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Listen to the Jan. 16, 2013 Afternoon Meeting of the Regents

Byuclafaculty

Don’t worry.  Gas mask not needed to listen to Regents.. We have been posting past (2013) meetings of the Regents because of their current archiving policy.  For more details on why this is necessary to preserve the record of these sessions, scroll down to our June 30, 2013 posts. Much of the afternoon of Jan. 16 was taken up with closed sessions which are not available.  Included in the open discussions was a proposed medical building at UCLA (about which we have previously blogged) which is controversial because of the costs involved. Below is the agenda: 1:15 pm Committee on…

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Listen to the Meeting of the Regents Jan. 16, 2013 – morning (online education)

Byuclafaculty

Our previous post noted that we are going back through 2013 to post and archive audio of Regents’ meetings.  See the previous post for why it is necessary to do this (and why it shouldn’t be). The morning session of January 16, 2013 was devoted largely to online higher education, essentially at the “request” of Governor Brown. Agenda: Wednesday, January 16 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session – includes public comment session)9:30 am Committee on Educational Policy (open session)12:00: Lunch You can hear the session at the link below:

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Listen to the Regents Meeting of Jan. 15, 2013

Byuclafaculty

Why are we going back in time to last January?  The Regents had been live-streaming audio of their meetings prior to January 2013 but not archiving the audio files.  So we would request the files and – once they were received on CDs sent by postal mail – archive them.  Of course, this process took some time to accomplish so the files were not immediately available after the meetings.  Unless you listened live, you had to wait, even with our eventual archiving. Finally, the Regents – who keep pushing for high techy online ed – were embarrassed by their own…

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UCLA History: Knudsen in the News Today

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Vern O. Knudsen Today’s LA Times has an article about the shuttering of the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.  Included in that article is this brief note (below) about Vern Knudson who was chancellor of UCLA in 1959-60 and after whom a building on campus is named: …The main hall also featured metal acoustical panels and wall sconces, attributed to Vern O. Knudsen, an authority on architectural acoustics who also served, briefly, as chancellor of UCLA… Full article at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-santa-monica-civic-20130630,0,7440128.story Note: As I recall, the Auditorium’s problems stem from one of the byproducts of the state budget crisis of recent years:…

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Gone

Byuclafaculty

According to LAObserved, Jerry’s Deli in Westwood just south of UCLA closed yesterday as the result of a rent dispute. Story at http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/06/another_deli_down_jerrys.php Rent is always a problem:[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwJ-mpoR0lo?feature=player_detailpage]

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No Mandate for Online Ed at UC: Let’s Pretend!

Byuclafaculty

Our post last night that the governor line-item vetoed his own $10 million mandate in the new state budget for online courses at UC is correct in a literal sense. But what appears to have happened is that UC – which doesn’t like overt mandates which challenge its constitutional autonomy – agreed that it would spend $10 million on online ed anyway if the governor would just remove the mandate language. From Inside Higher Ed today: …“We’ve made a commitment to provide the $10 million, so it’s not going to affect our plans,” said Steve Montiel, a spokesman for the UC…

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More Night Closures in the Sepulveda Pass

Byuclafaculty

Tough to get in. It will be hard to get into segments of Sepulveda Blvd. at night during the first half of July. From the Brentwood Patch: Kiewit is scheduled to resume work involving the night time full closure of Sepulveda Blvd. between the Skirball Bridge and Mountaingate starting Monday, July 1 for approximately two weeks between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.   The anticipated dates of the full closure of Sepulveda are July 1-2 and July 8-13 between the hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Full story at http://brentwood.patch.com/groups/announcements/p/sepulveda-blvd-to-get-widened-at-skirball-bridge So it will be tough to get…

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Online Ed Earmarked Money Line-Item Vetoed

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Michael Meranze, in commenting on the previous post, noted that among the items vetoed by the governor was language that earmarked $10 million at UC for online ed courses.  As readers will know, that earmark was in the budget bill at the request of the governor.  Other quasi-earmarks were also vetoed.  The actual language doesn’t delete dollars from the UC budget – which is why I missed it in the prior post.  It just deletes specifications for how dollars are to be used.  The veto language reads: Item 6440-001-0001 — For support of University of California. I revise this item…