Welcome to the European Jenkins Docs Office Hours. Today is July 7th. And today we have a little bit more of an agenda than we have lately. We have a couple of action items that Mark will share. Just quick status update on. We have some exciting news, a lot of stuff going on. We had our 2.358 release this week, which now is requiring at least Java 11. We have the Jenkins 2.346.2 LTS release coming out. That's going to include the change log in upgrade guide. If we'll be able to share with the Google Summer Code progress updates that he has. We have some additional improvements and enhancements that we're going to be working on for Java 11. It's not a one and done situation. There are still other pieces that need to be updated. And Basil Crow is working on that for us. And then we also have a proposal by Gavin Mogan, who is one of the Jenkins Governance Board members about enhancing and creating a new commercial support site. The current one is out of date and not necessarily the best resource for users. So creating an updated one based on the stories.Jenkins.io will go a long way in helping to improve that experience. And then there was a pull request submitted recently that suggested some changes to the navigation banners, headers, and then we'll be able to share our sales actions, pretty much any part of the background on the Jenkins site. And they're looking for feedback. We've got some, Mark and other folks have already responded, let them know about recent font changes and other pieces that are important in that case. But we'll go over that in time. So first things first. Mark, if you want to just give us a quick update on the first two items there interaction items. Sure. Still no progress. Sorry. Yep. No worries. Okay. Great. And so then again the 2.358 weekly release line was released this week. So now that requires at least Java 11. It also offers Java 17 support. Java is no longer supported. And that will be reflected by the LTS in September, when it catches up and matches the weekly release line requirements. I'm actually, I've also gone through and added some context to the documentation regarding that letting folks know that there is that distinction between the week release and LTS releases. So hopefully everyone's very clear on that and they have if they have questions they can direct them properly. But that should be fairly clear. We have the Jenkins June, the July LTS coming up the 2.346.2 change log enough great guide which the pull request has been submitted. Mark and I have been working on the content reviewing and just making sure that everything looks solid and clear for the release itself. And the updates that I made a suggestion that's been applied. So, but everything else looks great so that should be pretty straightforward at this point. Would you like to show us or take us through the Google son or code and what's what you've been up to since last we spoke. I'm sure so a couple of pull requests to Jenkins that I got much this week and the first one being about the data type details so that has been merged and we can see the reflected changes on the website now. So, everything has been very successfully and all the documentation has been updated accordingly, all the ASCII docs. Then this week I also created a pull request to add a search filter on the pipeline steps efforts page. So basically this steps filter filter out the content on the page dynamically and like yeah if you could demonstrate that something that so all the content would get filter accordingly and basically the advantages of this over a normal browser like this would be if for example you search it and you want to see the related plugins of the steps. When you search that on the browser you get the results, but the other things which are not relevant don't get removed. So you have to navigate between those things top down and it's quite tedious. So now I think this makes it slightly easier to understand to find the piece of information that user wants. So this was the pull request that was merged on Wednesday, I guess, yesterday. And you have to show the mark weight thing. All right, the one that the one that caused me pain and anguish and that VHANA has made my life better. Search for the word checkout. No, no, go back to that. That pipeline steps reference search for the word checkout. Okay, so in order to find things about checkout checkout is one of the most commonly used operations in the pipeline, one of the most common. I would search for the word checkout in the old days, I would press control F, I would enter the word checkout, and it would find the bit bucket server integration first which is not relevant. It would find plastic SCM second which is also not relevant to what I was trying to do. Finally would show me pipeline SCM step I am now for for keyboard interactions in and a little frustrated. What VHANA has done is I type one word checkout and there it is right on my screen, I didn't have to scroll and navigate VHANA really thank you. This is great. Yeah, this looks incredible. I'm glad it came back to me so yeah. Thank you. Yeah, it's great. I was actually checking it out to earlier myself beyond it's really nice really smooth it's very responsive and absolutely makes it a much nicer experience