Gov. Gavin Newsom appoints podcaster pal Scott Galloway to UC Board of Regents

Gov. Gavin Newsom appoints podcaster pal Scott Galloway to UC Board of Regents reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom appointed Scott Galloway, a media personality and marketing professor at New York University, to the University of California Board of Regents. The appointment was announced Wednesday, with Galloway set to join the UC system’s 26-voting-member governing board if approved by the state Senate. Newsom said the role would not come with a salary and that UC regents have no residency requirement. The article notes that Galloway hosts three podcasts and has previously served on boards including The New York Times, Urban Outfitters, and Panera Bread, and holds degrees from UCLA and UC Berkeley. It also describes his public skepticism about higher education, along with writing on loneliness among young men and related views on factors such as remote work and economic mobility. It adds that Newsom later signed an executive order addressing suicide rates and mental health among young men and boys.