"University of California Board of Regents’ investment committee approved on Tuesday a significant reduction to its fixed-income exposure to 20% from 65% in its $4.7 billion Total Return Investment Pool."

covered here: University of California regents make sweeping asset allocation changes to 1 portfolio

University of California Board of Regents’ investment committee approved on Tuesday a significant reduction to its fixed-income exposure to 20% from 65% in its $4.7 billion Total Return Investment Pool.

Other changes include a new 20% allocation to cross-asset-class strategies, a new 10% allocation to opportunistic equity, a new 10% allocation to global REITs, a new 10% allocation to absolute-return strategies and a 7.5% new allocation to emerging markets equity. see the short article for more info.

There was a UCLA hosted link to a live stream of the meeting, but it does not play anything post meeting. - and no video archive is posted anywhere either...another round of failure on the archiving and availability of UC Regents meetings via -pick any form video, audio, etc and insert here-.

mini non herbicide roundup

Update: By Robert Meister- Can Venture Capital Deliver on the Promise of the Public University?
“The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education.”
__
stuff:
Robert Reich: Global Capital and the Nation State
Right-wing nationalist parties are gaining ground elsewhere in Europe as well. In the U.S., not only are Republicans sounding more nationalistic of late (anti-immigrant, anti-trade), but they continue to push "states rights" — as states increasingly battle against one another to give global companies ever larger tax breaks and subsidies.

Nothing could strengthen the hand of global capital more than such breakups.
__
Jerry Brown wants college students to graduate faster. But how? and his commencement speech at Cal
__
UC I's New University on UC Regents meeting
__
how does this play out at UC? whose daddy/mommy has bain connections? or career networking moves etc.-- what sort of booster and DINO behavior shows up as a result?: BuzzFeed on Bain and tactics oh, the Op Ex...
__
Is Google reading your bMail?

Kinda State Employees, And Kinda Not...

Workers Start Two Day Strike - SF Chron
Two Day Strike To Hit California Hospitals - WSJ

Court limits number who can strike at UC medical centers- LA Times
___
Original post:
hhhmmmm. the moments when PERB decides to step in- and not step in- to UC personnel matters, here is the latest: State Labor Board Seeks Injunction Against Two UC Unions
__
Changing Universities: Graduation Rates and the Bottleneck Myth
__
Gas Station Without Pumps: On labs moving from UC to private colleges
and a response on:
Tenure-track’s untouchables

May 21 UC Regents Committee on Investments Meeting

there is another UC Regents meeting on May 21 about investments see the full two page agenda.
__
UC Regent Kieffer also makes interesting comments about transfer students at the 1:15 mark here
contrast that with Zettel's comments about student athletes at the 2:53 mark here

Kieffer also has an important exchange with Birgeneau and Cal Admins at the 2:58:20 -mark about donations and academic/ instruction-- Birgeneau gives a flip endowed chairs response, and Regent M adds in something about Stanford. Thankful UC Regent Kieffer asked that question.
__
if you can do voice recognition easily here is audio of last week's UC Regents meeting:
The Complete Regents Meeting for Your Listening Enjoyment AND a Note About the Governor's Legitimate Question and the Absurd UC Response
- important point on what to do about micromanaging if UC doesn't like it coming from Sacramento...
and
When Adjunct Faculty Are The Tenure-Track's Untouchables

In Sympathy?

LAT: Court will decide how many UC workers can strike
A judge is expected to rule on a request for a temporary restraining order limiting the number of workers who may take part in the walkout. According to UC officials, the focus is on workers considered essential for patient care.

The union representing nearly 13,000 patient healthcare workers has notified UC that it plans to strike from Tuesday at 4 a.m. to Thursday at 4 a.m. Several thousand others could participate in a “sympathy strike” Tuesday.


Stobo: “If union members are as concerned with patient safety as they claim, why strike?” he said."
__
UC SHIP at Cal: "Premiums for Berkeley SHIP 2013-14: Undergraduates $1007 per semester, Graduate students $1386 per semester" and more detail.

(Some) UC Students Grade CA Legislature

see: the coverage from Sac Bee says there were no A grades given
but we found three members who received A+ grades:
Tony Mendoza 56th District
Michael Rubio 16th District
Sandre Swanson 16th District

did the grades get changed or?... take a look for yourself.

"UC campuses have seen a greater change than others, Dorr said. For example, the four-year graduation rate at two neighboring campuses in Southern California is significantly different: The rate at UC Irvine has risen to nearly 70 percent, while the rate at UC Riverside remains barely above 40 percent."

isn't UCR where the CSU pulled their new head of their system from?
Brown asks UC officials to review graduation rates
it includes: The Democratic governor, acting in his official capacity as president of the Board of Regents, grilled UC Provost Aimee Dorr about the university system's graduation rates during a board meeting in Sacramento.
and
"You put all these charts and it looks like things are getting better, but if we don't know why they're getting better, then the chart isn't very useful," Brown said.
UC President Mark Yudof said any effort to improve those rates would come with the challenge of waiting four to six years to see whether students actually graduate sooner.
"We'll take a shot at it," Yudof said. "... But it's proven pretty elusive in higher education."