UC Regents

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Keeping Online Ed In-House at UC: Regents Report

Byuclafaculty

Readers of this blog will know that the governor and legislative leaders have been pushing UC to do “more” online ed.  The governor originally earmarked $10 million in the UC budget for that purpose but then line-item-vetoed his own language on the promise that UC would do it anyway.  The Regents next week will consider a report on online higher ed at UC.  What is interesting about the report is what is highlighted and what gets little mention.  At the January Regents meeting, guest speakers from commercial MOOCs were given the floor to tout their wares.  But the report for…

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Regents Will Consider Privacy (in Public)

Byuclafaculty

We noted in an earlier post that a preliminary agenda for the Regents’ meeting next week had been posted.  The more detailed attachments for the meeting have now been posted.  One topic to be taken up is UC policy on “privacy.”  At this point, however, it is all processes to set a policy rather than the policy itself.  According to the agenda item, UCLA Chief Privacy Officer Kent Wada is involved.  (Did you know we had a Chief Privacy Officer?  See http://kentatucla.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/uclacpo-ddmemo1.pdf.) The agenda item can be found at http://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jul13/a3.pdf It’s harder to keep things secret nowadays than it was…

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Listen to the Regents Meeting of March 14, 2013

Byuclafaculty

We continue our archiving of Regents meetings since the Regents themselves indicate they will preserve the recordings for only one year.  This is the March 14 meeting (the final session of the March 2013 meetings).———-This session was mainly taken up with public comments and reviews of various programs including the nuclear labs which UC co-manages.  At the public comments, there were complaints by students of limits on the student health plan.———-Agenda: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:30 am Committee of the Whole – Public Comment (open session) 8:50 am Committee on Compensation (open session) 9:00 am Committee on Finance (open session)…

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

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We continue our efforts at “permanently” archiving the audio of Regents meetings since the Regents’ office apparently will preserve it for only one year. Below is the afternoon session of March 13.  We posted the morning session yesterday.  Since there is no download option on the temporary archive provided by the Regents, we have to record the audio in real time, i.e., an hour of a Regents session takes one hour to record. Regents Afternoon Agenda – March 13, 2013 1:00 pm Committee on Compensation (closed session) 1:15 pm Committee on Compliance and Audit (closed session) 1:40 pm Committee on…

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We’re Waiting for the Complete Post for the July Regents Meeting

Byuclafaculty

The preliminary Regents agenda for the July 16-18 meeting has been posted.  As yet, the detailed attachments to the agenda are not available.  However, there will be approval of contribution increases to the pension for next year (2014-15) and an interim replacement for the university’s Chief Investment Officer who suddenly resigned without explanation.  In a closed session, the Regents will discuss the criminal case the LA district attorney is pursuing against UCLA Prof. Patrick Harran.  See http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2013/04/justice.htmlfor our most recent post on that case.  The Christian Head case charging discrimination (and involving a viral YouTube video) at UCLA will also…

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

Byuclafaculty

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

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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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)

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

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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…