University of California Center Sacramento
Advancing UC’s mission of teaching, research and public service
CENTER of the CAPITAL
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FALL 2015
BERKELEY PROFESSOR AWARDED
SECOND ANNUAL BACON LECTURESHIP
Karen Chapple Explores Tax incentives as Related to Climate
Change Goals
Dr. Karen Chapple, a professor from the Center
for Community Innovation at UC Berkeley, has
won the second annual UCCS Bacon Public
Lectureship and White Paper Competition.
Open to faculty and researchers throughout the
UC system, the Lectureship is dedicated to evidence-based public policy.
Dr. Chapple’s entry focused on how to relate tax
incentives to the state’s climate-change goals.
Her lecture on that topic will be presented at UC
Center on February 24, 2016. Dr. Chapple will
receive research support and meet with relevant
policy staff in Sacramento. Her entry was selected by a panel of policy experts convened by UC
Center.
This past February, the inaugural Bacon Lectureship was presented by Dr. Michael Gottfried of the Gervitz School of Education at UC Santa Barbara.
The lectureship was made possible by a generous gift from the Bacons, who provided funding for competitions for lectures in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Dr. Richard Kravitz, director of UC Center Sacramento, believes that the Bacon Lectureship affords an important opportunity for the University of California to deliver on its
promise of discovering and sharing knowledge to advance
the public good in California.
“Through the generosity of Kevin and Kim Bacon, UC Center will bring world-class UC faculty to the state Capitol to
address critical policy questions raised by legislative staff
and other governmental officials,” said Dr. Kravitz.
KEVIN BACON
More information about the Lectureship may be found on the UCCS website here.
From the Director’s Desk
New Programs For Graduate Students
Having shed my interim title this summer, I am pleased
to write for the first time as the UC Center's "permanent"
director and to share some of the excitement I feel as
the new quarter gets underway. Undergraduate enrollment in the Public Policy Program continues to grow; 43
students participated in the Public Policy and Journalism
programs this summer, and a record 27 students representing five UC campuses are here this fall. These students undertake rigorous coursework in policy analysis
and California politics while working in internships in
and around the State Capitol. Their assignments are
diverse, ranging from the Legislature to the Sacramento
County Public Defender and Governor’s Office of Planning and Research.
Although the focus of our educational programs is on undergraduate internships, UCCS
has launched two new programs involving graduate and professional students. This
is fitting, given UC's unique role under the State's Master Plan in preparing graduate students for careers in academia, industry, government and the professions. The
UCCS Emerging Scholars Program selects graduate students on a competitive basis to
deliver a public lecture on their policy-relevant research. This year's winners, both of
whom gave talks in mid-summer, were Ann Hollingshead of the Goldman School at UC
Berkeley and Cameron Sublett from the Gevritz School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. UCCS was also a key partner in this summer's Emerging Leaders in Public Policy
Program, a UC Davis program that affords graduate students in disparate fields an opportunity to apply their disciplinary knowledge in the service of State government.
Meanwhile, the UCCS Speakers Series continues its tradition of bringing top-notch UC
faculty to deliver Thursday noontime lectures on topics of far-reaching policy importance.
This year, many of the lectures are organized around the 2015-16 "Mini-Series" themes
of drought and water security; health and health care; and revenue and taxation (see
page 6).
These activities are just some of the ways UCCS strives to achieve its dual mission of
preparing students to be better citizens while sharing knowledge in support of better,
more evidence-based public policy. In future newsletters, we will "drill-down" and examine some of the specific ways UCCS is working with state and local governments and
the non-profit sector to educate students and support policymakers.
— Richard L. Kravitz, MD, MSPH
Capitol Weekly, UCCS Plan Health, Education Conferences
In addition to offering more than 40 lectures by noted UC faculty each year, UC Center teams with Capitol Weekly to sponsor day-long conferences. The first two conferences explored water policy (February) and Online Gaming (May).
