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USC covers UC Regents Protest at UCR

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USC news service seems to have the most complete story on yesterday’s protest at the Regents meeting See: http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/01/students-shut-down-uc-regents-finance-meeting The LA Times also has a story http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-regents-rally-20120120,0,4723240.story Meanwhile, at UC-Berkeley: UC Berkeley faculty stand between protesters, police crackdown:http://www.mercurynews.com/occupy/ci_19779401 Update: The Riverside Press-Enterprise carried a detailed report on the Regents meeting: http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/riverside/riverside-headlines-index/20120119-riverside-protesters-and-arrests-at-uc-regents-meeting.ece

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Let me go, says UC-San Francisco

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From today’s San Francisco Chronicle: Unlike the other nine campuses of the University of California, UCSF enrolls no undergraduates, offers no history classes and gets so much money from government grants that it barely depends on the tuition its students pay to attend the medical school on a windy San Francisco hill. …At Thursday’s meeting at UC Riverside, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the regents, delicately, that she wants out. Under her proposal, UCSF’s medical school, hospital, clinics and research facilities would remain a public university connected to UC, the chancellor assured the regents. But the tendrils connecting the two…

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UC History: Connerly

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Former UC Regent Ward Connerly who led the move to abolish affirmative action at UC in 1995 is back in the news, albeit not in a positive way.  http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/01/18/allegations-against-prominent-foe-affirmative-action  (There is a link within that link to a NY Times article with more detail.)  A related news item appeared in the Sacramento Bee this morning: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/18/4195636/connerly-financial-misdeeds-alleged.html The news clip below describes the Regents’ action but focuses on then-Governor Pete Wilson.  (Connerly is briefly shown.)  The Regents’ resolution was made redundant by the later Prop 209 and the resolution was subsequently repealed.  However, since UC is covered by Prop 209, the…

Upcoming Regents Meeting Jan. 18-19

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The Regents will be meeting in Riverside on January 18-19.  Their agenda is posted and looks rather tame.  No tuition discussion.  Some discussion of the state budget.  Seismic upgrades.  Proposal to move some MOP loan loss reserves – said to be in excess of needs – to the general budget. Wednesday, January 18 8:30 am Committee of the Whole (public comment) 9:30 am* Committee on Educational Policy (open session) 10:00 am* Committee on Finance (open session) 10:45 am* Committee on Health Services (open session) 11:15am* Committee on Oversight of the DOE Laboratories (open session) 11:30 am* Committee on Governance (open…

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Yours Truly and Others Comment on Student-Regents Communications

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The Regents are a less-staid group than they were in the 1950s when the photo on the left was taken.  (They are discussing the loyalty oath controversy of that era in the picture.) Thanks to the UC-Davis pepper spray incident, Regent Chair Lansing has been seeking alternative avenues of communication with students.In any event, the Daily Bruin asked yours truly and two others to write little op eds on such communications. You can read about it at http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2012/01/_on_the_record_

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Crane Dropped the Ball and Now Sees Himself as Galileo

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Our favorite ex-Regent, David Crane, is now comparing himself to Galileo for his unhelpful stand on the Regents regarding pensions. Readers of this blog will know that Crane was appointed in the fleeting minutes of former Governor Schwarzenegger’s term to the Regents. But he was never confirmed by the state senate and his term thus ended in late 2011. While on the Board, Crane – who evidently wanted to make government pensions generally his issue – was not helpful in differentiating the steps the Regents had taken in modifying UCRP from other state pensions such as CalPERS.  UC is in…

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Goodbye Crane – And Thanks for Your Kind Remarks

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Pension reform crusader David Crane steps down today as a member of the University of California Board of Regents.  That’s because the state Senate didn’t confirm his appointment to the post within the year prescribed by law. …Crane, a Democrat, was Schwarzenegger’s point man on public pensions. He contended that the state’s three largest funds, including UC’s, were committing “generational theft“ by understating their liabilities and siphoning money from schools and social programs…Full article: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/27/4146490/the-buzz-pension-reform-crusader.html

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Audio of Conclusion of the Regents Meeting of Nov. 28, 2011

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We earlier posted the bulk of the Regents meeting of Nov. 28 up to the point where demonstrations temporarily shut down the proceedings. The Nov. 28 meeting was the result of a postponement of the meeting originally scheduled for two weeks earlier. That meeting was cancelled due to concern over possible violent demonstrations. We now have the audio for the brief portion of the meeting that resumed (about 17 minutes). Various capital projects were approved. There was a further disturbance at one point. Minutes of committees were approved. A change in compensation reporting practices was approved. Various executive compensation adjustments…

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Audio of the Nov. 7 Regents Committee on Compliance & Audit

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The UC Regents Committee on Compliance and Audit met on November 7, 2011 in advance of the full Regents meeting that was originally scheduled for the following week. The full Regents meeting was postponed due to concern about possible violent demonstrations. This blog has been making available audios of the Regents meetings. A link to the audio can be found at the bottom of this blog entry. During the public comment section of the Committee meeting, the first speaker made a satirical speech for privatizing UC on behalf of the 1%, as opposed to the 99%, as per the Occupy…

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Listen to Audio from Regents Meeting of Nov. 28, 2011 Until Cut Off

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Below you can listen to the audio of the rescheduled Regents meeting of earlier today. The meeting was a teleconference at various campus sites. It consisted mainly of the public comment session. See earlier postings on this blog for further information. After the public comments session, the Regents attempted to discuss the UC budget. At that point, the audio went on and off, apparently in response to demonstrations. There was a statement that the room at UC-San Francisco had been cleared. The audio finally cut off entirely about 11:45 AM. Update: A copy of the Regents audio that covers the…