California Policy Workshop

Dr. Birgeneau speaking on "Public Higher Education, Income Inequality and the Future of America".

This is a video about how considering the best fiscal policy for a state can be approached as posing the same questions as would be relevant for any government. For instance, should any government prefer an ideal consumption tax to an ideal income tax? This talk is presented by Darien Shanske who holds a J.D. from Stanford School of Law, a Ph.D from UC Berkley in Rhetoric, an M.A. from McGill University in Philosophy, and a B.A. from Colombia University.

A video about how water security is the reliable availability of an acceptable quantity & quality of water for health, livelihoods and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks.

Video featuring Sascha von Meier, Co-Director, Electric Grid Research, California Institute for Energy and Environment. She spoke at the UC Center Sacramento about climate change, the transition to a carbon-neutral electricity supply and the integration of high levels of distributed and intermittent resources such as solar and wind power and the serious coordination challenges to the legacy electric grid.

Panel discussion explaining the Affordable Care Act. Weintraub will moderate a panel of plain-speaking experts to explain the act's implications for middle-income people who will be buying their own insurance, low-income Californians who will gain access to Medi-Cal, and employers who will be buying coverage for their workers or sending them into the new Health Benefits Exchange.

A video about social networking websites that are changing the way people are interacting with the world. Facebook is the most popular social networking website and most visited website in the world. While the world changes, this presents interesting questions for how these type of interactions affect the political sphere.

A video introducing the physics of the Sun and its role in governing Earth’s climate and the public’s understanding of climate change.

In this lecture by Gerald F. Kominiski, we learn how the new federal health care law will affect Californians. Kominiski is a professor of Health Policy and Management and director of the Center for Health Policy Research in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.

A video about California changing from a state that was overwhelmingly white to one in which a majority of students in the public schools is Latino. It simultaneously changed from a “golden” state of opportunity to one that has struggled to deliver on its promise to provide a high quality education for its youth.

A video about Lake Tahoe and the State of the Lake Report, is an annual summary of how natural variability, long term change and human activity have affected the lake’s clarity, physics, chemistry and biology.

This is the first of two videos featuring Greg Duncan, distinguished professor of education at UC Irvine. He talks about the forces that have translated growing gaps in family incomes into growing gaps in educational outcomes —and what we can do about them.

This is the second of two videos featuring Greg Duncan, distinguished professor of education at UC Irvine. He talks about the forces that have translated growing gaps in family incomes into growing gaps in educational outcomes — and what we can do about them.

This is the first of two videos featuring Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis. He spoke about California's economy running on energy, information, and water, all of which are delivered by complex network infrastructures.

This is the second of two videos featuring Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural and resource economics at UC Davis. He addresses California's economy running on energy, information, and water, all of which are delivered by complex network infrastructures.

This is the first of two videos featuring Cordula Dick-Muehlke, director of education, at UC Irvine MIND. She addresses the multiple challenges that the growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease presents to California and the nation. She highlights key elements of the California State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease, released to the state Legislature last year, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

This is the first of two videos featuring Cordula Dick-Muehlke, director of education, at UC Irvine MIND. She addresses the multiple challenges that the growing epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease presents to California and the nation. She highlights key elements of the California State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease, released to the state Legislature last year, and the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.

This is the first of two videos featuring Shawn Kantor, professor of economics at UC Merced speaking about knowledge-based spillovers from research university activity in urban counties.

This is the second of two videos featuring Shawn Kantor, professor of economics at UC Merced speaking about knowledge-based spillovers from research university activity in urban counties.

This is the first of two videos featuring Ethan Elkind, a climate policy associate at UC Berkeley and UCLA schools of law. Elkind addresses how real estate developers, energy efficiency contractors, and clean tech companies can help California meet its environmental goals.

This is the second of two videos featuring Ethan Elkind, a climate policy associate at UC Berkeley and UCLA schools of law. Elkind addresses how real estate developers, energy efficiency contractors, and clean tech companies can help California meet its environmental goals.

This is the first of three videos featuring Steven Erie, professor of political science at UC San Diego; Vladimir Kogan,a political science graduate student at UC San Diego; and Scott MacKenzie, assistant professor of political science at UC Davis. They speak about their book, an eye-opening narrative in which the authors mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego.

This is the second of three videos featuring political scientists Erie, Kogan and MacKenzie. They talk about their book, an eye-opening narrative in which the authors mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego.

This is the third of three videos featuring political scientists Erie, Kogan and MacKenzie. They talk about their book, an eye-opening narrative in which the authors mix policy analysis, political theory, and history to explore and explain the unintended but largely predictable failures of governance in San Diego.

This is the first of two videos featuring Mary Walshok, associate vice chancellor for public programs at UC San Diego. She spoke at the UC Center Sacramento about the role of higher education in employment.

In the second part Mary Walshok,'s talk, the associate vice chancellor for public programs at UC San Diego, continues to link higher education to job growth.