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Listen to the Regents Meeting of Jan. 17, 2013

Byuclafaculty

This post completes our archiving of the Regents meetings of January 15-17, 2013.  Check our posting of June 30 for an explanation as to why we are archiving these meetings (and why it should not be necessary).  Below is the agenda of the Jan. 17 meeting: Agenda: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:30 am Committee of the Whole – Public Comment (open session) 8:50 am Committee on Finance (open session) 11:00 am Committee on Governance (open session) 11:15 am Board (open session) Click on the link below to hear the meeting:

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More Scrutiny of University Enterprise Tax Exempt Status

Byuclafaculty

Pay up! We have from time to time noted the potential tax problems of the UCLA Grand Hotel project.  More generally, there is growing scrutiny of commercial-type activity conducted by universities that claim tax exemptions.  Inside Higher Ed today points to a court decision that questions Princeton’s tax exempt status.  It links to a local New Jersey newspaper: A lawsuit that argues Princeton University violates the provisions of its tax-exempt status survived a university-led attempt to throw the case out Thursday. Plaintiffs in the case argue that, because Princeton is earning hundreds of millions of dollars in patent royalty income…

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Changing Demographics

Byuclafaculty

The Sacramento Bee today carries this demographic chart showing the Latino and white/non-Latino populations are roughly equal in California at present and the relative growth in the Latino population is projected to continue.  Due to citizenship and voting propensities, the white/non-Latino group still predominates in elections.  However, the times, they are a’changing – as the song goes – with implications for UC and higher ed in California more generally. The article that accompanies the chart can be found at:http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/01/5536254/latinos-poised-to-catch-up-with.html In a related article on the impact of Prop 209, the LA Times notes: …Latinos’ presence, after a temporary dip, has…

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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]