Live updates from the UC Board of Regents meeting in Sacramento
The UC Board of Regents are meeting today (5/16/12) in Sacramento where yet another system-wide fee hike will be discussed as well as Gov. Jerry Brown's May Revise budget and its impact on higher education in California.
#UCregents meeting coming to an end, after an hour-long debate over budget solutions
Props to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom for having the guts to vote no on the compensation package for the new UCSD chancellor. #ucregents
#ucregents about to give 4.8 percent pay hike to #Ucsd chancellor. 411k salary plus hundreds of thousands more in benefits. #uc #suffering
@GavinNewsom at #UCRegents meeting:We've gotta start putting our thinking caps on and figure out what we're going to do if the worst happens- Interesting discussion by #ucregents on #UC priorities. Let's hope that is students not administrators.
"If we don't have substantive conversations on alternatives... We'll always end up at tuition increases." @GavinNewsom #ucregents meeting- Lt. Gov @GavinNewsom chimes in on budge shortfalls: If we're being honest, we're not talking 6% fee increase... we're talking 15% or more
- #ucregents budget discussion: Cal Grant reductions in @JerryBrownGov may revise about $291 million
Dean Edley proposing a new "mechanism for internal discipline against students" instead of criminal courts. #UCRegents bit.ly/JeIqCs- #UCRegents are questioning Dean Edley re: protest report which recommends more mediation w/ demonstrators bit.ly/JeIqCs
About 25 AFSCME and UAW members assembled w/ students outside #ucregents meeting for press conference, demand more accountability from #UC- UAW press conference beginning shortly outside convention center in Sacramento #ucregents
Capitol Alert: VIDEO: Student protest disrupts UC regents meeting in Sacramento - sacbee.comSacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the ...- Protesters have left. UC spokesperson Lynn Tierney says #ucregents now meeting in closed session, will return to protest report after lunch
Protesters chanting, "They take away our education we go into occupation." And now they are reconvening #ucregents http://pic.twitter.com/88kCwSCT- Students began protesting at the board meeting and chanting to the song "Chain Gang," which led to the Regents moving to a closed session meeting for about an hour. The sounds of the protest were recorded and can be heard below.
- Peter King, UC spokesperson: #ucregents will move to closed session for about an hour and 10 min
This is the song being sung at the #UCRegents meeting, except with students in place of man: bit.ly/JTqX13- Regents moving to closed session temporarily in light of continued singing/chanting of protesters in meeting room #ucregents
Students interrupting #ucregents meeting singing "that is the sound of the students working on the chain gang" http://pic.twitter.com/tO6gtZdU- Report on protest prepared by #UCBerkeley Law school Dean Edley and VP and General Counsel Charles Robinson now being discussed #ucregents
UC Haiti Initiative picked by @Mark_Yudof to win President's Award for Outstanding Student Leadership. owl.li/aW5cY @UCHAITIorg
