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Listen to Regents Committee Approval of UCLA Hotel: 9-11-12

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Normally, we would post the full audio of the Regents and then provide excerpts if helpful.  However, our audio posting site, archive.org, seems to be having technical problems.  So here (below) is just the audio component of today’s Regents session dealing with the proposed UCLA hotel/conference center.   If archive.org continues to have problems, we will find some other work-around. As was expected, the proposal was rubber stamped by the Building and Grounds Committee after a presentation by Steve Olsen and campus architect Jeffrey Averill.  There was testimony from the Save Westwood Village group during the public comment period raising 1)…

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Listen to Audio of Special Regents Meeting of June 19, 2012

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Although we have posted audio from the July Regents meeting, there was a special meeting earlier called for June 19.  Below is the agenda and audio for that meeting. Tuesday, June 19: Special Meeting of Regents 12:30 pm Committee on Compensation (Regents Only Session) 12:45 pm Committee on Compensation (Open Session – includes public comment session) 1:05 pm Board (open session) The three sessions above were to approve appointment of Amy Dorr – Dean of UCLA’s GSEIS – as UC Provost and EVC-Academic Affairs, $350,000 plus moving and related expenses. 1:30 pm Committee on Investments: Review of investment returns and…

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Audio on the UCLA Hotel from the Regents Meeting of 7-17-12

Byuclafaculty

Because of interest in the UCLA hotel/conference center discussion at the Regents meeting of 7-17-2012, here is a more accessible posting of the audio from that date, just on the hotel.  It is easier to navigate than the earlier posting. Part 1 – Lawyer Statement Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7

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Listen to Audio of the Regents’ Afternoon Session: July 18, 2012

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This audio is a direct recording of the Regents’ afternoon session of July 28, 2012. At the end of the recording, it is announced that the governor is coming and that the Regents – who were going into closed session – would go back into open session when he arrived. However, the live-stream audio was shut off at that point.  When we get the full audio from the Regents, if there are remarks from the governor on it, the audio will be posted.  (Presumably, the governor wanted to talk about the Regents’ earlier endorsement of his tax initiative.)  Otherwise, this…

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Listen to Audio of the Morning Session of the Regents: July 18, 2012

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The Regents sessions on the morning of July 18thwere heavily budget oriented.  This audio is incomplete and starts in the midst of President Yudof’s statement on budget matters and his advocacy of support by the Regents for the governor’s tax initiative on the November ballot.   Public comments by students and others ended in a demonstration of the type that has become standard at Regents meetings.  In essence, demonstrators wanted tuition freezes, even if the governor’s initiative did not pass.  Other items were raised including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Eventually, police cleared the room of demonstrators.  The recording continued during roughly…

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Listen to Regents Meeting July 17, 2012: Hotel Approval

Byuclafaculty

The UCLA hotel/conference center was approved by the Regents Committee on Grounds and Buildings.  That outcome was not unexpected, despite the many concerns that have been raised in the past.  Among other items, and probably most important, was a letter UCLA solicited from the Luskins saying essentially that the proposal was what they wanted and anything else would be a breach.  President Yudof was careful not to say that their original intent was so specific.  He said it is now specific.  It would be unusual, to say the least, for the Regents to walk away from $50 million. The recording…

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Radio Interview with Mark Yudof on UC Funding

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You can listen to a radio interview on “Marketplace” aired earlier today with UC President Mark Yudof.  He spoke about a need for a new financial model for funding UC, although exactly what that model might be was not specified.——-You can hear the interview at the link below.  [The embed link on the Marketplace page seems not to work successfully on this blogsite.]

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Listen to Updated and Complete Audio of May 16 Regents Afternoon Session

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Our earlier post of the May 16 Regents meeting did not include the full afternoon session.  Readers of this blog may recall that the meeting was disrupted in the morning and thus created uncertainty as to when the afternoon session would resume.  The Regents cleared the room and went into closed session elsewhere.  As a result, yours truly – who was recording from the live stream – did not know when the afternoon session would begin. [And a repeat of question made several times on this blog before: If the Regents can live-stream and record their sessions, why can’t they…

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Listen to Audio of Regent Committee on Compliance & Audit: Feb. 28, 2012

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The Regents Committee on Compliance and Audit met on February 28, 2012 ahead of the March meeting.  When the Faculty Association requested a copy of the audio for this meeting, as it now always does, it turned out that the meeting had been taped (analog-recorded) rather than recorded digitally.  Thus, the Regents’ office sent the analog recording out for conversion to digital format.  There were then other delays which account for why only now are we able to post the audio.  It remains unclear why the audio of meetings of the Regents, which are streamed live, cannot simply be posted…

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Listen to (Partial) Audio of Afternoon Regents Session: 5-16-12

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The Regents met in Sacramento on May 16, 2012.  Sacramento was chosen so they could lobby legislators after the meeting.  The morning session was interrupted by a demonstration.  At that time, the Regents went to another location and moved to the closed sessions on the agenda below, presumably while the room was cleared.  The intent was to resume the open part of the meeting after the room was cleared.  The morning session up to the demonstration has been separated posted (the prior post today). Because items were taken out of order as a result of the demonstration, it was unclear…