* 1964 – Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents ' decision to forbid protests on UC property.

Under the terms of the will of Avery Hopwood, a prominent American dramatist and member of the Class of 1905 of The University of Michigan, one-fifth of Mr. Hopwood's estate was given to the Regents of the University for the encouragement of creative work in writing.

In May 1999, Washington State University bestowed its highest honor, the Regents ' Distinguished Alumnus Award, upon him.

* 1978: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

The Burger Court ( 1969 – 1986 ) expanded Griswolds right to privacy to strike down abortion laws ( Roe v. Wade ), but divided deeply on affirmative action ( Regents of the University of California v. Bakke ) and campaign finance regulation ( Buckley v. Valeo ), and dithered on the death penalty, ruling first that most applications were defective ( Furman v. Georgia ), then that the death penalty itself was not unconstitutional ( Gregg v. Georgia ).

Dissenting Colgate trustees, faculty, and students founded the University of Rochester, receiving a charter from the Regents of the University of the State of New York on January 31, 1850.

In March 1873, the trustees of Toland Medical College transferred it to the Regents of the University of California, and it became " The Medical Department of the University of California.

The University of California is governed by the Regents of the University of California, as required by the current Constitution of the State of California.

Today, the UC Office of the President and the Office of the Secretary of the Regents of the University of California share an office building in downtown Oakland that serves as the UC system's headquarters.

Victoria University is governed bicamerally by the Victoria University Board of Regents and the Victoria University Senate.

Due to a lawsuit ( USL v. Regents of the University of California ), some potentially so-called encumbered source was agreed to have been distributed within the Berkeley Software Distribution from the University of California, and a subsequent release ( 1993, 4. 4BSD-Lite ) was made by the University to correct this issue.

** University of California Regents v. Bakke: The Supreme Court of the United States bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.

Just 23 days after his death, the Regents of the University of California voted to rename two of the university's nuclear research sites after Lawrence: the Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories.

The Board of Regents of the University of California, urged by then-California Governor Ronald Reagan, fired her from her $ 10, 000 a year post in 1969 because of her membership in the Communist Party.

The Board of Regents was censured by the American Association of University Professors for their failure to reappoint Davis after her teaching contract expired.

On October 20 when California judge, Perry Pacht, ruled that the Regents could not fire Davis because of her affiliation with the Communist Party, Davis resumed her post at the University.

* Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

UC policies and regulations that apply to UC campuses and its two national laboratories in California ( Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore ) no longer apply to LANL, and the LANL director no longer reports to the UC Regents or UC Office of the President.

The Laboratory Director is appointed by the Regents of the University of California and reports to the President of the University of California.

Alivisatos was officially named Berkeley Lab's seventh director by the University of California Board of Regents on November 19, 2009.

The Governor and Lieutenant Governor also serve as ex officio members of the University of California Board of Regents and of the California State University Board of Trustees.

* Regents of the University of California

During 1977 and 1978, Cox also argued the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke before the Court, defending the University of California at Davis medical school's affirmative action system of admissions against constitutional challenge.

Also, in Lapides v. Board of Regents of Univ.

* 2000: Kimel v. Florida Board of Regents

In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Bakke v. Regents that public universities ( and other government institutions ) could not set specific numerical targets based on race for admissions or employment.

* Sipuel v. Board of Regents of Univ.

* McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 )— prohibits segregation in a public institution of higher learning

During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45 ( 1932 ); Smith v. Allwright, 321 U. S. 649 ( 1944 ); Shelley v. Kraemer, 334 U. S. 1 ( 1948 ); Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U. S. 629 ( 1950 ); McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents, 339 U. S. 637 ( 1950 ); NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U. S. 449 ( 1958 ); Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U. S. 454 ( 1960 ) and probably the most famous, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U. S. 483 ( 1954 ), the tide against segregation began to turn.

In 1952, in the case of Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously overruled its 1915 decision and held that motion pictures were entitled to First Amendment protection, so that the New York State Board of Regents could not ban The Miracle, a short film that was one half of L ' Amore ( 1948 ), an anthology film directed by Roberto Rossellini.

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled unconstitutional the admission process of the Medical School at the University of California at Davis, which set aside 16 of the 100 seats for " Blacks ," " Chicanos ," " Asians ," and " American Indians " ( and established a separate admissions process for those 16 spaces ).

In September 2009 criticism over the seven-figure salaries earned by various coaches at Arizona's public universities ( including ASU ) prompted the Arizona Board of Regents to re-evaluate the salary and benefit policy for athletic staff.

Private and alternative education institutions for children in preschool-12th grade include Regents School of Austin, Redeemer Lutheran School, Garza ( public ), Austin Discovery School ( public charter ), Austin Jewish Academy, The Austin Waldorf School, The Griffin School, The Khabele School, Concordia Academy, St. Ignatius Martyr Catholic School, Holy Family Catholic School, San Juan Diego Catholic High School, Brentwood Christian School, St. Austin Catholic School, St. Stephen's Episcopal School, St. Mary's, St. Theresa's, St. Michael's Catholic Academy, St. Gabriel's Catholic School, St. Andrew's Episcopal School, St. Francis Episcopal School, Saint Paul Lutheran School, Trinity Episcopal School, Huntington-Surrey, Cleaview Sudbury School, The Inside Outside School, ACE Academy, Paragon Preparatory Middle School, Austin International School, The Progress School and a number of Montessori schools.

* Centripetal force vs. Centrifugal force, from an online Regents Exam physics tutorial by the Oswego City School District

" Ever since the time of Gendun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama, who formalised the system, the Regents and other monks have gone to the lake to seek guidance on choosing the next reincarnation through visions while meditating there.

In Scotland the Regents fought a civil war on behalf of James VI against his mother's supporters.

During the early years of his reign a group of Bavarian Regents ruled in his name, and made themselves very unpopular by trying to impose German ideas of rigid hierarchical government on the Greeks, while keeping most significant state offices away from them.

The Bavarian Regents ruled until 1837, when at the insistence of Britain and France, they were recalled and Otto thereafter appointed Greek ministers, although Bavarian officials still ran most of the administration and the army.

The UBC Hannover Tigers play in the second German Basketball Association and the Hannover Regents play in the third Bundesliga ( baseball ) division.

San Marino finally had to make a choice on February 5, 1797, when, with the arrival of a letter from General Louis Alexandre Berthier addressed to the Regents, it was required to arrest and consign the Bishop of Rimini, Monsignor Vincenzo Ferretti, accused of instigating crimes against the French, who fled with all his possessions to San Marino.

A solution was found by one of the Regents, Antonio Onofri, who managed to gain the respect and friendship of Napoleon.

In 1828 there were over 280 animals representing at least 60 species The last of the animals left in 1835, relocated to Regents Park, after one of the lions was accused of biting a soldier.

After his death, the other members of the Council of Five Regents were unable to keep the ambitions of Tokugawa Ieyasu in check.