UC Regents Meeting, Day Three
The University of California Regents enter the third day of their March meeting this morning, and though the meet hasn’t been met by the kind of huge mass protests that accompanied last November’s fee hikes, it has produced quite a bit of news — and some impressive new student mobilization.
On Tuesday, the Regents heard proposals for changes to university policy that would cut costs and increase revenue, many of which would likely provoke intense student opposition if implemented. The ideas put forward ranged from new tuition hikes and a doubling of out-of-state enrollment to the creation of a three-year undergraduate degree path. Students and workers weighed in on the changes in statements to the board, and “erupted in chants and yelling” at the end of the public comment period.
The Regents will receive formal recommendations on these issues at their July meeting.
Yesterday the Regents discussed — and heard student opinions on — the system’s recent wave of bias crimes and the underlying questions of campus climate and demographics. UC President Mark Yudof endorsed admissions reform in the course of that discussion, calling for a so-called “holistic” admissions approach, in which an applicant’s life experiences are taken into account, to be mandated on every campus. UC San Diego, which has a student body which is just 1.6% black, and which has seen a series of racist incidents in recent
On Tuesday, the Regents heard proposals for changes to university policy that would cut costs and increase revenue, many of which would likely provoke intense student opposition if implemented. The ideas put forward ranged from new tuition hikes and a doubling of out-of-state enrollment to the creation of a three-year undergraduate degree path. Students and workers weighed in on the changes in statements to the board, and “erupted in chants and yelling” at the end of the public comment period.
The Regents will receive formal recommendations on these issues at their July meeting.
Yesterday the Regents discussed — and heard student opinions on — the system’s recent wave of bias crimes and the underlying questions of campus climate and demographics. UC President Mark Yudof endorsed admissions reform in the course of that discussion, calling for a so-called “holistic” admissions approach, in which an applicant’s life experiences are taken into account, to be mandated on every campus. UC San Diego, which has a student body which is just 1.6% black, and which has seen a series of racist incidents in recent
