UCLA History: Mayor Speaks

Not all demonstrations on the UCLA campus during the Vietnam War opposed the war.  Above in 1966, LA Mayor Sam Yorty speaks to group supporting the war.

UCLA History: Fowler

Before the Fowler Museum moved to the UCLA campus, it stood on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills as this 1978 photo shows.

UCLA History: Children's Hospital

Photo from LA Public Library collection.  Photograph caption dated January 9, 1958 reads, "Marion Davies presents check for $1,500,000 to build a new Marion Davies Children's Wing at UCLA Medical Center to Edwin W. Pauley, chairman of the board of regents. Watching are Vern O. Knudsen, UCLA vice chancellor, and Dr. Stafford L. Warren (right), dean of the UCLA Medical School. An architect's sketch of the medical center is in the background." In 1998, the hospital was renamed the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA in recognition of the gift made to the hospital by Mattel, Inc. 

Audio of Regents Meeting of January 19 (Day 2 of 2 days)

Unlike Day 1, there was a demonstration during the public comment session during Day 2.  The room was cleared by the police.  Subsequently the Regents continued the meeting but apparently could not exit.  During Part 3 it was announced that the demonstrators had left the UC-Riverside building in which the Regents were meeting.

There are remarks in the record in Part 3 in which the governor is praised for giving UC permission to use general fund allocations for the pension system.  As noted previously on this blog, UC did not need permission and so the governor’s action meant little.  Indeed, UC – not that long ago – was told by the state that the state had no liability to the pension and that it was up to UC to fund it – presumably from general fund allocations.  What has changed, as readers of this blog will know, is that the Legislative Analyst has gradually come to acknowledge the need for the state to take some responsibility for the pension as it did before the two-decade contribution “holiday.”  Unlike the governor, the Analyst did not insist that UC be put under some statewide one-size-fits-all pension arrangement.

Agenda:

Part 1

8:30 am Committee of the Whole - public comment [ends in demonstration]

Part 2 [dealt with overview of UC-San Francisco]

8:50 am Committee on Finance (open session)

11:00am Committee on Educational Policy (open session)

Part 3

1:00 pm Board - open session [discussion of whether Regents might endorse governor’s tax initiative; concern expressed about Cal Grants cuts]

Full agenda with background materials is at:

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12.html

Audio links:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Latest State Cash Statement

There will be headlines about the latest cash statement - July 2011-January 2012 - issued by the state controller. Somewhat less revenue came in than forecast in the governor's January budget proposal (which contains estimates for 2011-12 as well as a proposal for 2012-13). But expenditures were a bit less than forecast, too, although some of that reduction was due to delayed payments by the controller.  Nonetheless, it is still quite possible that the current fiscal year's budget will be in rough balance, using common English parlance (inflow = outflow).  The issue remains of financing the past negative balance in the general fund that developed at the height of the Great Recession.

So before panicking over headlines, let's see how the budget goes over the next few months.

The controller's report is at:
http://sco.ca.gov/Files-ARD/CASH/fy1112_jan.pdf

Golly!

Arizona legislators are considering a bill that would punish college instructors whose speech or actions would violate broadcast obscenity standards...

Full story from Inside Higher Ed:

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/02/10/arizona-debates-legislation-classroom-obscenitiy-political-discrimination#ixzz1lzq3qZof 

Audio of Regents Meeting, January 18 (Day 1)

The Regents met on January 18 at UC-Riverside.  Day 1 was relatively calm.  The agenda is below.  (An angry demonstration occurred in the second day.)  You can hear Day 1 at the link below.

As usual, we raise the issue of why – since the Regents live-stream the audio of their meetings – they do not archive the audio.  The UCLA Faculty Association has to request the audio files and post them – which inevitably means a significant lag in availability.

The full agenda with links to relevant documents is at:

http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/jan12.html

Click on the links to listen:

Part 1

8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment)

9:30 am Committee on Educational Policy (open session)

Part 2

10:00 am Committee on Finance (open session)

10:45 am Committee on Health Services (open session)

11:15am Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (open session)

11:30 am Committee on Governance (open session)

Part 3

3:15 pm Committee on Grounds and Buildings (open session)