2014 Winter - University of California Center Sacramento

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Winter-Spring 2014
CENTER CREATES PUBLIC LECTURESHIP
AND WHITE PAPER COMPETITION
Kevin Bacon (UCD ’72) Gift Promotes Evidence-Based Policy
UC Center has created a public lectureship and white paper competition, focused
on evidence-based public policy. The effort is made
possible by a generous gift from Kevin (UCD ’72) and
Kim Bacon. The lectureship is designed to encourage
UC faculty to synthesize evidence and stimulate creative thinking around a pressing public-policy problem.
The winner of the initial competition will deliver a public
lecture at UC Center in February 2015, prepare a short
White Paper and Policy Synopsis, and receive a research stipend in addition to travel and editorial support. The Bacon gift also will fund additional competitions for lectures in 2016 and 2017.
KEVIN BACON
At the outset, a steering committee identified three broad policy areas for the
competition — health, water and early childhood (pre-K) education. Staff experts
from the Legislature and Brown administration helped formulate specific questions
around each issue. In applying for the Lectureship, faculty members are urged to
address those questions, contained in the “call for proposals” sent to UC faculty
via their deans and chairs on March 21. Those interested have until midnight, May
7, to respond with an application that includes a 500-word structured abstract. All
full-time UC faculty (Senate and Federation) are eligible to apply.
Proposals should explain why the specific issue or question is timely and important; describe how the final product will integrate available evidence with the
faculty member’s own insights and/or primary research; and suggest how policymakers can make wise decisions in the face of insufficient or conflicting evidence.
The winning proposal — focused on one of the three policy areas — will be
awarded by the steering committee, which consists of Robert Brook from RAND
Corporation, Ken Jacobs from UC Berkeley, Amber Mace from 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.
Questions may be addressed to [email protected]. Completed
submissions should be emailed to that address by midnight, May 7.
The Winter Cohort and Their Internships
Left to Right: Patrick Kim (Davis), Victor Gonzalez (Santa Cruz), Gladys Preciado (Davis), Guillermo Barajas Jr.
(Santa Cruz), Mai Vang (Davis), Esmeralda Cano (Davis), Quinn Buniel (Davis), Henry Quintana (Davis), Ricardo Martinez (Davis), Eunji Kim (Davis), Roman Bubela (Davis), Mikayla Habibi (Riverside), Chanelle Castracion
(Riverside).
The 2014 winter program attracted 13 students, with the lion’s share from
UC Davis. The term began with orientation week on January 6 and ended with finals
on March 21. Despite the small size, there was a strong variety of internships. Here
are the winter internship placements:
Guillermo Barajas Jr. (UCSC): Assemblyman Kevin Mullin
Roman Bubela (UCD): Institute for Local Government
Quinn Buniel (UCD): UC Office of the President, State Government Relations
Esmeralda Cano (UCD): ASPCA
Chanelle Castracion (UCR): California Dept. of Education, Executive Office
Victor Gonzalez (UCSC): Assemblyman Anthony Rendon
Mikayla Habibi (UCR): CalPIRG
Eunji Kim (UCD): California Dept. of Public Health, Division of Health Equity
Patrick Kim (UCD): Sacramento City Councilman Steve Hanson
Ricardo Martinez (UCD): CA Immigration Policy Center; Capitol Weekly
Gladys Preciado (UCD): California Dept. of Public Health, Div. of Health Equity
Henry Quintana (UCD): Assemblyman Adam Gray
Mai Moua Vang (UCD): UC Office of the President, Budget Office
UCCS students and staff had the opportunity to meet with UC President Janet Napolitano over lunch on February 19. Students
and the president had a cordial but frank exchange on a range of topics, including student fees, pathways into the UC, and her
vision for the university. Napolitano was in Sacramento for a series of meetings with legislators. L-R: Dr. Richard Kravitz, Chanelle Castracion, Roman Bubela, Gladys Preciado, Patrick Kim, Victor Gonzalez, Eunji Kim, Henry Quintana, Mikayla Habibi,
President Napolitano, Guillermo Barajas, Mai Moua Vang, Esmeralda Cano, Ricardo Martinez, Quinn Buniel.
UCCS Recruits 27 Students for Spring Quarter
One of the largest student cohorts in recent memory will descend on UC
Center for spring quarter. Twenty-seven students, representing six of the system’s
seven quarter-based campuses, will begin study and internships in the capital on
March 31. The term ends June 12.
In addition, another large cohort is shaping up for summer, which runs from
June 16 to August 19. Although the final application deadline is still weeks away, 33
students already have committed to summer — including nine from UCLA.
