{"id":408790,"date":"2026-07-23T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408790\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T01:14:13","slug":"california-governor-taps-podcaster-for-uc-governing-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408790\/","title":{"rendered":"California governor taps podcaster for UC governing board"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Students<\/p>\n

Students pass by Sather Gate on the campus of University of California, Berkeley on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Former student and now podcaster Scott Galloway has been named to the University of California Board of Regents by Gov. Gavin Newsom. <\/p>\n

Christina House<\/p>\n

TNS<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Scott Galloway, a liberal media personality and New York University marketing professor<\/a> who has appeared on the governor\u2019s podcast, to the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Newsom said Wednesday that Galloway, who lives in Gulf Stream, Florida, and London, would join the UC system\u2019s 26-voting-member governing board if approved by the Senate. Galloway will not earn a salary, nor do UC regents have a residency requirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Galloway hosts three podcasts and previously served on the boards of the New York Times, Urban Outfitters and Panera Bread. He earned degrees from UCLA and UC Berkeley, and has written about his skepticism of higher education<\/a>, calling it a \u201cwonder drug\u201d and comparing elite universities that charge high tuition to \u201ca hedge fund offering classes.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has also emerged as a liberal masculinity guru and corrective to the right-wing \u201cmanosphere\u201d and written about the crisis of loneliness among young men, which he has attributed to a wide range of issues like the rise of pandemic-era remote work and increasing temperance among members of Gen Z.<\/p>\n

He has also influenced some of Newsom\u2019s thinking on the masculinity crisis. On an April 2025 episode of \u201cThis Is Gavin Newsom,\u201d he blamed some young adult men\u2019s isolation on younger generations\u2019 downward economic mobility and the influence of Big Tech, which he said explained their support for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that modern masculinity from the right is \u2018be coarse and cruel, and from the left, it\u2019s \u2018be more like a woman,\u2019 \u201d he told Newsom. \u201cPeople are more isolated, more lonely, and more disconnected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Newsom later signed an executive order directing the state<\/a> to address suicide rates and mental health among young men and boys.<\/p>\n

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Lia Russell<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Lia Russell covers California\u2019s governor for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau. Originally from San Francisco, Lia previously worked for The Baltimore Sun and the Bangor Daily News in Maine.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students pass by Sather Gate on the campus of University of California, Berkeley on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-408790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}