The University of California Board of Regents will meet today through Thursday at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus for its bimonthly board meeting – the first to be presided over by new UC President Janet Napolitano.
The board is slated to approve the UC’s 2013-14 and 2014-15 budgets for state capital improvements, which include funding for projects such as seismic correction and fire lab safety at the UCLA Center for Health Sciences.
The request for capital improvements, spread across the two years, totals $344,341.
In order to receive a 5 percent base increase in state funding outlined in the state budget, the UC must not raise tuition or fees in 2014-15 and the two following years.
However, the UC’s budget proposal this week indicates that the UC will require an additional $120.9 million in state funding – in addition to the 5 percent base increase already promised – to avoid the necessity of increased tuition.
The 2014-15 budget plan proposes $383.1 million in expenditure increases, relying heavily on state funds.
Regents this week are also set to decide on or discuss:
- An annual report on ethics and compliance procedures at the University, including details about the systemwide Whistleblower Hotline.
- Approval of the design to move the UC-owned Stuart House in Santa Monica, which provides services for child victims of sexual abuse through the Rape Treatment Center.
- A discussion of how to better attract doctoral students to the UC, and how these students fit into the California Master Plan for Higher Education.
- An annual report on philanthropic support to the University.
- An update on Department of Energy laboratories affiliated with the UC, including the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- Modifications to the UC loan program policies and procedures.
- Financial evaluation of the UC Retirement Plan and the 1991 UC-Public Employees’ Retirement System Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Program.
- Participation in a joint venture to establish and operate a rehabilitation hospital at UCLA, which will be decided on in a regents-only session.
Compiled by Katherine Hafner, Bruin senior staff.