Riverside finance expert Maria Anguiano named to UC Board of Regents

Riverside resident Maria Anguiano, a former UC Riverside vice chancellor and accountant, was appointed to the University of California Board of Regents, which oversees the UC system. Anguiano, 38, was one of four board picks announced Friday, June 2, by Gov. Jerry Brown’s office. The state Senate must confirm the appointments, which are unpaid… Varner said Anguiano not only knows how the UC Office of the President works, from the five years she spent working there, but she knows UC Riverside from the inside as well… As chief finance officer at Minerva Project, she has seen how technology can help lower a college’s costs and other ideas that may also work for the UC system, she said. “A lot of what being a regent is about is accountability and asking good questions of the decisions that are being made,” Anguiano said.

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by Alicia Robinson, The Press-Enterprise.

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