A September 23 conference will focus on health care and feature a keynote speech
by Diana Dooley, secretary of Health and Human Services. A November conference
will focus on education.
For more information on the conferences, including exact dates and a more detailed
schedule of events, please contact Tim Foster at Capitol Weekly at (916) 444-7665,
or check the Capitol Weekly website here.
Kristina Victor Named UCCS Instructor
UC Center Sacramento has hired Kristina Victor to teach
the program’s two academic courses — Political Science
195 and Political Science 192. The two classes, worth a
total of 14 credits, are taught each quarter and comprise
the program’s academic component. POL 195 is a fourunit seminar on California public policy; POL 192, which is
broken into two five-unit segments (A&B), provides 10
units associated with each student’s internship.
Victor is a UC Davis doctoral candidate in American politics and political behavior. Her research interests include
public policy, immigration, race and ethnic politics, survey
and experimental methodology, and political psychology.
Her research focuses on how individuals use cues to
make decisions and how those cues influence support for redistributive public policy.
Before attending UC Davis, Victor earned a BA in International Relations and an MA in
International Affairs from CSU-Sacramento.
“At the Center, it is my goal that students have an opportunity to apply wheat they learn
in their courses,” Victor said. “Students will produce an original research project related
to the work at their internships. The courses at the Center will provide the students with
the framework for examining important public policies in California and will give them the
research tools necessary for collecting, analyzing, and presenting empirical evidence.”
Victor’s two-year stint as instructor begins with the Fall 2015 quarter. Prior to her coming
on board, UCCS classes were taught by faculty from the UC Davis Political Science Department, with each class having a dedicated teaching assistant. In the past, Victor herself was the TA for POL 195. She also worked as a graduate assistant at the Center,
responsible for scheduling speakers for the Center’s public-lecture series.
Calling all UCCS Alumni
Hey, UCCS alumni! The Center would like to hear from you and to make sure you remain a part of the UC Center family. Since the Center’s inception in 2004, more than
1200 of you, representing all 10 UC campuses, have participated in UCCS’ public policy
and journalism programs.
To help you stay in touch, the Center is in the process of creating an active, vibrant and
robust alumni association. And we need your input, suggestions and — most important
— your current contact information. Many of the email addresses in our database are
UC emails, now long inactive.
At the moment, a steering committee is working on forming an association, and we’ll be
in touch soon with details. Members of the steering committee are Angela Blanchard
(Davis, 2004), Eduardo Aguilar (Davis, 2004), Quinn Buniel (Davis, 2014), Josh Hoover
(UCLA, 2011), Cindy Quiralte (Riverside, 2014), Tamara Torlakson (Santa Cruz, 2008),
Patrick Welch (Santa Cruz, 2011), Nina Kapoor (San Diego, 2005) and Jessica Mosack
(Davis, 2013).
If you are interested in helping, or wish to update our database with your current information, please contact Brooke Miller-Jacobs at UC Davis. Her email address is bmmillerjacobs@ucdavis.edu.
ROBUST SUMMER PROGRAM ATTRACTS
32 POLICY AND 11 JOURNALISM STUDENTS
Policy
Amreet Badesha
Peter Baldwin
Miguel Bastidas
Paymon Bonyadi
Carlos Castellon
Lea Chang
Damanjot Chatha
Yesenia Chavez
Camila Chica
Rebecca Chong
Danielle Damper
Ivy Feng
Adriana Garcia
Reynaldo Garduno
Amy Garfinkel
Katerina Hora
Reginald Johnson
Tajinder Kaur
Jiyeon Kim
Gagan Kumar
Martha Mendoza
Melissa Merida
Anoli Motawala
Timothy Nguyen
Kiana Okhovat
Alfonso Quintero
Vahe Sargsyan
Kyle Smith
James Spradley
Whitney Thompson
Taylor Tibbs
David Vigil
Campus
Riverside
Davis
Davis
Davis
UCLA
UCLA
Davis
Santa Cruz
Davis
San Diego
Davis
Davis
Santa Cruz
San Diego
Berkeley
Santa Barbara
Merced
Santa Cruz
Irvine
Santa Cruz
UCLA
UCLA
Santa Barbara
UCLA
Davis
Santa Cruz
Davis
Davis
UCLA
UCLA
Santa Cruz
Davis
Internship
Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez
Assemblyman Jim Gallagher
California Forward
Center for International Trade Development
California Community Colleges
Environment California
Department of Education
Sacramento Councilman Rick Jennings
Department of Justice: eCrimes unit
Mental Health Oversight Commission
Redwood Pacific
Department of Education
Secretary of State’s Office
Department of Public Health
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Department of Public Health
Dept. of Housing & Community Develop.
