{"id":386564,"date":"2026-07-25T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T20:59:10","slug":"newsom-appoints-podcaster-scott-galloway-to-university-of-california-board-of-regents-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/386564\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom appoints podcaster Scott Galloway to University of California Board of Regents \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"

This story was originally published by EdSource<\/a>. Sign up for their daily newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed podcaster Scott Galloway to the UC Board of Regents on Wednesday, Politico<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

Galloway co-hosts a popular tech and business podcast with Kara Swisher, a U.S. journalist who covers the business of the internet. He is also a professor of marketing at NYU. Galloway has founded several consulting and digital research companies \u2014 and has been on the boards of\u00a0 Urban Outfitters, Panera Bread and The New York Times, according to Politico.<\/p>\n

Galloway, who is a Democrat, has written about isolation and loneliness among young men \u2014\u00a0an issue Newsom has also addressed<\/a>, including through an executive order to help address suicide rates and disconnection among boys and young men, according to Politico.<\/p>\n

Galloway currently lives in Florida and has received degrees from UC Berkeley and UCLA. He has given substantial gifts to both.<\/p>\n

While he has been critical of some elite universities for efforts to \u201csequester supply\u201d by keeping enrollment low and hiking tuition, Galloway has praised the UC system for increasing first-year class sizes and expanding access by offering courses at different times of the year and day, Politico reported.<\/p>\n

Newsom also appointed two new members to the CSU Board of Trustees: Doug Hendrickson \u2014 the executive vice president of The Team, a major sports, music and entertainment agency \u2014 and Jackson Martinez, a student in Cal Poly San Luis Obispo\u2019s blended Bachelor of Arts in political science and Master of Public Policy program.<\/p>\n

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