Chancellor Katehi's address set for Feb. 24

UC Davis officials announced that Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi's State of the Campus address to the Academic Senate next week will be carried live on the Web.

She is scheduled to deliver her address during a regular meeting of the senate's Representative Assembly, on Thursday, Feb. 24, in Ballroom A at the Activities and Recreation Center.

Katehi's speech is listed near the top of the agenda, so the speech should begin shortly after 2:10 p.m. The webcast link will be posted earlier that day on the UC Davis home page.

Katehi's State of the Campus address will be her second since becoming chancellor in August 2009.

CAAA advocates for student support

The Cal Aggie Alumni Association board of directors is going to bat for students in the state’s continuing financial crisis, declaring that UC Davis’ budget shortfall of around $100 million for 2010-11 “could negatively impact the quality of education” that the university provides.

In a resolution approved unanimously on Feb. 5, the board committed to advocating for support for students, by pressing their case with elected officials, and to developing philanthropic support for students.

In addition, the resolution backs Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi and her administration in their advocacy for what they believe should be the “highest priority” in state budget talks: the protection of educational access, affordability and excellence.

The resolution says the world’s economic downtown “has made higher education much more important to our nation, our state and our youth.”

And, as other nations, including China with some 300-plus colleges under construction, are surging to provide higher education, “we must raise our voices to the leadership of our state to reinvest in California public institutions of education at all levels.”

The resolution notes that the annual cost of a UC Davis education, for undergraduates who are California residents, has increased from $4,072 in 2000-01 to $13,080 in 2010-11 — for an average annual increase of $901 over 10 years.

Yet, according to the resolution, based on the actual average annual inflation rate of 2.53 percent during this period, the annual increase in the cost of a UC Davis education for undergraduate California residents should have been only $116.

TRANSITION: New Director of Internal Audit Services

After serving as interim director of Internal Audit Services for the last three months, Jeremiah Maher has been appointed to the position on a permanent basis.

Associate Chancellor Karl Engelbach made the announcement on Feb. 11, saying the appointment came after a nationwide search to replace Rick Catalano, who departed UC Davis to take the audit director position at UC San Francisco.

Maher previously served in UC Davis Internal Audit Services as associate director-health system audits.

“Jeremiah therefore brings to his new position a wealth of experience in all aspects of UC Davis operations and a commitment to assist the campus with ongoing efforts at all levels to appropriately balance risk management and administrative efficiency,” Engelbach said.

Reflections on Korematsu

Earlier this month, the School of Law welcomed Karen Korematsu for a conversation about the Korematsu legacy, referring to her late father, Fred. Next week, the law school puts on another Korematsu event: a panel discussion on the civil rights case that made him famous.

Korematsu, an American, resisted the federal government's internment order for people of Japanese ancestry in World War II. This year, his birthday, Jan. 30, became an annual remembrance day in California: the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution

The panel discussion, "Reflections on Korematsu," is scheduled from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, with a reception to follow, in the Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, 1001 King Hall. Admission is free and open to the public.

The organizers said the panel will feature Dale Minami, lead attorney for Korematsu when, in 1983, he finally won his case against the federal government. Minami and the other panelists, Dean Kevin Johnson and Professor Alan Brownstein, are expected to discuss the impact of the Korematsu case on civil rights, especially after 9/11.

The panel is sponsored by the Asian Pacific Amercan Law Student Association as part of Asian Pacific Islander Week. This year's theme: "A Generation of Progress."

Read about the husband-and-wife law school professors and their new publication, Fred Korematsu: All American Hero, in comic book form, a colorful way to connect his powerful story  to today’s multicultural generation of Californians.