trying to find anything on the steps reference page so that that's that's terrific. Thank you. Thank you. Did you have anything else on the projects you were going to be on or is that cover everything for us today. Yeah, one more thing that the release of the pipeline material titles has been complete so John Mark helped me with that. And now we can see the artifact on the artifact agent is artifact and perhaps the next thing would include VHANA is not as high as Mark showed us last week. So John Mark said that he'll take care of that. So the CD part is like yet to be done. But since there are not many releases that are happening for that repository right now I think that becomes low priority for us and adding some tests to it are some things imagined right now for it. For my clarity, do you intend to replace some capabilities that are some classes that are currently inside the pipeline steps doc generator with references to this library is that how you're envisioning will work. Yes. So we can replace the mock Jenkins or Java mock extension list or Java and the hyper local plugin manager the main body of the from which we can actually execute the reactor inquiry, the plugin manager to get the results so these three classes will not be required in the main repository any longer. So yeah, that was it from my side. This was the week's progress. Awesome. Thank you so much. Looks like there's been a lot. So that's very exciting. And yeah, very much kudos to you. Thank you. Next on the agenda, just some Java 11 further improvements that we're working on the jetty upgrade from version nine X to 10 X and a few other dependencies necessities that are being that need to be upgraded so that's some of the pros helping us and working on those upgraded enhancements. Again, this is not something that can be done very easily or in one go is over time so it's a marathon not a sprint network yard. And then. While Mark's typing out that information or mark if you want to, would you be able to share a little insight on that. This was a fun improvement that comes as a result of the Java 11 work. The jetty project announced the end of community support for jetty nine about a month ago. Our timing is really good to get off jetty nine, they were willing to support us. We're not, we're a little higher on their list than just a community project, but getting off jetty nine and onto jetty 10 is a real positive. Unfortunately, in this case, our automated tests were testing a particular aspect of Web sockets, but weren't testing in a production like environment. We discovered that there was this test gap, Jesse Glick and Basel Crow have been working together to close that test gap, and to get ready to do the upgrade we hope that by 2.359 next week will be on jetty 10, but if not a week or two later. And so nice benefit and getting us on to more modern version of a very important core library. And this is the burden on the maintainers of the jetty library so that they don't have to worry about Jenkins continuing to use just jetty nine. Thank you. And is there anything else that we should know about the Java 11 language extensions. Yeah, in this. Well and this one may impact us in ways that that are documentation related. What Basel's discovered is a leading Jenkins user Steve Hill has implemented a thing with a tool called open rewrite. Open rewrite is an automation system that will do apply code refactorings. And the reason this matters to documentation is we've got a pending pull request for a tutorial on how to modernize a Jenkins plugin. And this user Steve created an open rewrite rule to express one of those modernization steps through automation. And it doesn't do automated evaluation of the quality of the of the change but it does perform the change. And so it gives the user the contributor a jumpstart on Oh, I ran this open rewrite rule, and it performed these code transformations for me now I should focus on testing to be sure it works to be sure it's well behaved. And then I submit a pull request. So it's it's taken away or it's read has the potential to reduce the complexity of some of these modernization steps by letting a machine do it for us. That's pretty awesome. Definitely sounds like it can be very useful for us. If we can get that kind of standardized or something. Well, and, and Steve Hill has done some other cool things around Jenkins automation and in for automation so yes very grateful to him for his work. Fantastic. Thank you, Mark. So just a couple days ago, or within the last week, Gavin mogen, who's part of the Jenkins government's board had made a suggestion about revamping and creating a new commercial support page for vendors vendor support page. We're hoping to make sure that if we're going to have a page like this for support that it's up to date offers something that the user can filter through navigate a bit more cleanly. And more importantly, things like direct links to the support. And what the users are looking for understanding what the makeup of the user base is who's looking for help what they're looking for help with, and is looking for just general feedback on anything else that might be worth tracking. As you can see there's already been a few suggestions and comments about the direction that