The Latest: Napolitano opens UC meeting, no health mention

SAN FRANCISCO – The Latest on the University of California’s Board of Regents meeting (all times local):

10:35 a.m.

University of California President Janet Napolitano has made opening remarks at a Board of Regents meeting but did not comment on her health or recent hospitalization.

The two-day regents meeting that opened Wednesday comes a week after Napolitano’s office announced she was briefly hospitalized for side effects from cancer treatment, following a diagnosis five months earlier.

Her condition had not been previously disclosed.

In her opening remarks, Napolitano urged the regents to approve her proposal to raise tuition for the first time in six years.

The board will vote Thursday. She also reiterated her position that UC campuses will remain “safe, welcoming and inclusive” places for undocumented students.

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10:15 p.m. Tuesday

The University of California’s governing board opens a two-day meeting Wednesday where the key issue is a tuition hike proposed by UC President Janet Napolitano, who recently was hospitalized for side effects from cancer treatment.

Napolitano, 59, is expected at the meeting, which comes a week after her office announced she was hospitalized and at the same time made public that she was diagnosed with cancer last August.

Napolitano returned to work last Friday and was back to her full schedule, according to her office, which has not said what type of cancer Napolitano has or specified the complications from her treatment that caused the hospitalization.

Napolitano, who previously was treated successfully for breast cancer, was a two-term governor of Arizona, serving from 2003 to 2009, before leaving to join President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. She was secretary of the Department of Homeland Security from 2009 to 2013.