Here is the campus-by-campus roster of spring students and their majors:
UC Davis
Hannah Bragstad, Political Science-Public Service
Talia De La Torre, Sociology
Anna Dito, International Relations
Meghan Dobiles, History
Amanda Dworkin, Environmental Planning & Policy
Michelle Grant, Spanish
Patrick Henderson, Political Science
Kelsey Hoult, Political Science-Public Service
Phill Lee, Managerial Economics
Mason Livingston, Political Science-Public Service
Janzel Manalansan, Political Science-Public Service
Jugdip Sandhu, Political Science
Alejandro Solis, Political Science
Omar Tinoco, Environmental Planning & Policy
UCLA
Melissa Melgoza, Political Science
UC Riverside
Ruben Barrientos, Philosophy
Jonathan Garzon, Sociology
Katelyn Leviton, Economics
UC San Diego
Aurash Gomroki, Political Science
Santa Barbara
Brenda Diaz, History
Alicen Navarro, Global Studies
Grant Stevenson-Smith, Environmental Studies and Economics
Maria Pia Ramos Toscano, English
Santa Cruz
Victoria Anderson, Politics
Stephanie DaRosa, MCD Biology
Mickenzie Wheeler, Politics
Mark Zevanove, History
SPRING LECTURE SERIES FOCUSES ON
HEALTH, EDUCATION, CRIMINOLOGY
YOUNG
KOMINSKI
TURNER
SPERLING
RUMBERGER
UC Center’s Spring lectures continue the Center’s “mini-series” on health, education and technology. In addition, The series also will feature two significant books
about California: “The Crusades of Cesar Chavez,” with author Miriam Pawel, and
“Weed Land,” with author Peter Hecht, a reporter with The Sacramento Bee. Pawel is
scheduled for May 7 and Hecht for May 15.
The spring series kicks off April 17 with Heather Young, dean of the School of
Nursing at UC Davis Medical Center. She will be followed by a special Tuesday lecture
by Dr. Gerald Kominski from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. His talk, cosponsored by UCLA, will focus on the first year of health-care reform in California.
Other lectures feature Susan Turner, a professor of criminology at UC Irvine;
education professor Russ Rumberger from UC Santa Barbara; Daniel Press, a professor
of environmental sciences from UC Santa Cruz; Paul Dorish, a professor of informatics
at UC Irvine; UC Davis law professor Anupam Chander; and Daniel Sperling from UC
Davis.
Specific topics for each lecture will be available on the UC Center website here.
Most lectures begin on Thursday at noon, with lunch served. Pawel, however, will present her Chavez biography on a Wednesday.
HECHT
PRESS
PAWEL
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.
DOURISH
CHANDER
Rob Gunnison honored with James Madison
Award from Society of Professional Journalists
Rob Gunnison, co-founder of the UC Center PublicAffairs Journalism Program, was honored on March 20 with
the James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the
Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional
Journalists.
Gunnison was named winner of the Beverly Kees
Educator Award for his years of mentoring aspiring journalists and for the re-establishment of required coursework on
access to public records. The award is named for a SPJ NorCal president who was an educator and nationally recognized journalist.
A former Sacramento bureau chief both for UPI and
the San Francisco Chronicle, Gunnison retired last year as
director of school affairs at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he
also taught investigative journalism.
In 2005, Gunnison and former California Journal editor A.G. Block created the
UCCS journalism program to give UC students a chance to “test drive” journalism as a
career — an opportunity not readily available to students on their home campuses. Gunnison is the lead instructor for the program, which operates in conjunction with the graduate school at Berkeley.
This summer will mark the tenth consecutive year UC Center has offered the
journalism program, which runs from June 16 to August 19. More information about the
2014 summer program is available here.
Online Gaming Conference Set for May 22
UC Center will again join with Capitol Weekly to
sponsor a day-long conference on Online Gaming. The
program, which will include four panels and a keynote
speaker, will explore the future of online gaming in California, featuring more than 20 experts. Panels will focus on
fiscal impacts, regulations, Tribal perspectives, winners
and losers, and the politics of getting a bill approved by the
Legislature and signed by the governor.
The conference, the 11th co-sponsored with Capitol Weekly, will be held at 1123
J Street, Sacramento. For more information, contact Capitol Weekly at 916-444-7665.
To register, click here.
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. Contact Associate Director
A.G. Block here.
DIRECTORY
UCCS CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES
Campus
Contact
Phone
E-Mail
Berkeley
Sandra Wilson
916-445-5100
[email protected]
Davis
Ken Barnes
530-752-2011
[email protected]
Irvine
Sharon Parks
949-824-5456
[email protected]
Los Angeles
Brooke Wilkinson
310-825-4945
[email protected]
Merced
Lorena Roedan
209-228-4388
Riverside
Trina Elerts
951-827-2634
[email protected]
San Diego
Kerry Ott
858-534-1708
[email protected]
Santa Barbara
Angelica Arce
805-893-3090
[email protected]
Santa Cruz
Sheila Rodriguez
831-459-2184
[email protected]
UCCS
Sandra Wilson
916-445-5100
[email protected]
APPLY FOR
SUMMER & FALL
2014
SUMMER 2014
Program Dates: June 20-August 16
Final Application Deadline: April 14, 2014
FALL 2014
Program Dates: Sept. 29-Dec. 19
Final Application Deadline: Aug. 4, 2014
For more information contact
Sandra Wilson here.
April 2014
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Passover
Good
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Earth Day
Easter
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Gerald
Kominski
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Arbor
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May 2014
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Rumberger
Lecture
Noon
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Peter
Hecht
Lecture
Noon
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Bike-to-Work
Day
Armed Forces
Day
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Daniel
Press
Lecture
Noon
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Memorial
Day
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Lecture
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Chander
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D-Day
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Quarter
Finals
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Flag Day
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Journalism
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Ramadan
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A.G. Block, Newsletter Editor
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