UC Center Sacramento celebrates its 10th anniversary next week with a talk by UC Berkeley Chancellor Emeritus Robert Birgeneau, on the role of higher education.

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UC Davis administers the UC system’s Sacramento center, which offers distinctive academic programs in public policy and journalism, incorporating seminars and internships in and around the state Capitol one block away.

The center “advances the university’s mission of teaching, research and public service with an integrated program to train future state leaders, to address challenging public-policy issues confronted by the nation and state, and to carry out the university’s mandate to assist state government.”

Birgeneau served as Berkeley’s ninth chancellor, from 2004 until stepping down in 2013. He remains a faculty member, as the Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Physics, Materials Science and Engineering, and Public Policy.

He leads the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Lincoln Project, advocating for public colleges and universities, and devising strategies to reverse government’s progressive disinvestment in public higher education. His talk at UC Center Sacramento will be along those lines: “Public Higher Education, Income Inequality and the Future of America.”

Birgeneau’s talk is scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3. Advance registration is requested. The center is in Room LL3 (lower level), 1130 K St. (at 12th Street). Map, directions and parking information.

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