunch

2026 Federal and State Matters

Long-Term Sustainability

Chancellor’s Panel

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Upon end of open session:

Board - (closed session) 

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of UC

Long-Term Sustainability

Closed Session Statute Citation: Collective bargaining matters [Government Code §3596(d)]

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Wednesday, October 7, 2026

8:30 am Board - (open session - includes public comment session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes)

Risks in the Health Enterprise

Health Governance 

Upon end of open session:

Board - (closed session) 

Public Comment Period (30 minutes) [This additional public comment period is likely a mistake on the published agenda since a meeting can't be both closed and public.]

Risks in the Health Enterprise

Closed Session Statute Citation: Collective bargaining matters [Government Code §3596(d)]

Leadership Priorities

Closed Session Statute Citation: Litigation [Education Code §92032(b)(5)]

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Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/agendas/oct2026.html.

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What can we learn from the agenda?

1) AI is a Big Deal. 

2) A major risk in the eyes of the Regents (or at least in the eyes of whoever created the agenda) to UC and UC Health is collective bargaining - since it is listed as the reason for closing the sessions on both days.

3) Litigation is a Big Deal. One surmises that the reference is to the current litigation with the feds.

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Cooler

From an email this afternoon:

BruinADVISORY: UPDATE – Normal Operations to Resume Tomorrow at 6 a.m.; Building Cooling Restrictions Lifted

Temperatures in impacted buildings will begin returning to normal tomorrow at 6 a.m.

This BruinADVISORY is being issued on behalf of UCLA Facilities Management.

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Dear Bruin Community:

With a return to lower temperatures and humidity levels in the L.A. region, the stage one cooling curtailment period in non-critical areas of our building facilities — as well as classrooms and recreational facilities — will end tomorrow, October 9, at 6:00 a.m., when normal operations will resume. Temperatures within affected buildings will return to their usual levels.

Cooling curtailment during high heat and humidity is crucial for allowing the campus to maintain adequate cooling in its most critical facility areas, including hospital and patient care settings, research space, vivariums, general assignment classrooms and data centers.

We apologize for any inconvenience this caused and appreciate your patience and cooperation. If you have any questions about the cooling demand response plan, please contact Sean Wilder at swilder@fm.ucla.edu.

Sincerely,

Kelly Schmader

Assistant Vice Chancellor

Facilities Management

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Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abB9wLz0VOM.

Watch the Regents Meeting of Sept. 16, 2026 - Part 1

Blog readers may have noted we are slow in summarizing the final day (Sept. 16) of last month's Regents meetings. Indeed we are, although we have covered the first two days. But it takes time to go through the recordings (which we always preserve). So we are going to break Sept. 16's meeting into two parts and deal with part 1 here. We will get to part 2 when we can.

The meeting began with public comments. Many comments opposed the closing of a childcare program at UCLA. There were also several anti-SAT comments. There was also a pro-SAT comment. Other comments included opposition to Prop 38, housing for student-parents, renewable electricity, financial rewards at UCLA Health, support for the Berkeley litigation settlement on antisemitism, anti-Israel, and limits on the entity that will occupy part of the former Westside Pavilion.

After public comments, there was a grad student presentation expressing concerns about federal funding, basic needs, and childcare among other issues. An undergrad presentation expressed concerns about a privatized model of UC, ICE, disabled students, childcare, diversity, TPM, AI, and the SAT. A brief demonstration occurred but not enough to lead to a clearing of the room or a significant interruption. 

There followed a presentation on AI and UC. Topics included cybersecurity, cost, data centers, access, a faculty and student usage. There was a theme about a need for a systemwide approach, partnerships with outside firms and DOE, the need for a legal framework including liability, the impact on student assessment and teaching and the inconsistent policies currently in effect. Centralization seemed to be favored, in part due to the costs of infrastructure. It was noted that unlike the various early dot-coms, AI is being monetized upfront. It was suggested this difference could lead to inequity. The idea of a "kill switch" was discussed and it was said there isn't such a thing now. 