we can take as far as the support page goes, and Gavin's really receptive to any ideas so by all means feel free to share. If you have any questions, any experiences, anything that might be worth noting that hasn't been put down already, even if it is that's fine. But this is something that's really, it's going to be nice to have after the stories dot Jenkins that I have pages finish up. And would go a long way in helping just reassure and reaffirm a lot of the Jenkins resources and functionalities with those external partners. This is, like I said, this is just something that we've just started working on and I've been working with I've been chance to get some of the Gavin as well. So yeah, that's something that's where we have to look forward to in the future. And then the other item that came up this week is a PR that I've been submitted request, looking for some changes to the navigation and some other parts of the actual Jenkins pages. So the preview site. So this is the background that is set up in the preview the fonts change there are some other items. However, there's been some other recent changes to the system fonts for instance with Jenkins, and with wake things are currently going in the world and with Jenkins. So make sure that everything's on point and aligned for messaging for branding, everything else. So mark, and some others have commented on the post and shared their insights and recommendations suggestions for what can be done. There's definitely some merit to talking about this and discussing the image usage and just overall branding color scheme, etc. So this is another thing that any feedback any suggestions that can be shared will be much appreciated. And we'll go a long way in helping to determine what sorts of improvements we can make in the future, or sooner than later, if there's something that we can agree on now. Mark, I did get a chance to look through these a little bit. Is there anything that you wanted to point out or make note of on these in any specifics or I'm just looking for community feedback. I am. I am notoriously bad at assessing quality of design, and others may feel similarly inadequate. So those who are good in design like you've been a connection who is whose comments are later on. He's very, very good at design and he's very so I give great weight to, to his opinions, and, and his observations. Likewise, Tim Jacome and Jan Farachik are also very, very good in this kind of thing, whereas I'm really bad. So I am unwilling to merge it without getting feedback from other people encourage other people to give their feedback. That's fair. I'm not so great with design either so I feel you're entirely on that. Thank you very much Mark. So that covers the agenda that we have written down for today. Did anyone have any other points topics or items that they'd like to add to or bring up. Yeah, as a side note, the community brown bag was earlier today and was a really lovely experience Bruno actually gave a wonderful talk about the coffee papers and how to really enhance your abilities and chances with how you can Yeah, of course I thought it was really nice and I think that that's a lovely resource for anyone to have so Mark I think that's going to be available somewhere for I don't know because that that was Cloudby's internal Kevin. But it was an excellent presentation where you should want to. And I think I think we may consider that Bruno is having to do it publicly because I think it's a great, a great concept and how to get accepted at talks is a good idea. Yeah, and I think I also just appreciated a lot of the kind of the self affirmations that you're sharing and how to take care of yourself when you're also trying to share all your excitement and knowledge with everyone else so it was really nice. Thank you. I think that covers everything for today, and we made it to the agenda. I think that we could stop the video recording.


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and welcome back to the second episode in my WW BBQ grilling series. What is more BBQ grill related than burgers.  We're going to pair that with some Delicata squash and I'm going to be showing you the recipe for the copycat KFC coleslaw. My husband loved, loved the burgers and the coleslaw. So if you want to see what I have in store for you for the second episode of my WW BBQ series all you have to do, keep watching. So for tonight's BBQ dinner we are going to be making some burgers. We're also going to be making some coleslaw and we're going to roast up some Delicata squash. So first let me show you what is in our burgers. So you're going to need a pound of extra lean ground beef. So this is 96-4.   