The Regents' compensation and educational policy committees will first meet jointly in closed session at 8:30 a.m., followed by a closed session of the full board. At approximately 9 a.m., following public comment, the compensation committee and then the full board will meet in open session to approve the new chancellor's compensation.
Live audio broadcasts of all of the open-session meetings will be available via the Internet. For more information: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/may08.html
Immediately after the Regents' action, the new chancellor will be available for interviews with media attending the meeting at the UCLA Covel Commons location.
The new chancellor will succeed France A. Córdova, who was appointed president of Purdue University in May 2007. Córdova had served as UC Riverside's seventh chancellor for five years, beginning in July 2002.
Robert D. Grey has served as acting chancellor since last June. He previously served as executive assistant to the chancellor for health affairs and, prior to his work at UC Riverside, had a long and distinguished career at UC Davis, where he had been a faculty member since 1967 and served as dean of its division of biological sciences and as provost and executive vice chancellor.
About UC Riverside
One of the most diverse university campuses in the nation, UC Riverside has an enrollment of approximately 17,000 students, and offers bachelor's degree programs in 78 majors, 50 master's degree programs, 38 Ph.D. programs and 17 state teaching credentials. UC Riverside's park-like campus, located on nearly 1,200 acres near the Box Springs Mountains in Southern California, is a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to the region, the state and communities around the world. UC Riverside has a combined economic impact of nearly $1 billion statewide, with more than 70 percent of this economic activity benefiting the Inland Empire.
For more information about UC Riverside: www.ucr.edu and www.impact.ucr.edu
For more information about the University of California: www.universityofcalifornia.edu
Reporters' note: A press room will be open across from the meeting room. Please register for a credential. Parking is available in the garage at Covel Commons. The press room phone number is (310) 206-0409 and the fax number is (310) 206-4661.