There was discussion of the history of testing at UC. It was stressed that this was a discussion item only; no decisions would be taken. Testing, it was said, arose out of the Master Plan of 1960 and concern that UC was admitting more than the top one eighth of California students. However, when the SAT was required in 1968, there was never an official cutoff score. Reviews of the SAT were undertaken in 2002 and 2009. A 2019 task force recommended continued use. But a combination of the pandemic and litigation led to the current test-free policy.

Two admissions officers - one from UC-Riverside, one from UCLA - made presentations. And a member of the committee that proposed continuing the SAT also testified, although he seemed to be a dissenter. Editorial comment: Would you really expect admissions officers to say that they are doing a deficient job now due to the absence of testing? They didn't, of course. All is well, they said. And if you wanted to hear a diversity of views, they clearly could have been on offer, given the campaign by many faculty for resuming use of the SAT. Regent Sures wanted to know what other universities are doing. Regent Park wanted to hear about the impact on STEM (as opposed to general data on graduation rates). Regent Arias was concerned about high schools that don't offer advanced courses and other problems in K-12.

We will get to the rest of the meeting (Part 2 of Sept. 16) when we can. 

Meanwhile, the full meeting of Sept. 16 is at https://archive.org/details/regents-9-16-2026. The specific recording of what is summarized above is at:

https://ia801003.us.archive.org/31/items/regents-9-16-2026/Board%2C%20Academic%20and%20Student%20Affairs%209-16-2026.mp4. (Beginning through 2:55:15)

Straws in the Wind - Part 488

From Inside Higher Ed: The Department of Justice... filed its 26th lawsuit targeting policies that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates. The lawsuit, against the University of Delaware, is the first of these DOJ cases to target an individual institution rather than a state or municipal government.  The lawsuits have already ended in-state tuition for undocumented students in Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, impacting an estimated 180,000 undocumented students. Florida pre-emptively eliminated its policy in February 2025 and recently barred undocumented students from enrolling in any selective public university. At least 220,000 other undocumented students live in states where litigation is ongoing, according to data from the Higher Education Immigration Portal.

The complaint against the University of Delaware specifically seeks to prevent the institution from offering in-state tuition to undocumented students, even if they are lawfully present in the United States, and stop them from enacting any new policy that would “favor illegal aliens over U.S. citizens,” according to a news release...

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/10/02/u-delaware-sued-offering-noncitizens-state-tuition.

Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 202

From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 quietly convened a University-wide committee of faculty members to develop a new vision for scientific research over the next several years, according to six people familiar with the matter. The group, known as the Science Advisory Committee, formed over the summer, one person said, and includes roughly 15 to 20 faculty members. It is chaired by former Provost Steven E. Hyman and Immunology Department Chair Arlene H. Sharpe ’75, that person and one other said...

The push to develop a coherent, University-wide strategy for the next era of scientific research — and one explicitly tied to fundraising — is the most concrete step the University has taken to rethink its approach to research since the government froze nearly $2.7 billion in Harvard’s funding in spring 2025. University officials have said for the past year that Harvard will need to diversify its funding sources in response to unreliable government support for scientific research... There are now early signs of that work around the University. The Alumni Affairs and Development office launched a new team focused on “transformational giving” after a spring reorganization...

Earlier this week, one of the University’s biggest donors, Kenneth C. Griffin ’89, who paused his giving to Harvard to 2024, announced a $3 billion gift to Carnegie Mellon University, the largest single gift in the history of U.S. higher education...

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/10/2/garber-science-advisory-committee/.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Who is in? Who is out?


The systemwide Academic Senate is circulating a letter from UC President Milliken to the chancellors regarding shared governance for clinical faculty who are not members of the Senate. Only ladder faculty, in residence faculty, and clinical X faculty are members. There is concern about lack of shared governance for clinical faculty who aren't. Apparently, a proposal to add them to the Senate was earlier rejected.

...As the University of California’s health enterprise has grown, the growth in some faculty series, notably the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series has raised questions about how to best integrate clinical faculty into University governance. Faculty in the Clinical X, In-Residence, and Ladder-rank series are members of the Academic Senate. However, the majority of clinical faculty are in the Health Sciences Clinical Professor series, which is not a faculty series in the Academic Senate.

