As part of the Berkeley Engaged Scholarship Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley, students in this Sociology seminar volunteered with one of 5 non-profits in the Oakland-Berkeley area, which work to help underserved young people aspire to and prepare higher education, gain access to it, and then adapt to the new college environment. This is a webcast of the capstone event for the seminar, where students discuss their experiences and what they learned first hand about the challenges the non-profits face in addressing the serious issues they tackle. They also discuss the organizations themselves: their missions, leadership, management, activities and funding. The non-profits are: Think College Now, Stiles Hall, Marcus Foster Education Fund, East Bay College Fund, and East Bay Consortium. REMARKS FOR BESI COURSE CAPSTONE EVENT Good afternoon. Im Prof Tom Gold of the Sociology Department here at Cal, and I would like to welcome all of our partners and guests to this capstone event. First of all I want to thank you for coming and for your continued support of our students and class. I realize that some people have to leave early, so please feel free to do so. One recurring theme this term has been the extraordinary commitment of time and energy by the staff and volunteers of all of our partners, so we really appreciate your taking the time to join us today. This afternoons agenda is as follows: I will make some remarks about the background of this class, the Maria Hollowell-Fuentes, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology who has assisted me will speak, and then the students, divided by the organization they worked with, will make 15 minute presentations about their experiences. We will then open it up to Q&A and I will make some closing remarks. This seminar is a class in the Sociology Department, and part of the Berkeley Engaged Scholarship Initiative, or BESI, a program which began in the 2008-2009 academic year. I want to thank Victoria Robinson and Megan Voorhees for their unstinting work with BESI and the development of this course. The campuss commitment to service learning is indeed commendable. ...

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Discussion within the panel on "Water, Climate, Food, and Population: Drought, Climate, and Thresholds." Moderated by: Greg Dalton, Climate One Radio. UC Berkeley's 2013 Philomathia Symposium on Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World

Randy Poole, General Manager/Chief Engineer, Sonoma County Water Agency "Leading the Way: A Look at the Sonoma County North American Climate Initiative" Abstract: Why is North America lagging in implementation of climate-protecting technologies and what can be done to actually bring solid, permanent reductions in North American CO2 emissions? http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/WRCA/ccow.html