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Listen to the Regents: March 13, 2013 – morning session

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Our efforts to archive Regents meetings (since the Regents’ policy is currently to preserve them only for one year) continues.  Below is the agenda for the morning meeting of March 13, 2013.  Included was approval of a UCLA medical building about which cost concerns had been raised at an earlier meeting.  Eventually, the Regents seem to approve any construction project – even if concerns are raised – particularly when they are assured that it won’t cost them anything. Agenda for Wednesday, March 13, 2013 – morning8:30 am Committee of the Whole (open session – includes public comment session)9:30 am Committee…

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Listen to the Regents Meeting of Jan. 17, 2013

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

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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)

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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

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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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The Complete Regents Meeting for Your Listening Enjoyment AND a Note About the Governor’s Legitimate Question and the Absurd UC Response

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We have given you sections of last week’s Regents meeting in various postings.  And we have noted that the archiving policy of the Regents is a problem.  According to the Regents website, “Video 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.”  So the files apparently vanish.  Prior to 2013, the Regents provided no archiving at all, just a live stream of the audio.  We would then request the audio files and archive them elsewhere.  Since it appears that files will eventually vanish,…

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Listen to (Part of) Morning Session of UC Regents

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I had some trouble with recording this morning’s meeting of the Regents.  It began with a statement by UC President Yudof which included reference to the impending strike at UC hospitals (which UC is trying to enjoin).  During the public comment period, however, various union spokespersons said a strike would take place next week and the public comment session ended in a demonstration which led to a halt in the meeting (and transmission) while the room was cleared.  I did record the later meeting of the Committee on Finance.  Below is a summary and a link to a recording. Before…

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Listen to Radio Interview with President Yudof on UC Future

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Yesterday, KPCC’s Airtalk with Larry Mantle featured an interview with the heads of the three segments of higher ed in California: President Mark Yudof of UC, Chancellor Timothy White of CSU (and until recently Chancellor of UC-Riverside), and Brice Harris, Chancellor of the community colleges. The full broadcast ran about three quarters of an hour.  I have pulled out just the Yudof excerpts which run about one third as long. As blog readers will know, Yudof has resigned as UC president, effective August.  So he may now be a bit freer to say what he wants – but, of course,…

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Listen to What the Governor Said About the Higher Ed Budget

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In an earlier post, we described the elements of the state budget for 2013-14 proposed by the governor and noted that his remarks at the news conference where the budget was presented largely mirrored prior statements he made at the Regents. Below is a link to an audio of his remarks on higher education (UC and CSU).  Although most of the time at the news conference was devoted to other aspects of the budget, higher education came up several times including once at the portion of the event with Budget Director Ana Matosantos. You can hear his remarks – and…

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Listen to Gov. Brown Say He is President of UC at Nov. 27, 2012 Special Regents Meeting

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The Regents held a special meeting to approve the new UC-Berkeley Chancellor and the interim UC-Riverside Chancellor on Nov. 27, 2012.  You can hear that meeting at the link below.  Governor Brown , Lt. Governor Newsom, and one Regent (Zettel) voted against the pay package for the new Berkeley chancellor Nicholas Dirks which paid $50,000 in sslary more than the previous chancellor.  (The increment was from private funds.)  All three voted for the appointment but against the pay. Brown’s comments are particularly interesting and occur roughly between minute 5:50 and 10:50 on the recording.  He says that the state funding…