These are the one smart point hamburger buns. They are so good. My favorite way to eat these is actually to grill them on the barbecue. So what I'll do is spray them with a little bit of I can't believe it's not butter spray and I'll toss this on the barbecue for the last few minutes. These burgers again are only one smart point. They are gluten free. They have zero carbs and non GMO. Let me show you what the actual bun looks like. So they are a full size hamburger bun and again, they are only one smart point. You can get these buns on smart baking co.com. If you use the screen here on the screen or the discount code here on the screen, you can save yourself 10%. So that is super exciting. So the best price is on their website directly and that is the smart baking co website. Use my discount code save 10%. This is also the same company that has the smart cakes. So while you're placing an order, you can add a few smart cakes to your order as well. And all of the discount information and the link is down in the description box below. So next with dinner, we're going to be having some coleslaw. So I have some duplicate ingredients that we're going to need for the coleslaw as well as the hamburger. So of course, you're going to need some coleslaw. If you get the kind without carrots, you're going to need some carrots as well. You're either going to need some fresh chopped up onion or some minced onion. We also need some sugar, which I have set aside for the burger. You're going to need some ground white pepper, some salt and regular pepper also, which is set aside for the burger. I'm going to be using that free half and half in place of the whole milk that the recipe calls for. You're also going to need some light mayo and you're going to need some lemon juice and that is it. So this is what we have in the KFC copycat coleslaw recipe. And then I'll get the delicata squash ready and show you that as well. So this is what we're grilling tonight. Here is the delicata squash that I'm going to be using. This is directly from Trader Joe's. It is already cut up, ready to go. Delicata squash is a winter or fall item, so you can't usually buy it past that time of year. But Trader Joe has it here raw and I believe they also sell it frozen.  So we're going to put some of this together for dinner as well. So to get started on our hamburgers, I've went ahead and added my one pound of extra lean ground beef to my bowl. To that, I am going to be adding in all of the rest of my ingredients. This is what is going to season our meat. So I didn't show you which was my mistake, but you are going to need a quarter cup of ketchup. What I used is the reduced sugar ketchup. I am calculating my points based on that. So if you use regular sugar, make sure that you calculate the points according to that. You are also going to need two tablespoons of steak sauce. So there is that. This is just a one. You can use any steak sauce to your liking. And then we also need one teaspoon of sugar.  And then we also need one teaspoon of vinegar. So this is just distilled white vinegar. And then for liquid, the last thing that we're going to be adding is just one tablespoon of water. For our spices, we have garlic powder. Now I do not measure my spices, so I'm just going to go ahead and add them in here to my bowl. I'm also going to add some salt. And I'm also going to go ahead and add some black pepper. So then you're going to give this a nice mix with your spoon. Get that all nice and incorporated into the meat. And then we will measure out four equal sized patties. We want each patty to be four ounces, which is of the Trader Joe's hamburger only two smart points before the ingredients here that we've added to our meat. So give that a nice stir and then we'll get ready to break this into four equal patties.  And then we are going to split this into two sections and then split that two sections into an additional two sections. And that should give us just about the right size for our hamburger patties. You also can weigh these out on a food scale to make sure that they are four ounces, which is what I will do before we pop them onto the barbecue. Make sure that they are all evenly sized. So then you're going to put those onto a plate and we're ready to get these on the grill. Next up we're going to go ahead and get our delicata squash in some foil and also ready to go on to our grill. But these hamburgers smell really good. They smell nice and flavorful with all those fun ingredients that we added. Next we're going to get our delicata squash ready to go on to the barbecue. So here I have my entire bag. We're going to cook this in a foil packet.  And again, remember you do eat the rind. So literally it is ready to go out of the Trader Joe's bag. I do want to try to get it spread out pretty evenly so that all of the pieces have the opportunity to cook. To that I'm going to go ahead and add my favorite spice for veggies. And this is the Dax Citrus Grove. This is so good.  None of Dax spices have salt. So it's great if you're watching your sodium intake. Their spices are delicious. I do have a link and a 10% discount code down in the description box. So if you're looking for some really good all real ingredient, no salt added spices, Dax is the way to go. So I'm just going to liberally sprinkle that because it is zero points, zero calories, on to my delicata squash. And then I'm just going to add a little bit of salt and a little bit of pepper. And our delicata squash will be ready to go. So for a foil pack, you have one sheet on the bottom, one sheet on the top.  