On March 11, Professor of Environmental Practice Rick Frank was invited to testify before the California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water in Sacramento. The hearing was titled “The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) at 11 Years: Progress and Challenges.”
Professor Kevin R. Johnson spoke to CalMatters for a March 19 story on how students are urging universities to prevent arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on their campuses.
The calls come in light of the Trump administration’s reversal in January of longtime U.S. policies that limited ICE from arresting people at “sensitive locations” such as schools and churches.
Pew Research Center Senior Writer and Editor Jens Manuel Krogstad also presented during the webinar, which included a special introduction by Monterey County Supervisor and UC Davis Law alumnus Luis Alejo ’01, CSAC’s second vice president.
Professor Darien Shanske argues that states and/or university systems issue taxable 100-year century bonds to support key research projects amid the Trump administration’s cuts to core projects.
Professor Kevin R. Johnson has joined the advisory committee for a forthcoming California Museum exhibit on forced deportations of Latina/o Californians. Legendary farm labor and civil rights organizer Dolores Huerta and UCLA history Professor Kelly Lytle Hernández also are advisors.
