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Winter 2015
BACON LECTURE SET FOR FEBRUARY 26
Michael Gottfried of UCSB to talk on Pre-K Options for English
Language Learners
Dr. Michael Gottfried from the Gervitz School of Education at UC Santa Barbara will deliver the first annual UCCS
Bacon Public Lectureship on Thursday, February 26. Dr.
Gottfried’s talk will take place at UC Center in Sacramento
and focus on “which pre-kindergarten options best prepare
English language learners to start school.”
Dr. Gottfried’s remarks will be followed by a panel
discussion moderated by Rick Simpson, deputy chief of staff
to Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins.
The Bacon Lecture kicks off UC Center’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration and also will feature a reception in honor of Bacon Lecture
founders and supporters Kevin (UCD ‘72) and Kim Bacon. That event, which also
honors Dr. Gottfried, will be held on Wednesday evening, February 25, at the
Center. The lectureship was made possible by a generous gift from the Bacons,
who also provided funding for additional competitions for lectures in 2016 and
2017. Preparations are underway for the 2016 competition.
Dr.Gottfried was selected to give the 2015 Lecture after a UC-wide “call”
to faculty, asking for proposals to stimulate evidence synthesis and creative thinking around a pressing policy issue.
“The Bacon Lectureship affords an important opportunity for UC to deliver
on its promise of discovering and sharing knowledge to advance public good in
California,” said Dr. Richard Kravitz, interim director of UC Center Sacramento.
“With the selection of Professor Michael Gottfried, the series is off to an outstanding start.”
The winning proposal was selected by a steering
committee, consisting of Robert Brook from UCLA and the
RAND Corporation; Ken Jacobs from UC Berkeley; Amber
Mace from UC Davis and the California Consortium for Science & Technology; Thad Kousser from UC San Diego; Karthick Ramakrishnan from UC Riverside; and UCCS Governance Fellow Delaine Eastin.
More information about the Lectureship may be found on the
UCCS website here.
KEVIN BACON
BEV HANSEN SELECTED AS
2015 UCCS GOVERNANCE FELLOW
Former Assemblywoman Bev Hansen
has been named the UC Center Governance
Fellow for 2015. She succeeds 2014 Fellow
Delaine Eastin, a former lawmaker who also
served as state Superintendent of Public Instruction. Hansen is a partner in one of Sacramento’s most prominent government-relations
firms — Lang, Hansen, O’Malley & Miller.
A native of Oroville, Hansen first entered public service as an aide to Republican
state Senator Jim Nielson. She was elected to
the Legislature in her own right in 1986 when
she won a Santa Rosa-based seat in the Assembly. She served in the Assembly until 1992
when she decided not to seek re-election after
the 1991 redistricting process created a district
that heavily favored Democrats. A Republican, she represented the heart of California’s wine country, including Napa, Sonoma, Yolo and Lake counties. During her
tenure, Hansen was part of the Assembly Republican leadership team, eventually
becoming caucus chair in 1990. Two years later, Republicans captured a majority of
the Assembly but Hansen was, by that time, out of elective office. During her tenure,
Hansen was lauded for her ability to work across party lines, where her partner on
key legislation often was then-Assemblywoman Eastin.
“We are delighted to have Bev Hansen join the Center as Governance Fellow,” said Dr. Richard Kravitz, the Center’s interim director. “During her years in the
Legislature, Ms. Hansen earned a reputation for strong bipartisan leadership. A lawmaker of principle, she was willing to reach across the aisle to get things done. At a
time when many young people are losing faith in the political process, Bev Hansen is
a symbol of what people of good will can accomplish. Our students will greatly benefit from the opportunity to interact with her.”
“I am very lucky to be part of this amazing program,” said Hansen, who
joined Eastin recently for Eastin’s final session with UCCS students. “I am very happy that I have been asked to participate as Governance Fellow for 2015. I am certain
the energy of the students will inspire me.”
Hansen becomes the fifth UCCS Governance Fellow, following Roger Niello
(2011), Jack Scott (2012), Mike Villines (2013) and Eastin (2014). Although no longer a Governance Fellow, Eastin will remain on the Center’s Advisory Board.
NIELLO
SCOTT
VILLINES
EASTIN
BIRGENEAU DRAWS CROWD, COMMENT
ON PROPOSED UC TUITION INCREASES
UC Center launched its Tenth Anniversary
celebration with a public lecture by former UC
Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who spoke
before a packed house at UCCS on December 3.
In a talk he characterized as “counter-intuitive,”
Birgeneau argued that a recent controversial proposal to increase student tuition by 5 percent per
year for five years actually benefitted low-income
students andwas needed to maintain UC’s economic and racial diversity. Because of the way the
UC structures both tuition and financial aid, those
hikes, Birgeneau insisted, are borne by the state’s
most affluent families but in turn bolster access for
low-income and minority students.
“People rarely stop to think about the consequences and who will actually pay the increase,”
Birgeneau said. The “payers,” he added, are families that currently make more than
$150,000 a year; families, he said, who can afford it. The beneficiaries are students who
normally would not be able to afford college. For instance, he indicated that a 5 percent
increase in tuition adds as much as $58 million to the Cal Grant program, which is used
to help low-income students bear the cost of higher education.
Prior to his talk, Birgeneau explained his reasoning in a lively, private session
with UC Center students, many of whom attend the university on some form of financial
aid.
Birgeneau served as Berkeley chancellor from 2004 to 2013, when he stepped
down to resume his career as a physics professor on the Berkeley faculty. His appearance at UC Center was the first event in a year-long celebration marking the Center’s
Tenth Anniversary. The next event is the Bacon Lecture, scheduled for February 25-26.