Non-Academic Senate clinical faculty requests for a role in shared governance were noted in a 2020 task force report. To begin to address these concerns, a Special Committee on Health Sciences and Clinical Affairs was then formed. From 2024 through 2025, under then-President Michael Drake’s tenure, non-Academic Senate clinical faculty, Academic Senate leadership, and UC’s health science schools proposed various approaches to expand access to University governance for clinical faculty. However, the issue remains largely unresolved to this day...

Full letter and other documents at:

Comments concerning establishing some alternative method of representation are due in mid-November. There has also been a suggestion of raising the limit on the number of clinical X faculty, presumably to allow some conversion of clinical faculty to the clinical X series - which would put them in the Senate.

Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 201

From the NY Times: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal judge to compel Harvard to hand over records in the agency’s investigation into what it described as “systemic discrimination” in the university’s employment practices, particularly against white men. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts, the E.E.O.C. accused the university of noncompliance, escalating a legal battle that has been brewing for more than a year, court filings show.

Lawyers for Harvard have called the E.E.O.C.’s investigation part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to bring the university to heel. “The government has not concealed that its all-out campaign targets Harvard for the assertion of its constitutional rights,” the lawyers wrote in a June motion, which the agency included in the lawsuit filed on Tuesday. Harvard’s lawyers noted that Andrea Lucas, the Republican chair of the E.E.O.C., filed her civil rights charge against Harvard in April 2025, four days after the university sued the federal government for freezing $2.2 billion in funding.

...Ms. Lucas has been keen to use what are known as commissioner’s charges — allegations based not in a complaint from an employee, but on an E.E.O.C. commissioner’s belief that a violation of the law may have occurred...

Full story at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/business/economy/harvard-eeoc-diversity-hiring.html. 

Straws in the Wind - Part 487

News release from Yale Faculty Senate: The Yale FAS-SEAS Faculty Senate’s Instructional Faculty Committee completed a report calling for stronger job security, greater compensation and a stronger voice in university governance for instructional faculty. Submitted to the Senate on September 10, 2026, in closed session and published over the weekend, the report brings together recommendations from four prior Yale reports on instructional faculty issued between 2017 and 2026 and urges university leaders to establish an implementation schedule and track progress annually.

The report comes in response to cuts to lecturer ranks last year and the negative climate for instructional faculty present in the 2025 University-wide Faculty Climate Report. Instructional faculty comprise roughly 40% of FAS-SEAS faculty and are widely held to teach a greater percentage of undergraduate students annually than ladder faculty. The report also comes in response to the Report on Trust in Higher Education, which called for a renewed centering of teaching, and the university’s new mission statement, which elevates the place and practice of teaching at Yale...

Full release at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fzwRyc4bYfZP0qJKuRvfhqh9CoxnClxD/view.

Newsom in the 3rd Quarter


As blog readers may know, we keep track of Gov. Newsom's activities, particularly his not-a-campaign for president, on a regular basis, combined with other related political events. He doesn't pay much attention  to UC, except mentioning it in extolling the California economy. Unless there is some highly unlikely event, Xavier Becerra will be the next governor. However, he will be coming in to office in January facing a constitutional requirement to present a budget. Much of the legwork will, of necessity, have been done in the next few months by Newsom's Dept. of Finance group. In any case, our Newsom & related files on the Internet Archive for July-September can be seen at:

https://archive.org/details/newsom-7-1-2026-savings-accounts-for-kids.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

We're still looking for numbers and definitions


As we have pointed out, UCLA administration keeps citing numbers - with regard to childcare closings and anything else in the budget while not providing the basic accounts. Where is an income statement for 2025-26? Revenue? Spending? By unit? Where is a balance sheet? When "deficits" are cited, what definition is being used? Yours truly looked at the UCLA website and the latest year available is 2024-25:

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https://www.finance.ucla.edu/corporate-accounting/ucla-annual-financial-reports

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Yet, when it comes to justifying the childcare closure, the powers-that-be cite bits and pieces of data from fiscal year 2025-26. And apparently, the UCLA student newspaper has access to some kind of documentation for 2025-26. And there is reference to projections for the current 2026-27 fiscal year. From the Daily Bruin:

UCLA’s childcare centers are projected to incur a year-end budget deficit of $9.1 million ahead of their June 2027 closure, according to financial statements reviewed by the Daily Bruin. UCLA’s Early Care and Education centers, which primarily serve the children of UCLA faculty and students, will close in June 2027 because of budget issues, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced in an August email to parents. The university initially projected that ECE’s accumulated deficit would be $8.6 million by June 2027, but the figure was adjusted to include food service costs, a UCLA spokesperson said in an emailed statement.

