Regents

May 16, 2013

Union Workers Picket, Sit-in, Announce Strike

By Patrick Kulp

University of California Police arrested 13 people at the UC Board of Regents meeting yesterday morning during a demonstration in support of a UC patient care and service workers union in their ongoing labor contract dis...

May 16, 2013

Regents Meeting Focuses on Ending ‘Super Senior’ Trend

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents discussed graduation rates, student-faculty ratios and other university-wide issues at yesterday’s board meeting, while UC workers of the labor union AFSCME 3299 protested outside the meeting at...

April 25, 2013

Gruesome Demonstration Protests UC Regents’ “Silencing” of Students

By Marissa Wenzke

After the UC Board of Regents failed to respond to A.S. President Sophia Armen’s letter requesting a UC Regents meeting at UCSB, the student executive and a small group of other concerned students occupied an area in t...

April 24, 2013

Armen Requests UC Regents Meeting On Campus

By Carissa Quiambao

Associated Students President Sophia Armen received no response from a letter to the UC Board of Regents requesting that their next meeting be held at UCSB and for a reply to be sent back to her by 5 p.m. yesterday. The ...

March 5, 2013

Q&A With Armen: A.S. President Talks About Rally on State Budgets, Prop. 30, Financial Aid

By Rilla Peng

Yesterday roughly 5,000 students from the University of California, California State University and California Community College systems joined forces to protest at the State Capitol in Sacramento, addressing ongoing bud...

March 4, 2013

Regents Form Panel To Begin Search for Successor to President Yudof

By Staff Report

The University of California Board of Regents has created a special committee to begin the search and nomination process for selecting a new president of the UC system, who will succeed current UC President Mark Yudof. Y...

January 17, 2013

UC Board of Regents Debate Financial Strengths, Weaknesses Encompassing Online Education

By Patrick Kulp, Marissa Wenzke

During yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay, University officials and legislators met to discuss issues of faculty diver- sity and online education, with most Regents supporting efforts to increa...

January 16, 2013

Regents Kick Off Meeting With Debates on Health Care, Audits, Eco-Friendly Buildings

By Carissa Quiambao

Yesterday’s UC Board of Regents meeting at UCSF Mission Bay touched on potential improvements and changes to the university, including the supposed need for increased environmental sustainability at campuses, enhanced ...

November 19, 2012

UC Student Regent Jonathan Stein Discusses University Funding, Proposition 30 with UCSB

By Jennifer Chang

Last Friday, UCSB Associated Students hosted a “meet and greet” event with Student Regent Jonathan Stein in the Loma Pelona Center to give students the opportunity to ask ques- tions and discuss the university’s bu...

November 14, 2012

UC Regents Approve Budget for 2013-2014

By Patrick Kulp, Katherine Friedman

During the second day of their three-day meeting at UC San Francisco Mission Bay, the UC Board of Regents deliberated on revenue-generating measures such as increasing nonresident undergraduate enrollment and approved th...

November 14, 2012

UC Regents Discuss Budget Issues During This Week’s Meeting

By Staff Report

The UC Board of Regents discussed UCSB’s Long Range Development Plan and a proposal to build the Faculty Office Building at the San Francisco Mission Bay campus yesterday during the first day of the board’s three-day...

July 12, 2012

Regents Meet to Deliberate Tax Initiative

By Marissa Wenzke

The UC Board of Regents will meet next week at UC San Francisco Mission Bay to discuss the possibility of either a 20.3 percent mid-year tuition hike or a tuition freeze, depending on whether Gov. Jerry Brown’s tax ini...

April 4, 2012

Students Protest Regents at UCSF

By Erika Martin

Student protesters gathered at UC San Francisco last week to celebrate Spring Break with the UC Board of Regents during its three-day meeting, stalling the assembly’s procedures for roughly 40 minutes. The demonstrator...

January 20, 2012

Board Boots Crowd from UC Riverside Regents Rendezvous

By Erika Martin

The UC Board of Regents met yesterday at UC Riverside for their second day of meetings intended to furnish a comprehensive method to cope with the university system’s chronic budget crisis. Although the Regents did not...

January 19, 2012

Regents Deliberate Improving Current Educational Policy During Opening Day

By Staff Report

The UC Board of Regents convened at UC Riverside yesterday for its two-day meeting tackling strategies to compensate for the system’s budget shortfalls. Chair of the Board Sherry Lansing started the assembly with an an...

January 9, 2012

Regents Close Meeting After Students Protest

By Patrick Kulp, Erika Martin

Although most University proceedings were suspended over the course of Winter Break, the UC Board of Regents continued their deliberation concerning the future of the University system in the current fiscal climate in a ...