The official UC announcement of the Napolitano appointment as president this coming September makes the following point:…By virtue of her appointment beginning after July 1, 2013, she will be included under the new tier of the UC Retirement Program. Full release at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/29782. What is there to say? Timing is everything and she’s too late:
We continue to provide alternative audio archiving of Regents meetings due to the regental policy of maintaining archives for only one year. As noted in the earlier post of the morning session, you can find this policy at http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/videos.html. The statement there reads: Video Archives of Regents Meetings: 2013Video files for past open session meetings of The University of California Regents and its Committees are available for one year after the dates of the meetings. Below is the official agenda for the afternoon session: Agenda, Thursday afternoon, July 18 [Approval of Janet Napolitano as new UC president] 1:00 pm Special…
We continue to provide alternative archiving of Regents meetings due to the regental policy of maintaining archives for only one year. For the record, you can find this policy at http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/videos.html. The statement there currently reads: Video Archives of Regents Meetings: 2013Video files for past open session meetings of The University of California Regents and its Committees are available for one year after the dates of the meetings. Below is the official agenda for the morning session: 8:30 am Committee of the Whole – Public Comment (open session) 8:50 am Committee on Compensation (open session) 9:00 am Committee on Educational…
Gov. Brown is out of the country and missed yesterday’s Regents meeting and won’t be at the meeting today. At the meeting scheduled for later today, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom might well attend. In the past, he has been against high pay for UC executives. But now he seems to have mellowed in the case of Janet Napolitano, the nominee for UC president. The Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert blog indicates that Newsom thinks the pay in store for Napolitano is OK: …UC has not yet revealed how much Napolitano will be paid. That information will be made public tomorrow after…
Most of the afternoon activity of the Regents on Wednesday, July 17, was in closed sessions for which no audio is available. The main item of interest in the open period was the privacy initiative, noted in an earlier post, which is a work in progress. Afternoon Agenda: July 17, 2013 1:00 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (open session – includes privacy initiative) 1:30 pm Committee on Compensation (closed session) 1:45 pm Committee on Compensation (Regents only session) 2:00 pm Committee on Governance (Regents only session) 2:10 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (Regents only session) 2:30 pm Committee…
As prior posts have noted, there is a lot in the news media about questions being raised about the nominee for UC president, Janet Napolitano. Now, with the nomination coming up in tomorrow’s meeting, there is spin in the news media to put the nomination in a positive light. From the San Jose Mercury-News: If Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is appointed UC president on Thursday, Californians will be getting more than just a big-name politician who has wrangled unwieldy bureaucracies and responded to natural disasters, supporters say.Those who have known Napolitano since her undergraduate days at Santa Clara University…
University of California Regents: July 17, 2013 – morning session Agenda: Wednesday, July 17 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session – includes public comment session)9:30 am Board (open session)9:40 am Committee on Finance (open session)12:00 Lunch(Note: Appointment of the student regent was moved from the 9:30 am session to after the Committee on Finance due to airplane delays that affected some regents.) Highlights: Outgoing UC President Yudof delivered observations that could be considered advice to the incoming president. He included a skeptical off-hand remark on the MOOC industry, noted that UCOP bureaucracy will tend to grow unless checked,…
Inside Higher Ed today is running a lengthy story about how former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels – now president of Purdue – intervened to block use of a history book in public higher ed institutions in his state. Excerpt below: Mitch Daniels, as an unconventional choice to become Purdue University’s president, has repeatedly pledged his strong commitment to academic freedom. And many professors — including some who had questioned the wisdom of appointing a governor as university president — have given him high marks for the start of his work at Purdue. But on Monday, the Associated Press published an article based on…
Inside Higher Ed today has a lengthy article on a MOOC stampede. That is, according to the article, public universities are rushing to sign no-bid contracts with MOOC providers: [excerpt] …While MOOC providers have been able to escape competitive bidding and sign major deals at large and prestigious institutions in a relatively short period of time, traditional technology deals by state-run institutions can require lengthy evaluations, said Phil Hill, a technology consultant who has advised higher ed institutions on learning management system procurements. “We’re in this situation that is sort of nonsensical,” Hill said. “So you have very strict procurement processes for pretty easy decisions,…
Los Angeles Magazine this month in its online edition includes this photo from the LA Public Library picture collection. A murder in 1932 is being investigated at the Village Theater in Westwood. It wasn’t a movie; it was real.
