50-608: Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government is a 2013 book by then- California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom . It describes how ordinary citizens can use new digital tools to dissolve political gridlock and transform American democracy. This article about a book on politics of the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This World Wide Web –related article
100-528: A $ 253,750 piece of property for Carter's personal use, with the university paying $ 178,750 and Carter paying the remaining $ 75,000. Smith, who was Governor Reagan's personal lawyer and a Reagan appointee to the board, was a lawyer at the law firm representing the Irvine Company , a private real estate company. Carter was a lifetime board member of the Irvine Foundation , which has a controlling interest in
150-551: A directly elected lieutenant governor or whose lieutenant governor office is vacant: Regents of the University of California The Regents of the University of California (also referred to as the Board of Regents to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same name) is the governing board of the University of California (UC), a state university system in
200-518: A meeting of the regents scheduled for May 28, but no record was made of this meeting. On June 9, 1868, the first two groups of regents gathered together in San Francisco for the first recorded meeting of the Board of Regents, where the appointed regents drew lots to determine the lengths of their initial terms, and then the board proceeded to elect the eight honorary regents. The "honorary" regents enjoyed
250-420: A way to replace middle class engineering jobs with cheap graduate student labor. Regent Richard C. Blum , financier and husband to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, served on the board of regents' Investment Committee. Allegations of conflicts of interest have arisen because, during Blum's tenure, UC has invested hundreds of millions of dollars where he had concurrent business interests. According to an investigation by
300-413: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lieutenant Governor of California The lieutenant governor of California is the second highest executive officer of the government of the U.S. state of California . The lieutenant governor is elected to serve a four-year term and can serve a maximum of two terms . In addition to largely ministerial roles, serving as acting governor in
350-434: Is dead, if not, go back to sleep." Despite its prestige, it has not historically been a strong springboard to higher political office; Gray Davis and current Governor Gavin Newsom are the only Democrats in state history and the only state politicians in the last eight decades to be elected governor after holding the post. Furthermore, the lieutenant governor's office budget has suffered considerable cutbacks in recent times;
400-525: Is still the Regents of the University of California. Today, it is unusual for universities (or any other kind of corporation) to incorporate in the names of their boards, but it used to be a common practice among American universities. For example, Harvard University is still legally incorporated as the President and Fellows of Harvard College . Incorporating the university under the exact same name as its board
450-416: Is unlikely. In 2003, although Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante and Governor Gray Davis were both Democrats, they reportedly had an icy relationship and had not spoken in months before the 2003 California recall election approached. Bustamante's decision to run in the recall election was controversial, as many supporters of Governor Davis had urged prominent Democrats not to run, in an attempt to undermine
500-490: Is very troubling – especially when the research is conducted at, and the technologies are developed in collaboration with, public institutions." Following the signing of the contract by the UC Regents, professors complained that BP Oil bypassed normal university hiring and tenure protocol and hired professors directly, without consulting any academic department. Opponents have also argued this and other privatization contracts are
550-548: The California Courts of Appeal when Brown was out of the state. Brown withdrew Arabian's appointment upon his return, appointing Bernard S. Jefferson in his place. In the 1979 case In re Governorship , the California Supreme Court upheld the lieutenant governor's right to perform the duties and assume all of the prerogatives of governor while the governor is out of the state, but that the governor generally has
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#1732854994643600-582: The Irvine Company . In 2007, the Board of Regents signed the EBI contract , a $ 50 million university privatization contract funded by the BP oil company. The contract gave financial control over all clean energy research at UC Berkeley to BP , with $ 15 million directed towards proprietary research allowing the oil company able to keep around a third of the patents produced by the academic employees while also financially controlling all other clean energy research upon
650-542: The Sacramento News & Review , conflict-of-interest dealings by the UC Board of Regents accelerated in the years prior to the 2008 recession. Beginning in 2003, "[M]embers of the board of regents benefited from the placement of hundreds of millions of university dollars into investments, private deals and publicly held enterprises with significant ties to their own personal business activities, while simultaneously increasing
700-418: The U.S. state of California . The Board of Regents has 26 voting members, the majority of whom are appointed by the governor of California to serve 12-year terms. The regents establish university policy; make decisions that determine student cost of attendance, admissions, employee compensation, and land management; and perform long-range planning for all UC campuses and locations. The regents also control
750-607: 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 (usually between July and October) until beginning their formal term
800-674: The California Community College System , and the Calbright College Board of Trustees . Together with the state controller and director of finance , the lieutenant governor is a member of the California State Lands Commission . The State Lands Commission is an independent state agency which manages 450,000 acres of school trust lands and an additional 4,000,000 acres of public trust lands consisting of California's foreshore, nearshore, and
850-466: The California state auditor found that regent Edwin W. Pauley, who owned Pauley Petroleum, personally profited when university officials steered $ 10.7 million dollars into one of his company's business deals. In 1970, the California state auditor investigated regent William French Smith and regent Edward Carter for conflict of interest dealings. The actions investigated included the joint purchase of