...ECE’s projected operating expenses for the 2026-27 academic year are about $10.2 million, according to the documents. Parent tuition accounts for more than $6.2 million in revenue, and remaining costs are paid by the university, state funding and student fees, the documents said.

The childcare centers’ financial difficulties come as UCLA experiences broader budgetary woes. UCLA had a year-end budget deficit of $58 million for the 2025-26 academic year, down from its initial projections of $220 million, Chancellor Julio Frenk said in a September campuswide email...


State and local governments (cities, counties) all produce budget estimates and projections. This is a university. We are not idiots. Not even imbeciles. Not even morons.


So let's get the latest numbers out there. Not bits and pieces in "statements." Not in unnamed documents available to some, but not others. After all, "We are ONE UCLA." Just get them out there. How about it?

Something added

We have previously blogged about the missing January Regents meeting. But today and tomorrow, the Regents have added a meeting: a retreat. No, you're not invited. No, you're not invited unless you want to travel to Lake Arrowhead.

Source: https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/meetings/. 

Request for Dismissal

From the LA Times: In the University of California’s strongest rebuke yet of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against it, the university is asking a federal judge to throw out a Justice Department lawsuit accusing UCLA of enabling antisemitism, describing the case in court filings as “political coercion.” ...UC’s lawyers asked U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder in Los Angeles to dismiss the case filed four months ago, alleging the government is “weaponizing” civil rights laws and has no legal basis for the suit...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-01/uc-asks-judge-dismiss-doj-ucla-antisemitism-lawsuit.

Request for dismissal at https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28713336/ucla.pdf. Alternative: https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/UCLA%20asks%20for%20dismissal%20of%20DOJ%20case%209-30-2026.pdf.

Statement by UC President Milliken supporting the request: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-president-millikens-statement-universitys-motion-dismiss-department-justices-title-vi.

Straws in the Wind - Part 486

From the Yale Daily News: Around 81 percent of grades awarded at Yale College in the 2024-25 school year were either an A or an A-minus, according to a resolution by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senate. The 80.75 percent figure represents an uptick from 78.97 percent in the 2022-23 school year, the last year for which data is publicly available. The share had been trending downward since its peak of 81.97 percent in the 2020-21 school year, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new figure was included in a resolution that the FAS-SEAS Senate passed unanimously on Thursday to urge the College’s Committee on Teaching, Learning and Advising to develop policies that make grades more meaningful while preserving faculty authority and minimizing harm to students. Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis told the News earlier this month that the committee is set to release recommendations on grading in November...

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Senate Faculty Senate... unanimously passed a resolution on grade inflation, urging a Yale College committee to develop grading policies that keep grades meaningful while minimizing harm to students and faculty...

Full story at https://yaledailynews.com/articles/a-a-share-was-higher-in-2024-25-than-in-2022-23-faculty-report-shows and https://yaledailynews.com/articles/faculty-senate-says-new-grading-guidance-should-minimize-student-harm.

Parallel Blogs / Subscribing / Song

We have been putting out this blog since 2009 under the heading "UCLA Faculty Association" using the link:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/

The blog site was originally created by the then-executive director of the Faculty Association. As such, yours truly does not have control of the site; he is simply a blogger on it. So when technical issues arise, that can be a problem. Given that issue, we have been adding a parallel site with the same blog entries since July 23rd:

https://danmitchellsblogcontinues.blogspot.com/

We will be running the two in parallel for the indefinite future. Possibly, at some point we will switch to the new link.

