‘I am sorry that we did it this way,’ UC’s Napolitano tells lawmakers after audit
Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, who has clashed with the university in the past, suggested that the audit “merits us looking at the UC autonomy” again. Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, criticized the Board of Regents for failing in its oversight of the UC Office of the President and called it “out of touch, in some ways, with the larger population of individuals that it has been selected to serve.” “To say that this is a black eye on UC is an understatement,” Assemblyman Jose Medina, D-Riverside, said. “I think there’s a long way to go, a long way to go to re-establish the trust that was there before, especially with the Legislature.” Before the hearing, Assembly Republicans held a news conference urging the Legislature to subpoena all records related to the UC Office of the President’s reserve funds and its interference with the campus surveys to determine if any criminal activity had taken place.
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by Alexei Koseff, The Sacramento Bee.