900-544: The Commission for Economic Development, which is responsible for fostering economic growth in California by developing and implementing strategies for attracting new business to the state, increasing state exports, creating new jobs, and stimulating industries statewide. The commission is composed of appointees from the legislature and the governor and currently does not have a quorum needed to meet. Many California projects created through gubernatorial executive orders, or through
950-426: 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. In its early years, UC had thirteen Honorary Regents, with eight elected in 1868. "Honorary Regents" were full board members, with the word "Honorary" simply denoting their manner of selection (that is, they were elected to serve on
1000-661: 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 . The Board of Regents has been the subject of various corruption scandals throughout the university's long history. The board's first scandal surfaced in 1874. By June 1872, regent Samuel Merritt had become
1050-508: The Senate when requested by the president pro tempore or in order to cast a tie-breaking vote. Moreover, there is a gentlemen's agreement for the lieutenant governor not to perform more than perfunctory duties while the governor is away from the state. This agreement was violated when Mike Curb was in office, as he signed several executive orders at odds with the administration of Jerry Brown and appointed Armand Arabian as presiding justice on
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#17328549946431100-546: The absence of the governor of California and as President of the California State Senate , the lieutenant governor either sits on (or appoints representatives to) many of California's regulatory commissions and executive agencies. California is one of seventeen states where the governor and lieutenant governor do not run as running mates on the same ticket : in California the governor and lieutenant governor are elected separately, although both are up for election in
1150-435: The amount of detail that flowed upwards to the regents. The majority of the board (18 Regents) 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
1200-585: The beds of natural navigable rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, inlets, and straits. The position of commission chair alternates annually between the lieutenant governor and the state controller; in those years when the lieutenant governor is commission chair, the lieutenant governor is also a voting member of the Ocean Protection Council and a non-voting member of the California Coastal Commission . The lieutenant governor chairs
1250-688: The board in June 1874 and in October refunded $ 867 of his lumber company's profits to the university. In 1965, free-speech movement activist Marvin Garson responded to a call by the California Federation of Teachers to "investigate the composition and operation of the Board of Regents." He produced a 19-page report documenting prior cases of corruption, concluding that, "taken as a group, the Regents are representatives of only one thing—corporate wealth." In 1970,
1300-462: The board of regents Investment committee, while also reducing the funds within the UC endowment that might have otherwise been used to cover costs related to the operations of the university. In May 2017, The San Francisco Chronicle reported that the Regents had been hosting costly dinner parties using university funds. Only after extensive public outcry, university leadership released a statement saying
1350-541: The board) met an additional 11 times, and the university budget was excruciatingly detailed. The result was that the board collectively supervised every aspect of university affairs—no matter how trivial or minor. One sign of the regents' unusually extreme level of micromanagement during this period was that it was seen as a major milestone when acting UC President Martin Kellogg gained the power in 1891 to independently hire janitors (as long as he reported on what he had done at
1400-547: The building came from Merritt's own lumber company." The San Francisco Evening Post broke the story on January 6, 1874, and two days later, the California State Assembly 's public building committee launched an investigation which held hearings through March 3 of that year. The committee concluded that Merritt had profited financially from providing an inferior building to the university at an exorbitant cost: $ 24,000 over its reasonable value. Merritt resigned from
1450-542: The campus. The contract likewise allowed BP oil to construct a building on the UC Berkeley campus with entire floors that only BP employees are allowed to enter. Before the signing of the contract, a number of environmental organizations, including Greenpeace penned a letter to the regents, which was read during the regents meeting on November 2, 2007, which stated "The prospect of giant carbon polluters directing research related to and gaining control of key energy technologies
1500-411: The chair of the board's building committee and initiated planning for the original College of Letters building (later known as North Hall). Although the board also passed a resolution that same month prohibiting self-dealing with respect to construction of campus buildings, the winning bid was ultimately submitted by Merritt's preferred contractor, Power and Ough, "and much of the lumber and cement for
1550-547: The cost of university attendance." Additionally, the investigation found that some members of the regents’ investment committee, individuals who are also "Wall Street heavy hitters," modified long-standing UC investment policies, specifically, steering away from investing in more traditional instruments (such as blue-chip stocks and bonds) toward largely unregulated and risky "alternative" investments, such as private equity and private real-estate deals. These changes in UC investment policy brought personal gain to individual members of
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1600-547: The current members of that board could not be held liable in their individual capacities for the torts of the corporation. The current Board of Regents is a "policy board," as a result of reforms unanimously adopted from 1957 to 1960 at the instigation of UC President Clark Kerr . Before Kerr's reforms, the regents operated as an "administrative board" (in Kerr's words) for almost a century. The board met 12 times per year and its finance committee (with full authority to act on behalf of
1650-406: 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. Administrative support is provided to
1700-496: The following sentence: "The general government and superintendence of the University shall vest in a Board of Regents, to be denominated the 'Regents of the University of California,' who shall become incorporated under the general laws of the State of California by that corporate name and style." The Organic Act described three groups of regents: six ex officio regents , eight appointed regents, and eight "honorary" regents. To expedite