Institute for Local Government
California School Boards Association
Department of Public Health
Primary Care Association
Department of Education
California Research Bureau
Governor’s Office of Govt. Operations
Senator Ben Allen
California Research Bureau
Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce
Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Sacramento Councilman Rick Jennings
Fair Political Practices Commission
Fair Political Practices Commission
Consul General of Mexico
Journalism
Alvin Chen
Meena Chong
Starquet Edwards
Shannon Flaherty
Jessica Hice
Alice Hsueh
Alexandra Klivans
Vanessa McGee
Virginia McCormick
Sawsan Morrar
Janine Sobers
Campus
Berkeley
Davis
UCLA
Davis
CSUS
Davis
Riverside
Santa Cruz
CSUS
Davis
San Diego
Internship
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
KCRA Channel 3
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
Capitol News/Capitol Weekly
FALL COHORT SETS ENROLLMENT RECORD
The first cohort of students for the 2016-27 academic year set an enrollment
record for fall quarter at UC Center Sacramento. Twenty-seven students, representing five of the system’s undergraduate campuses, descended on Sacramento on
September 21 for the start of fall quarter. Fourteen students come from neighboring
UC Davis, while an additional seven students come north from UCLA. UC Santa
Cruz (#), UC Santa Barbara (2), and UC San Diego (1) rounded out the class. Here
are the fall students, their campuses and their internship placements.
Student
Abel Acosta
Laura Alba
Nancy Au
Tam Au
Pilar Barr
Elizabeth Byrne
Kevin Cruz
Stephanie Flores
Marlene Garcia
Jasmin Herrera
Roxana Hurtado
Keith Jenkins
Taylor Jue
Jamie Loey
Kevin Miller
Andrew Neiman
Christopher Orlando
Noemi Pasillas
Jaylyn Ransom
Austin Ruggeberg
Nicholas Schroeder
Greta Soos
Scott Soykin
Joseph Vasilieff
Jessica Velasquez
Sandra Yam
Campus
UCLA
UCLA
Davis
UCLA
Santa Barbara
Davis
Davis
Santa Cruz
UCLA
Santa Cruz
UCLA
Davis
Davis
Davis
Davis
Santa Barbara
Davis
Davis
Davis
Davis
San Diego
Davis
Davis
Davis
UCLA
Santa Cruz
Internship
Common Cause
Department of Education
Child & Family Policy Institute
Department of Public Health
Sacramento County Public Defender
State Lands Commission
Office of Planning & Research
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Dept. of Housing & Comm. Development
Department of Education
Western Center on Law & Poverty
Sacramento Councilman Rick Jennings
Department of Public Health
California Arts Council
Fair Political Practices Commission
Fair Political Practices Commission
Department of Justice
Institute for Local Government
Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce
Assemblyman Phil Ting
Office of Planning & Research
Sacramento Councilman Rick Jennings
Covered California
LULAC
Yolo County Public Defender
HOST AN INTERN?
Interested in hosting a UC Center intern? Since 2004, UCCS has placed more than
a thousand bright, hard-working interns
throughout the capital’s policy community.