CAPITOL WEEKLY, UCCS PLAN FOUR CONFERENCES IN 2015
In addition to offering more than 40 lectures by noted UC faculty each year,
UC Center teams with Capitol Weekly to sponsor four day-long conferences — one
each quarter. The most recent event took place in November and focused on results
of the general election. It was followed by a reception for newly elected legislators,
sponsored by the Leadership California Institute.
The four conferences planned for 2015 are:
 February: Water Policy in 2015
 May: California Gaming
 September: Health Care
 November: 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.
FALL COHORT AND THEIR INTERNSHIPS
Front: Kelvin Ke, Agustina Montano, Carlos Jose Machuca Rivera, Erika Lee, Matthew Estipona
Middle: Leah Sautelet, Marin Gamboa, Jess Valle, Chris Hayes, Sohab Mehmood, Miriam Alarcon
Back: Andrew O’Connor, Amanpreet Singh, Kavikant Lal, Jay Howard, Diana Hernandez
The Fall cohort of 15 UC Center students represented five of the system’s
undergraduate campuses and held a diverse array of internships. Here are the students, their campuses and their internship placements.
Student
Miriam Alarcon
Marin Gamboa
Christopher Hayes
Diana Hernandez
Jay Howard
Kelvin Ke
Kavikant Lal
Erika Lee
Sohab Mehmood
Agustina Montano
Andrew O’Connor
Carlos Rivera
Leah Sautelet
Amanpreet Singh
Jessica Valle
Campus
San Diego
Santa Cruz
Davis
Davis
Davis
San Diego
Santa Cruz
Davis
Merced
UCLA
Merced
UCLA
Davis
Davis
Davis
Internship
Consul General of Mexico
eCrimes Unit, Department of Justice
California Arts Commission
Victim Services, Department of Justice
California Research Bureau
California Energy Commission
Environment California
Terrorism Assessment Center
iHubs Unit, GO-Biz
Department of Social Services
California Energy Commission
LULAC
Department of Fish and Wildlife
World Trade Center of Northern California
State Senator Lois Wolk
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.
For 2015, many of the lectures will be grouped into three mini-series, each featuring topics of particular importance to California. The three mini-series are:
California 2034: Policymaking Beyond the Next Election Cycle
The policy decisions made in Sacramento today will have long-term consequences. California’s rapid population growth, demographic changes and infrastructure
challenges — coupled with state budget fluctuations and political gridlock — create a
difficult task for policymakers and elected officials. This mini-series addresses long-term
challenges facing policymakers and suggests possible policy solutions. Specific topics
include immigration, infrastructure and transportation and the politics of public pensions.
Energy, Environment and Water
To create a sustainable future, policymakers and elected officials must address
the complex, inextricably linked issues of energy, environment and water. California has
been a nationwide leader in environmental sustainability and conservation, energy innovation, and technological advances related to energy generation. Yet in the midst of a
statewide drought, California’s water challenges may have negative environmental and
economic consequences. To reconcile these conflicts involves questions of regional cooperation, agriculture, statewide and local economics, climate change and resource
management. This mini-series will explore the interplay between energy, environment
and water challenges and how these challenges may also present opportunities to
shape and sustain growth and prosperity throughout California.
Equality, Inequality and Prosperity
California, along with the rest of the nation, faces challenges posed by increased
economic inequality. Yet the causes, solutions and policy responses to inequality are
varied and sometimes controversial. Some argue that inequality is a moral injustice and
call for higher taxes on the wealthy, an end to tax loopholes and corporate subsidies and
greater equality in education and employment. Others respond that inequality is the price
of prosperity and argue that efforts to reduce inequality, such as raising the minimum
wage and higher taxes on corporations and capital gains, could have unintended consequences that might harm the state. This mini-series will examine equality, inequality and
prosperity as it applies to California.
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 WINTER
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 5
Karen Chapple
UC Berkeley
Dr. Garren Wintermute
UC Davis
Dr. Esteban Burchard
UC San Francisco
Robert Fairlie
UC Santa Cruz
Faculty Director
Center for Community
Innovation
Professor of City and
Regional Planning
Director
Violence Prevention
Research Program
Professor, Emergency
Medicine
Director
Center for Genes,
Environment & Health
Professor of Medicine
Chair
Department of
Economics
Professor, Economics
Highlighted by the Bacon Lecture, the Winter Lecture Series promises
to be one of the Center’s most eclectic, with faculty from six different campuses
presenting topics as diverse as sustainable neighborhoods, violence prevention, genetic ancestry, economic inequality, neuropsychology, tax law, California’s changing political landscape, and the relationship between the mind, world
and language.
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.
February 12
February 19
March 5
March 12
Xavier Cagigas
UCLA
Mindy Romero
UC Davis
David Gamage
UC Berkeley
Lera Boroditsky
UC San Diego
Director
Cultural
Neuropsychology
Initiative
Geffen School of
Medicine
Director
California Civic
Engagement Project
Center for
Regional Change
Tax Specialist and
Assistant Professor
of Law
UC Berkeley School
of Law
Editor-in-Chief
Frontiers in Cultural
Psychology
Associate Professor
Cognitive Science
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 Kristina Victor:
kmvictor@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
Brooke Wilkinson
310-825-4945
bwilkinson@college.ucla.edu
Merced
Darryl Fitzgerald
209-228-2991
dfitzgerald@ucmerced.edu
Riverside
Kathleen Sawa
951-827-7750
kathleen.sawa@ucr.edu
San Diego
Amy Nastase
858-534-4366
anastase@ucsd.edu
Santa Barbara
Grace Butler
805-893-3090
gbutler@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
SPRING
SPRING 2015
Program Dates: March 30—June 11
Priority Application Deadline: January 15
Final Deadline: January 26
For more information contact
A.G. Block here.
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