1750-570: The formation of the university, the Organic Act authorized the governor to unilaterally select the eight appointed regents after the end of the current legislative session and allowed them to assume office immediately without the consent of the state senate . Governor Henry Huntly Haight announced his selections in May 1868. On May 23, a notice was published in the San Francisco Examiner of
1800-718: The initiative process, include a role for the lieutenant governor. For example, the lieutenant governor serves on the Agriculture-Water Transition Task Force (created by Governor Gray Davis ), and five of the twenty-nine members of the oversight committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine are appointed by the lieutenant governor. Some academics and scholars such as Roger E. Noll and Bruce Cain in Constitutional Reform in California have criticized constitutional offices like
1850-491: The investment of UC's endowment, and they supervise the making of contracts between UC and private companies. The structure and composition of the Board of Regents is laid out in the California Constitution , which establishes that the University of California is a "public trust" and that the regents are a "corporation" that has been granted the power to manage the trust on the public's behalf. The constitution grants
1900-456: The legitimacy of the event. Despite being the second highest-ranking office in California, the lieutenant governor has no real responsibility or power to represent the governor on issues such as trade negotiations or a legislative agenda (i.e. in contrast to its powerful counterpart in Texas ), so the job has been jokingly defined by political insiders as "get up, read the paper, see if the governor
1950-405: The lieutenant governor as president of the California State Senate and provides that all the powers of the governor fall to the lieutenant governor whenever the governor is not in the State of California, with the lieutenant governor often signing or vetoing legislation, or making political appointments, whenever the governor leaves the state. In practice, the lieutenant governor only presides over
2000-438: The lieutenant governor because of their low visibility among the electorate that can make it difficult for the electorate to hold constitutional officers like the lieutenant governor responsible for their actions. Although the lieutenant governor of California's powers and responsibilities are clearly lesser than those of the governor, the ability to make appointments to, and decisions on, the boards of executive agencies does allow
2050-435: The lieutenant governor to make policy decisions that, due to their separate election, might well conflict with the agenda of the governor. Thus, it is argued, California might benefit if the governor and the lieutenant governor ran on the same ticket. The lieutenant governor would then be more likely to help the governor – who is subject to a greater degree of voter scrutiny – to implement his or her policies, but that
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2100-466: The next meeting of the regents). Another example is that until 1901, replacements for lost diplomas required the approval of the regents. At Kerr's encouragement, the Board of Regents cut down on the number of meetings, delegated powers and responsibilities to the university president and the campus chancellors, delegated more power to the Academic Senate, simplified the UC budget, and greatly reduced
2150-443: The office in California history. The lieutenant governor is, after the governor, the highest-ranking executive officer of the state of California. The responsibilities of this independently elected office are largely concerned with core constitutional duties, higher education, natural resources, economic development. In addition, the lieutenant governor carries out some miscellaneous functions. The California Constitution designates
2200-425: The proposed annual budget for July 2011 will be slightly over $ 1 million and include three staffers, while from 1995 to 1999 the office had an $ 1.3 million annual budget with a staff of 17. By contrast the attorney general of California oversees 5,300 employees, including 1,110 state attorneys, and its 2010 budget was over $ 700 million. Italics indicate next-in-line of succession for states and territories without
2250-426: The regents broad institutional autonomy , giving them "full powers of organization and government." According to article IX, section 9, subsection (a), "the regents are "subject only to such legislative control as may be necessary to insure the security of its funds and compliance with the terms of the endowments of the university". Section 11 of the Organic Act establishing the University of California begins with
2300-408: The right to rescind those actions upon his or her return. The lieutenant governor is the only elected official in California to have a comprehensive policymaking role over the entire higher education system. By virtue of office, he or she is a full voting member of the Board of Regents of the University of California , the Board of Trustees of California State University , the Board of Governors of
2350-493: The same authority and privileges as the first two groups of regents; the term "honorary" referred only to their method of selection. As required by Section 11, the Board of Regents proceeded to form a corporation denominated the Regents of the University of California on June 12, 1868, and filed the certificate of incorporation on June 18, 1868 with the California Secretary of State . The corporation's official name today
2400-399: The same year every four years. As a result, California has frequently had a governor and a lieutenant governor of different parties. California has had 41 lieutenant governors and five acting lieutenant governors since achieving statehood in 1850. The current lieutenant governor is Eleni Kounalakis , a Democrat who was sworn into office on January 7, 2019. She is the first woman elected to
2450-615: The university would no longer fund these dinners. The eighteen appointed regents are appointed by the governor of California to serve 12-year terms. The student regent is appointed by the board of regents to serve for a 2 year term, 1-year voting. Student Regent: The Ex officio regents serve on the board of regents by virtue of holding positions elsewhere. Ex officio regents: The following positions do not carry voting abilities or regent status. Regents-designate are non-voting participants who are scheduled to transition to full board membership at later date. Faculty Representatives to
2500-474: Was just as confusing in the 19th century as it is today. In an 1894 wrongful death case, the plaintiffs did not understand this; they sued 16 regents individually, which forced the Supreme Court of California to analyze Section 11 and the June 18, 1868 certificate to hold that the original members of the Board of Regents had properly formed a corporation as a legal entity distinct from themselves. Therefore,
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