Let me go, says UC-San Francisco

From today's San Francisco Chronicle:

Unlike the other nine campuses of the University of California, UCSF enrolls no undergraduates, offers no history classes and gets so much money from government grants that it barely depends on the tuition its students pay to attend the medical school on a windy San Francisco hill.

...At Thursday's meeting at UC Riverside, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann told the regents, delicately, that she wants out.

Under her proposal, UCSF's medical school, hospital, clinics and research facilities would remain a public university connected to UC, the chancellor assured the regents. But the tendrils connecting the two entities should be thinner than they are today...

We have some audio of the chancellor's presentation from the meeting:

Full story at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/20/MNF11MR2KE.DTL

UC students to protest at regents meeting (tomorrow)

Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury-News 11-26-11

Student protesters with the Occupy movement will converge on four UC campuses Monday morning to vent their fury at a meeting of the regents, with demonstrators in Davis attempting a campuswide shutdown. The meeting, rescheduled after cancellation earlier this month because of threats of violence and vandalism, now includes a one-hour slot for student voices and other public comment, increased from the usual 20 minutes. The regents will be spread out in four locations -- San Francisco, Davis, Los Angeles, and Merced -- and conduct the meeting by teleconference…

Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/health/ci_19419961

Above: In happier days (1960), UC President Clark Kerr meets with Regents committee to select site for UC-Irvine.