regent
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Gov. Gavin Newsom, an ex officio regent who appoints 18 of the 26 board members, has not taken a position.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
When his father became ill in 1990, the crown prince became regent.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
His son, Crown Prince Haakon, 53, has been serving as regent while his father is on leave.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
In 2023, he was appointed a regent of the University of California by Gavin Newsom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Ironically, it was the regent himself who was indirectly to blame for this, for it was the education he had afforded me that had caused me to reject such traditional customs.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
In 2021, the school’s board of regents approved the building of the 163,000-square-foot Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
In his farewell address to the regents that October, he warned against allowing the Smithsonian to become seen as affiliated with one party or ideological bent.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026
Pressure on the regents to quickly decide on the future of the SAT has grown since early this summer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Pro-testing professors have dominated public comment at earlier regents meetings, pointing to all eight Ivy League campuses, Caltech and Stanford, which reintroduced testing after dropping it around the pandemic over test access and equity concerns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The expense of fending off Harvard awakened the University of California regents to the presence of a prodigy on their payroll.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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