UCCS students are upper-level UC undergraduates with a minimum of 3.0 GPA. Learn more
about hosting an intern here. Or, contact Associate Director A.G. Block here.
UCCS LECTURES TO FEATURE MINI-SERIES ON
THREE AREAS VITAL TO CALIFORNIA’S FUTURE
UC Center hosts more than 40 public lectures a year at is downtown Sacramento conference center. These talks normally are held on Thursdays at noon and feature
noted faculty from across the University of California system who present the results of
their research and share their expertise with UCCS students and the Capital’s policymaking community.
Many of the lectures will be grouped into three mini-series, each featuring topics
of particular importance to California. The three mini-series for the 2015-16 season are:
Water Use and Security
Water is not only essential for life, it is an important economic input for almost
any type of production, whether in agriculture, energy, transportation. Drought-related
hardships have created opportunities for California to become a leader in water conservation, reuse, infrastructure, desalination and groundwater management. Water security
in California will necessarily include multiple strategies to meet existing and future demands. This mini-series will examine the unintended consequences of existing water
policies; the political, economic and social trade-offs policymakers consider as they craft
new water policy; and the environmental impacts on vulnerable ecosystems.
Health and Health Care
The implementation of health-care reform at the national level has reinvigorated
discussions about the best ways to preserve the health of the public. Despite increased
access to health-care services facilitated by the Affordable Care Act, disparities in access and quality of care continue to exist. This mini-series will examine the changing
policy environment and consequences of access to health insurance; policy responses
to dealing with health disparities and chronic diseases; and research evaluating the
steps taken to reduce barriers to efficient, affordable health care for the underserved.
Revenue and Taxation
The recent fiscal history of California resembles a roller-coaster of boom and
bust. During good economic times, income tax revenue increases along with public
spending. But when the economic cycle inevitable bottoms out, Californians endure
years of deficits and uncomfortable belt-tightening. Finding ways to stabilize revenues
through good times and bad is an urgent public-policy imperative. This mini-series will
examine ways policymakers are using taxation to generate increased revenue from nontraditional sources in the continued shadow of Proposition 13; the impact of taxation and
redistributive economics on the growing wealth gap; and (as part of the 2016 Bacon
Public Lectureship), the use of city and state revenue systems to support California’s
environmental and climate-change goals.
For more details on these series, and on other lectures at UC Center, please
monitor the UCCS website here.
REGISTER FOR SEMINARS ON LINE
Those interested in attending the public seminars mentioned above may register for events
on line at http://uccs.ucdavis.edu/events.
Online registration will be available seven days
prior to each seminar. Monthly events are listed
in the calendar section of each newsletter and
on the UCCS website.
UC CENTER LECTURERS FOR FALL
October 1
October 8
October 15
October 29
Timu Gallien
UC San Diego
Thorne Lay
UC Santa Cruz
Eleanor Schwarz, MD
UC Davis
Wei-Chun Chin
UC Merced
Postdoctoral Scholar
Scripps Institution of
Oceanography
Distinguished Professor
of Earth and Planetary
Sciences
Professor of Internal
Medicine and Health
Services Research
Associate Professor
School of Engineering
The Fall Lecture Series at UC Center will feature talks on mapping the
rise of sea levels, a global surge of severe earthquakes, the consequences of
oil spills, the challenges faced by less-skilled workers in the new labor market,
American views of climate change in the face of controversy over the science,
and challenges for young adults after five years of the Affordable Care Act.
All lectures are held on Thursdays at noon at UC Center, 1130 K
Street, Sacramento, Lower Level, Conference Room B. In addition, The Center
now has a “frequent attendee program.” Attend 10 events; fill out the attendee
card; receive a gift from UCCS.
