Regents of the University of California


The Regents of the University of California is the governing board of the University of California, a public university system with over 280,000 students enrolled across ten campuses. The board has 26 voting members.
The regents establish university policy and make decisions that determine student cost of attendance, admissions, employee compensation, land management, and engage in the long-range planning of the UC. The regents also control the investment of the UC’s endowment, and they engage in the brokeraging of contracts between the UC and private companies.
The California Constitution grants broad institutional autonomy, with limited exceptions, to the Regents. According to article IX, section 9, subsection, "he regents of the University of California shall be vested with the legal title and the management and disposition of the property of the university and of the property held for its benefit."
Administrative support is provided to the Regents by the Office of the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the Regents of the University of California, which shares an office building with the UC Office of the President in Oakland.
In May 2017, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Regents had been hosting costly dinner parties using university funds. After extensive public outcry, university leadership released a statement saying the university would no longer fund these dinners.

Composition

The majority of the board is appointed via nomination by the Governor of California and confirmation by the California State Senate to 12-year terms. One student Regent is selected by the Board to represent the students for a one-year term through a hiring process that is conducted by the board. The remaining 7 Regents are ex officio members. They are the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the State Assembly, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, President and Vice President of the Alumni Associations of UC, and President of the University of California.
The Board also has two non-voting faculty representatives and two non-voting Staff Advisors. The incoming student Regent serves as a non-voting Regent-designate from the date of selection until beginning their formal term the following July 1.
The vast majority of the Regents appointed by the Governor historically have consisted of lawyers, politicians and businessmen. Over the past two decades, it has been common that UC Regents appointees have donated relatively large sums of money either directly to the Governor's election campaigns or indirectly to party election groups.

Regentshttps://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/about/members-and-advisors/index.html

Current members

Originally appointed by Gov. Gray Davis:
Originally appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger:
Originally appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown:
Originally appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom:
Student regent:
Ex officio regents:
Regents-designate are non-voting participants who are scheduled to transition to full board membership at later date.
Faculty Representatives to the Regents are non-voting participants who may be assigned as representatives to certain committees.
Non-voting participants who are assigned as representatives to Regents' committees.
Non-voting participants who are assigned as representatives to Regents' committees.
In its early years, UC had thirteen Honorary Regents, with ten appointed in 1868. "Honorary Regents" were full board members, with the word "Honorary" simply denoting their manner of selection. Some were then appointed to another term, following their term as Honorary Regent, by the governor. One was re-elected.