And this is really the best way to cook any veggie on the grill. Just roll up your edges nice and tight to basically create a pocket or a sleeve for your vegetables. And when you do this, it makes them really, really easy to flip over when you're ready to flip them onto the other side for cooking. You just simply flip over your foil pack. So this is ready to go. And then next up, while our burgers and delicata squash is cooking, we're going to get our coleslaw put together. So to get started on your coleslaw, the first thing you're going to do is take your bag of coleslaw and your carrots, if you ended up shredding carrots separately, and add that to a nice big bowl. And then you're also going to add your onion to your bowl as well. The recipe calls for about two tablespoons. So I'm going to do two tablespoons of minced. We're going to set this aside, and then we're going to put together the rest of our ingredients. Next, we're going to make our mix for our coleslaw. So we are just going to dump everything into one bowl, whisk it together, and we'll add it to the coleslaw. So first I have one-third cup of stevia in the raw. I did decide to go ahead and use that only because it was one-third cup, which is quite a lot of points of regular sugar. And I don't think that you're even going to notice a difference. To that, I am going to go ahead and add about the equivalent of half of a teaspoon of salt to my sugar. I love the pink Himalayan's salt. It's my favorite. We're also going to be adding one-eighth of a teaspoon of white pepper. Now, if you don't have white pepper, you can substitute regular white pepper, but white pepper just really has a really good, strong, delicious pepper flavor. I'm also going to add one-quarter of a cup of fat-free half-and-half, and that is in place of the whole milk that the recipe calls for. I also have one-half of a cup of light mayo. So I'm going to go ahead and add that. And then next, we have one-quarter of a cup of light buttermilk. And then I have two tablespoons of white vinegar and three tablespoons of lemon juice. And that is everything. We are going to give this a nice whisk together. And then we will add it into our coleslaw mix. Now, with this coleslaw, the longer it sits in the refrigerator, the better. Only because those flavors really get absorbed into the coleslaw. I didn't have time to let it sit for hours because I just got home from work. And we are getting ready to barbecue dinner. So in the event that you can, I would recommend maybe letting this coleslaw sit a little bit longer in the fridge to really get all those flavors absorbed. So to put our coleslaw together, we're going to go ahead and give our coleslaw and our minced onion just a quick stir just to give it a nice mix. Make sure those onions get nice and mixed throughout the coleslaw. And then we are going to add in our coleslaw mix. And then, of course, we'll give that a nice big stir. Make sure that all of that cabbage gets covered with the coleslaw mix. And then we are going to put this into the refrigerator. It'll probably be at least a half of an hour. Again, the longer it can be in the refrigerator, the better, the more flavorful that it will be. So my guess is tomorrow or the next day, your coleslaw is going to be even better. But I'm going to put some saran wrap on this. I'll get this into the refrigerator. And then this is our coleslaw that we'll be having with our burgers and our delicata squash. Our burgers are cooking on the grill. Someone didn't spray the grill. So they're starting to fall apart a little bit. But they all taste the same. Doesn't matter. And then there's our delicata squash on top. And we'll flip that over and get that nice and cooked. But these burgers look delish. So we just pulled the delicata squash off of the grill. I'm going to go ahead and get the hamburgers put together. Load up the plate with the burger, the squash, and the coleslaw. I'll show you the completed dinner and give you the smart points. So here's the completed barbecue dinner. So here I have my four ounces raw. So about two and a half to three ounces cooked of the 96 for lean ground beef. By adding those other ingredients, it did not change the smart points. So that is a total of two smart points for the hamburger patty. I have one slice of the Yarlsburg light reduced fat Swiss cheese. This cheese for an entire slice is only one smart point. And then on my bun, I went ahead and added just a little bit of the no sugar added ketchup for zero. And my bun, of course, is the one smart point smart bun. So my hamburger is a total of two for the burger, one for the cheese, one for the bun. So that is an entire cheeseburger for four smart points. Over here, I have my delicata squash for zero and one sixth of the KFC copycat coleslaw is only two smart points, two smart points for coleslaw. So this entire barbecue dinner is only six smart points. Thank you for joining me on another episode of the WW barbecue grilling summer series. I hope that you enjoyed seeing tonight's dinner. The hamburgers were delicious, the delicata squash and of course the coleslaw. Who doesn't love coleslaw, veggies and burgers? So if you're new to my channel, make sure that you subscribe, hit that little notification bell. That way you're notified each and every time I upload a new video. I'd love it if you'd give this one a thumbs up, comment down below, let me know what you think of this series and if you're going to try out tonight's recipe. And of course, I'll see you all in my next video. Bye guys.