November 5
November 12
November 19
December 3
Michael Stoll
UCLA
Jon Krosnick
Stanford University
Kathleen Tebb
UC San Francisco
Gail Goodman
UC Davis
Professor, Public Policy
Luskin School of
Public Affairs
Professor of Humanities
and Social Services
Associate Professor
Distinguished Professor
of Psychology
Center for
Poverty Research
Meet with UC Faculty Researchers
In an effort to make UC research expertise
available to as many policymakers as possible,
UC Center will arrange meetings with speakers
who lecture in Sacramento. To request a meeting with an upcoming speaker for your staff or
agency, please contact Jamie Jackson:
jajack@ucdavis.edu
UCCS FEATURED IN PROMOTIONAL VIDEO
Want to learn more about UC Center? A new video, featuring former and
current students and UCCS Interim Director Dr. Richard Kravitz, is now
available. You can watch it on the UC Center website here.
DIRECTORY
UCCS CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES
Campus
Contact
Phone
E-Mail
Berkeley
A.G. Block
916-445-7300
agblock@ucdavis.edu
Davis
Ken Barnes
530-752-2011
klbarnes@ucdavis.edu
Irvine
Sharon Parks
949-824-5456
sparks@uci.edu
Los Angeles
Joan Edwards
310-206-2792
jedwards@college.ucla.edu
Merced
Myra Fernandez
209-228-4259
mfernandez29@ucmerced.edu
Riverside
Kathleen Sawa
951-827-7750
kathleen.sawa@ucr.edu
San Diego
Daniel Carillo
858-534-4366
d6carillo@ucsd.edu
Santa Barbara
Eden Slone
805-893-3090
eslone@ltsc.ucsb.edu
Santa Cruz
Sheila Rodriguez
831-459-2184
sheilar@ucsc.edu
UCCS
A.G. Block
916-445-7300
agblock@ucdavis.edu
APPLY FOR WINTER, SPRING
WINTER 2016
Program Dates: January 4 — March 19
Application Deadline: October 5, 2015
SPRING 2016
Program Dates: March 28 — June 9
Application Deadline: January 15, 2016
For more information contact
A.G. Block here.
September 2015
Sun
6
Mon
7
Tue
Wed
Thu
20
2
3
4
5
8
9
10
11
12
Patriot’s Day
14
15
Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana
21
22
16
17
18
19
23
24
25
26
FALL
FALL
FALL
FALL
FALL
ORIENTATION
ORIENTATION
ORIENTATION
ORIENTATION
ORIENTATION
Yom Kippur
27
28
Sat
1
Labor Day
13
Fri
29
30
October 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
1
Fri
Sat
2
3
9
10
16
17
23
24
30
31
Timu Gallien
Lecture
Noon
POL 195
POL 192
4
5
6
7
8
Thorne Lay
Lecture
Noon
POL 195
POL 192
11
12
13
14
15
Eleanor
Schwarz
Lecture
Noon
Islamic
New Year
Columbus Day
POL 195
POL 192
18
19
20
21
22
POL 195
POL 192
25
26
27
28
29
Wei-Chin
Chun Lecture
Noon
POL 195
POL 192
November 2015
Sun
1
Mon
2
Tue
3
Wed
4
Thu
5
Fri
Sat
6
7
13
14
20
21
27
28
Michael Stoll
Lecture
Noon
Daylight
Savings
Ends
8
POL 195
POL 192
9
10
11
12
Jon Krosnick
Lecture
Noon
Veteran’s
Day
15
16
17
18
POL 195
POL 192
19
Kathleen Tebb
Lecture
Noon
POL 195
POL 192
22
23
29
30
Advent
Begins
24
25
26
December 2015
Sun
Mon
Tue
1
Wed
2
Thu
3
Fri
Sat
4
5
11
12
Gail Goodman
Lecture
Noon
POL 195
POL 192
6
7
8
9
10
POL 195
Final Exam
End of
Fall Quarter
Hanukkah
Begins
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
30
31
Winter
Solstice
27
28
29
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