University of California: regents: student members.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not provide details about the selection process or specific rights and responsibilities of student regents, leaving these aspects open to interpretation.

University of California: Student Members on Board

This legislation requires the University of California's board to appoint two students from each campus for every regular academic term and mandates that these student members serve as nonvoting regents-designate in their final year before becoming full voting members.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the Regents of the University of California to appoint two students enrolled at a university campus as board members during each regular academic term.
• Specifies that one appointed student must be an undergraduate and another must be a graduate or professional student.
• Mandates that these student members serve as nonvoting regents-designate for one year before becoming full voting members of the board.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Regents of the University of California
• Students enrolled at any campus within the University of California system

Terms To Know

Regents-designate

A student who is appointed to serve as a nonvoting member of the board for one year before becoming a full voting regent.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how student regents will be selected.
• It is unclear what specific rights and responsibilities these new student members will have on the board.

Official Summary Text

ACA 18, as introduced, Caloza.
University of California: regents: student members.
The California Constitution provides that the University of California constitutes a public trust, and requires the university to be administered by the Regents of the University of California, a corporation in the form of a board, with full powers of organization and government, subject to legislative control only for specified purposes. The California Constitution requires the board to consist of 7 ex officio members and 18 appointive members appointed by the Governor and approved by the Senate. The California Constitution authorizes the members of the board to appoint either a member of the faculty at a campus of the university or of another institution of higher education, or a person enrolled as a student at a campus of the university, or both, as members of the board serving for no less than one year with all rights of participation.
This
measure would require, instead of authorize, the members of the board to appoint to the board 2 students enrolled at a campus of the university for each regular academic term during their service as members of the board, as provided. The measure would also require each student board member to serve as a nonvoting student regent-designate in the year preceding the start of their term as a member of the board, and would require one nonvoting student regent-designate to be enrolled as an undergraduate student and one nonvoting student regent-designate to be enrolled as a graduate or professional student when appointed to the nonvoting student regent-designate position, as specified.

Current Bill Text

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