I'm assessing, right? The first thing I felt to do was grab my elbow. I've got to have a system. Here's the thing. In the system, there's not that many options. There's not that many ways to block someone. You just have to choose the right block at the right time. And you've got to block faster than you're getting blocked. There's not that many. Why are some of the best in the world at what they could do if they're doing a few things over and over and over again? At a tempo, your opponent can't keep up with you. Make sense?  It's at such a high pace that eventually they lose their opponent. You can't keep up with them. Alright, so here's an option for you. If you've seen it great, drags are critical. If you've got somebody that is over-tying you, it's hard to get to a high pace. So much. I've got the rest, but it's over-tying. They play at this game.  You're playing defensive game and waiting for you to attack, but they can feel you coming. If I go around, they can feel me. They'll sidestep me and counter attack me. He'll make me look slow because he can feel it. Alright, so here we go. Watch. Simple hand fighting skill. Drop the arm over. Look, just drop it off. Drop it and the hand is on the wrist. Crap, it's going to be hard to get to him here. I've got this wall here. Just drop, pull him down and across. The hand that was inside goes right here. It goes right to the hamstring. Here I am. Look. Fake, drop, drag. Right where it belongs. Where the shoulder goes. Right where it belongs. Every single time. Questions? See it again? Okay. If you want, you can fake. Fake. Snyder got this on San Jalaya. He had an underhook, same thing though. The guy was supposed to win the World Championships. He got it on Barnard to make the U.S. Olympic team. It works. Barnard was the winning Olympic champion. It works. They're so afraid of you attacking them, they pose and they start leaving them. When they're leaving, just drag it. Take a little step to the outside. See, a little step. A little drag. Listen, you may drag him so hard, right, that he goes down. Grab the hip, watch, put it around the waist. Right to the hip. You may drag him so hard, he'll go down. If he pulls back, you've got to go get the legs. So what am I doing? I'm assessing. Is he coming down, or I can scoot behind, or do I feel him pulling up? My mind's engaged. One, two, three.


We are now releasing the land model document and indicators for a public review. We expect to have an open consultation stage for everything model of the global data barometer. We think that having the opinion, expertise and knowledge of the global community is very important to make our indicators better and also to make these indicators and the results of our survey. It is much more useful for the global community that makes research on data. Because all the data, all the services that we are going to gather and collect all around the world is going to be available for all of you. We invite you to read at the document to look at the indicators and to comment on them and express some ways in which these indicators could be improved or if our frameworks should take into consideration some articles, some theories that we haven't. All these comments are really, really welcome because we want to do this survey open and useful for everyone and we want to be accurate with what we are measuring.


Team keep it clean. Oh, it feels good to say that again. I feel like I ain't seen y'all under such a long time But what's going on saying gravy here with another video and in this video? Raven schedule is looking spicy spicy But I know like when you think about it no matter how the schedule looked we were all gonna get hyped over We were all gonna get excited about it No matter what game was where when we played this team that team night game 1 p.m. Game 4 p.m Overseas game Remember the last time how that went but no matter how the schedule looked we were gonna get excited over it because It's official now even though some to keep in mind These games are subject to change because you know with flex scheduling and all that and then especially with the last game Of the season y'all know how that goes already, but anyway, let's look at this schedule together I know y'all looked at it on Thursday and whatnot But let's take a look at it together team keep it clean style. So week one We starting off with the Texans Texans 1 p.m. Game week one where we get to go against a young rookie quarterback and If I think Chris Moore is still there too. So a little Ravens revenge game possibly now I expect Ravens to take care of business But you know Chris Moore gonna be if he's still with the Texans he gonna be given in his old But shout out to Tankdale cuz I know a lot of Ravens fans wanted him to but he's right there with the Texans then week two a Week two it's like a they get it started right away, man with them bingles And you know bingles like they are going to present a challenge every single time the Baltimore Ravens play them now This week to game There should be like especially would it be an early in the season? Ravens should be and hopefully both teams are hopefully every team in the league is but Raven should be pretty full go bingles should be pretty full go But this like this game This is going to be the battle of all the trash talking because as y'all know y'all see it all the time the trash talk Especially on Twitter between bingles and Ravens fans. Oh, I stay out of it. I just watch it from afar I watch it from a distance and whatnot. I'll be laughing at this stuff.  