A couple items of note on the agenda (a lot of the interesting ones are in closed session): There will be an update in closed session today on “pending or threatened litigation” coming out of the UC Davis and UC Berkeley student protests… Also in closed session, the Regents look at the proposed dismissal (without emeritus status) of a UC Riverside professor. Sarkis Joseph Khoury, 65, an international finance professor… On Thursday, the Regents will discuss Gov. Jerry Brown’s 2012 proposed budget and its impact on the public university system. UC was hit by $750 million in state funding cuts last year and faces the possibility of another $200 million in cuts again in 2012 if an initiative to raise taxes that the governor is trying to get on the November ballot is not approved by voters.

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by Tami Abdollah, KPCC.

Posted: January 18th, 2012, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.