UCLA Faculty Association Blog: 4th Quarter 2021 Blog of UCLA Faculty Association, 4th Quarter of 2021. All video, audio, and animated gifs are omitted. For originals, go to: https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/ 1 2 Contents Watch the Regents Meetings of Sept. 29, 2021 10 Vaccine Mandate Upheld 12 Wrong Way 13 Mixed Messages 14 The Alternative Way to Read the Blog 15 The Missing Item on the Regents' Agenda 16 Longstanding Problem Made Worse By COVID 17 Watch the Regents Meeting of Sept. 30, 2021 19 Churn 21 Size Doesn't Matter 22 Mixed Messages - Part 2 23 Worrying About Inflation 24 Transfers - Part 3 (still waiting for the guv) 26 Santa Barbara's Continuing Housing Crunch and the Larger 27 Issue Transfers - Part 4 (he signed) 29 Rake's Egress 31 Santa Barbara's Continuing Housing Crunch and the Larger 32 Issue - Pa... Regents Health Services Agenda Now Available 34 Still bouncing around too high 36 Uh Oh 37 If you're just waking up... 38 Continued erosion of the Master Plan 39 The Second Coming of the Regents 40 3 LAO summary of UC budget 41 Room to Grow 43 UC (again) mandates flu shots 44 Lecturers' Labor Negotiation News 45 No Test 47 Still stuck 49 Dealing with excess 50 Continued erosion of the Master Plan - Part 2 55 Streisand Institute 57 Lecturers' Labor Negotiation News - Part 2 59 Abbot controversy spills over from MIT to Princeton and now to 60 Berk... Abbot controversy spills over from MIT to Princeton and now to 64 Berk... Just a reminder about "surplus" 66 Lecturers' Labor Negotiation News - Part 3 67 Abbot controversy spills over from MIT to Princeton and now to 68 Berk... Stuck 70 Margo Leavin 71 Watch the Regents' Health Services Committee Meeting of Oct. 73 20, 2021 Watch the Regents' Special Committee on Innovation Transfer 74 & E... New Protocol 75 New Med at Merced? Hard to be sure what the governor said 76 Enforcement (or non-enforcement) of campus coronavirus rules 77 Hastings or Not Hastings 79 4 What will "fully" be? 84 Interim Adjustments 85 Eleven and Fifty 87 Another Week of Being Stuck 88 Munger Hall or Munger Hell? 89 Before Sunset 91 News of Student Researchers' Labor Negotiations 92 Munger Hall or Munger Hell - Part 2 93 Hastings or Not Hastings - Part 2 95 Still Problems With Vax Proof Uploading 97 No Progress 98 Munger Hall or Munger Hell - Part 3 (International Edition) 99 Vax Proof Uploading - Part 2 (mystery somewhat resolved) 101 Munger Hall or Munger Hell - Part 4 102 Did you change your clock? Are you grumpy about it? 112 Free Transit 113 The Regents Will Be Back Next Week in Hybrid Format 114 LA Times Editorial on UC Overenrollment 119 LAO Report on Student Housing 122 Another Belmont in Westwood 123 More on Overenrollment & Munger Hall/Hell 124 Strike News 126 Game Off 127 No Parking 128 Game Off - Part 2 129 Could Jerry Brown's Pension Limitations Be Undone? 130 5 The clock keeps ticking on the Harvard affirmative action case 132 Game Off - Part 3 133 What Happens at UC if the Medicare Advantage Subsidy is 135 Ended? New Canvas Courseware System is Cut from a Different Cloth 139 The Overenrollment Story Continues 142 The Employment Status of Student-Athletes Continues to Be 144 Tested Crowds Without Controls Are Not Wise 146 The Pauley Crowd Event Unmasked 148 Strike News: Lecturer Work Stoppage Scheduled for This Week 150 UC-Santa Barbara Giant Dorm Proposal Makes the New Yorker 151 CalPERS Rate of Return Assumption Drops: What About 153 UCRP? Strike News: No Strike 154 Watch the Regents Meeting of Nov. 16, 2021 155 State Budget Outlook 156 Watch the Regents Afternoon Meeting of Nov. 17, 2021 (and 158 note the ... Watch the Morning Meetings of the Regents: Nov. 17, 2021 161 Same Old; Same Old 164 UC to Require Boosters 165 Watch the Regents Session of Nov. 18, 2021 166 A UCLA Architect's View of the UC-Santa Barbara Munger 168 Building Plan Santa Monica College Again #1 in Transfers to UC 171 Another Possible Strike 172 More on UC Overenrollment 173 6 Then and Now 175 Stong 176 Ogbonnia 180 We can give thanks for that 183 Broxton 184 An Aspect of the Columbia Grad Student Strike 185 Aftermath of the UC Lecturer's Almost Strike 187 Viral Recriminations at Berkeley 189 And still more want to get in 192 LA Times Editorial Criticizes Regents - Without Naming Them - 193 for H... Winter Quarter: No LA County Lockdown 194 More on the UC-SB Munger Monster Dorm 195 December Coronavirus Rules 199 Looking for Omicron at UC-SD 201 UCLA Health on Omicron 203 Let's take it as a good sign 206 The Regents Will Be Diving Deep on Dec. 15th 207 Not Always 209 Innovating, but no diving, at the Regents on Dec. 16 210 Conceptually, Incompletely-Negotiated Monster Dorm 212 More VoIP Concerns 214 SMC to UC 216 Forecast: Somewhat Slower California Recovery Due to 217 Omicron New "Metro Micro" Rideshare Service Coming to UCLA- 219 Westwood Dec. 12 7 The Endless Harvard Admissions Case 220 News: Looks like recognition strike issue is resolved 222 Westwood Crime Concerns 225 Repetition 226 Ambiguous 227 The Latest Scam: Don't Click! 228 The LAO on Student Mental Health 229 UCLA’s Undocumented Alumni Association 230 Uh Oh Omicron! Are We Going Back to the Future? 232 The Search 233 The Future (of Transportation near UCLA) Lies Ahead 235 Uh Oh Omicron! Are We Going Back to the Future? - Part 2 238 Watch the Regents' Health Services Committee Meeting of Dec. 240 15, 2021 Uh Oh Omicron! Are We Going Back to the Future? - Part 3 241 Stuff Happens (and is happening) 243 20,000 Isn't Enough. How About 30,000? 244 Watch the Dec. 16, 2021 Meeting of the Regents' Special 245 Committee o... Still stuck after all 247 Leaving Money on the Table? 248 Does UCLA Have a Plan B for January 3? 249 Stuff Happens (and is happening) - Part 2 250 Does UCLA Have a Plan B for January 3? - Part 2 (Decision 251 Time Is F... While We Wait, Here's the Special Problem for UCLA 254 Contradictory Report on UC Policy for January 255 8 Of the 8 Jan. 3 Starting Date Campuses, 4 Have Gone Online: 256 Radio S... Location of the ball is now on the UCLA campus 258 Location of the ball is now on the UCLA campus - Part 2 260 (Decision!!) Well, thinking about the Monster Dorm will get your mind off 264 Omicro... Shoes 266 Nash 267 No presents from the state's labor market 268 Tongue 269 Donation 270 Is 18 a Magic Number? 273 Is 18 a Magic Number? - Part 2 274 Cancel Culture 276 Is 18 a Magic Number? - Part 3 277 Not Immune to Termination 279 Is 18 a Magic Number? - Part 4 281 Repetition - Part 2 282 Well, maybe not the happiest year ending, but it did go down a 283 bit A World War II Vet Describes New Years Eve in Kansas City, 284 Back in ... 9