If you read the blog using the Facebook page of Yousee Elayemeriti, you can continue to do so:

https://www.facebook.com/yousee.elayemeriti

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You can't subscribe directly. But you can subscribe indirectly to this blog via a service called Blogtrottr. Go to blogtrottr.com and fill in the URL for the blog:

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or

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and put in your email address. 

You will then receive an email at the email address you provided asking you to confirm. After you confirm, you will receive an email notification of new postings whenever they appear. If there are, say, three postings on a particular day, you will receive three notifications (one for each one). 

Note and full disclosure: There are ads on these notifications. 

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And here's a little song, based on the information above, composed by Gemini:

"Sharp and Clever Pen":


Or https://archive.org/details/sharp-and-clever-pen

Verse 1

I scroll the screen looking for some light

A voice that cuts right through the noise

They talk about the taxes and the spin

But Dan Mitchell has a different kind of truth

He talks about the spending and the waste

The parallel blogs that keep us truly free

Independent channels are the only way to go

To find the analysis the mainstream never shows

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Chorus

Get real economic facts!

Escape the corporate tracks!

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You don't need their filters and you don't need their spin

Just some liberty and facts to help you really win

Bookmark the connection and let the truth begin to flow

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Monday, October 5, 2026

Coming Soon

UC open enrollment is scheduled for Oct. 29 - Nov. 20 for health plans. There is likely to be news to consider, given the changing circumstances for such plans. At the moment, however, all we have is the dates: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/oe/.

Actually, not surprising

Anyone following the controversy over the termination of the woman's equestrian program at UC-Davis, will not be surprised that the matter is heading for the courts. As blog readers will know, the issue was repeatedly raised in public comments at Regents meetings. From the Sacramento Bee:

Months after the University of California, Davis eliminated its women’s varsity equestrian program, 19 former members of the team filed a class action lawsuit... against the UC Board of Regents over sex discrimination. UC Davis, they say, deprived all its female athletes of equal athletic financial aid for at least a decade, amounting to a violation of federal civil rights law...

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/education/article317429796.html.

Straws in the Wind - Part 485

From Inside Higher Ed: A day after it renamed the Obama Scholars Program “ASU Promise Plus,” Arizona State University made a U-turn. The university’s website [had] said ASU Promise Plus “was previously known as the Obama Scholars Program,” Axios reported. Spokesperson Jerry Gonzalez told the outlet, “ASU periodically reviews and updates program names to reflect the university’s priorities and the students served” and “ASU Promise Plus reflects the university’s continued commitment to expanding access and supporting Arizona students on their paths to degrees.” But... the program was once again named the Obama Scholars Program. 

...The scholarship program was established in 2005 and offers up to four years of tuition and fees for qualifying Arizona high school graduates, as well as assistance with housing and meal costs. ASU named the program after then-President Barack Obama in 2009, shortly after university officials faced backlash for not granting the president an honorary degree prior to his commencement address.

Full story at https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/09/28/asu-puts-obamas-name-back-scholarship-program.

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Vetoed


From Politico: Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a measure... that would have required the California State University to compile annual reports on students who violate campus protest rules... [It requested UC to do he same.]

Key context: Originally, AB 2551 would have repealed a 2024 law that was signed in the wake of student-led protests against Israel’s war against Hamas to establish restrictions on campus protests. The law, SB 1287, required universities to update their codes of conduct to address behavior that “creates a hostile environment for students” and instruct students on how to engage in civil exchanges.

...A number of Jewish organizations opposed the final version of Elhawary’s bill, citing concerns that it was a first step in an effort to repeal the protest rules. The measure was backed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the California Faculty Association and the University of California Student Association, who argue that the current protest rules have chilled speech...

Full story at https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/09/newsom-vetoes-measure-that-would-collect-campus-protest-data-01093919.

Text of vetoed bill at:

https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/AB%202551%20TEXT%20forum%20to%20discuss%20TPM%20rules%20vetoed%209-27-2026.pdf.

Veto message from governor at:

https://ia600402.us.archive.org/9/items/2-final-hjaa-report.-the-soil-beneath-the-encampments/AB-2551%20VETO%20forum%20to%20discuss%20TPM%20rules%209-27-2026.pdf.