Board of Regents

Despite several major campus leadership position not yet permanently filled, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks announced in a campuswide email Monday that the administration will not begin filling in these positions — those decisions will be left up to his successor.

UC President Janet Napolitano selected a UC Irvine alumnus as the next staff adviser-designate to the UC Board of Regents.

The UC Board of Regents will convene Wednesday and Thursday to vote on the addition of a student adviser position to the board and a professional degree supplemental tuition increase.

On Thursday, the UC Board of Regents approved the participation of the Berkeley campus in creating a joint research institute in Shenzhen, China.

The University of California Student Association held its monthly Board of Directors meeting on Friday, followed by the three-day UCSA Student Lobbying Conference from Saturday through Monday.

In the first day of a three-day meeting, the Committee on Compliance and Audit approved an external audit’s scope and fees and heard from officials presenting on regulatory compliance in the university's international affairs.

The university and state are at a standoff after Gov. Jerry Brown released his 2015-16 preliminary state budget Friday, which incorporates a $119.5 million increase in funding for the university — contingent on the university keeping tuition levels flat, despite its recent decision to raise tuition.

At its meeting this week, the UC Board of Regents is set to establish a new long term funding model centered around the university’s tuition increase plan released earlier this month.

The University of California released a plan Thursday to increase tuition over the next five years, a policy that comes in the wake of state disinvestment and one that clashes with Gov. Jerry Brown’s vision of higher education funding.