UC Leaders Delay Vote on Proposal to Limit Faculty’s Airing of Political Views

University of California leaders delayed voting on a controversial policy March 20 that would ban faculty from asserting their political views on university websites. The proposal would prohibit faculty from using department website homepages to make comments on local, regional, global or national issues unrelated to the departments’ operations. UC’s 19-member Board of Regents were to vote on the policy last week, but voted to delay the decision until May to collect more input from the university’s Academic Senate – a regent-appointed board of faculty members – and faculty. “People will submit their issues that they have. … We’ll hear everyone’s point of view,” regent Jay Sures, one of the regents responsible for bringing the proposal forward, said at the meeting....