I'm tripping. I'm tripping. That's week four. See I'm looking at it the wrong way Week three is the Colts. So excuse me. Sorry Browns. We'll talk about y'all next but week three is the Colts at the crib So again another young quarterback Because they're gonna be going possibly most likely against Anthony Richardson. I mean You ain't taking somebody that high overall the number four overall. I think and gonna be sitting on the bench I don't think so, but you never know, but you probably know it probably be playing So that should be fun, man, and that'll be at the crib then the following week Then you play against the Cleveland Browns because again, it just it was just a blank helmet I'm like, man, who is that? But yeah, it's Cleveland But you play Cleveland in Cleveland Cleveland already gave the Ravens trouble there I mean, this is the vision game. So these are guys that you play at least two times per year Obviously the bingles last year you played them three times But the vision games you played him at least twice a year so they know you and now They already had Miles Garrett. He loved giving Ravens trouble. Now. They got a Zadaria Smith, too That was a Darius, but just doing a world tour huh started with the Ravens Went to the Packers went to the Vikings. Look like he was going to the Ravens But now he and Cleveland so that that should make that match up that much more special And then they stay on the road they head to Pittsburgh and with Pittsburgh I mean, you don't even know what to expect from Pittsburgh Because they they got Alan Robinson. I feel like he's sort of a chase Claypool replacement They got nausea hairs. Can he pick it? It's been up and down. I still just feel like he's trying to find himself in the league But yeah, it's still Pittsburgh though It's Pittsburgh when they play against the Baltimore Ravens ill well coach team They they do what they got to do they bring it they bring it that's why When the last time we saw a sweep from either side, I don't even remember y'all correct me on I don't remember when it's been feel like it's been a while, but I could be right, but I remember but anyway You know Pittsburgh gonna bring it per usual another division game then week six Well, we fly overseas now Ravens We know what London game was coming eventually We knew what's gonna happen eventually because it had been a long time It had been a really long time since the Ravens got dog walked Annihilated slapped in the face since they got punched in the mouth and didn't get up against the Jaguars back whenever that was years ago But Ravens hadn't been over there since so we knew it was coming eventually Because you can't escape from these London games if they ain't get you yet They gonna get you soon enough But I'm happy for all the fans over there because they're gonna get to get an experience that especially all the Ravens fans They're gonna get to see that team up close and personal that like that's different man It's different. So that game will be bright and early for us on the East Coast It'll be at 9 30 a.m. For those on the West Coast. It'll be at 6 30 in the morning so But yeah, they're going up against the Titans over there. So that should be fun I seen a lot of Ravens fans really scared really scared about that game and I think more so is the PTSD From the Jaguars just beating the Ravens down and with that Jaguars game It was like one of them games where you just felt like all right Jaguars it they got to early lead. Okay, cool Okay, then Lee got extended. Okay cool Ravens going through. Oh, the Jaguars League got extended again Okay, Raven good and it just kept getting worse kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse It was so bad as y'all remember But yeah, that should be fun. Then they come back to the crib and they play the Detroit Lions They played Alliance. So Matthews staff. No Jared golf. I got him mixed up with his old team Jared golf And I think they signed somebody else in QB too But I don't know they drafted Hinden Hooker But this sort of a red shirt year for him as he recovers from his injury So in Lions games as we remember they always keep it interesting. We remember the kick remember that kick in week three The DJ Justin Tucker the historic anyway Then the Cardinals. Oh Oh, and it's in Arizona too. That should be a fun one that game is week eight week eight, um, I Expect and I know it's still super early But I expect that to be one of the Ravens pettiest games of the year and I expect them to just try to go all out with scoring. I expect them to try to run it up I expect Lamar to throw for like five six touchdowns that game and maybe run for one or two I just expect them to go crazy reason being I didn't see many of the previews I ain't have good reception But I see many of the the schedule previews from the teams, you know how a lot of them put together those super creative videos. I Didn't see many but I did see what the Cardinals put for this game and they called Lamar running back Yeah, oh, yeah Because the thing with Lamar ain't gonna say nothing Ain't gonna publicly acknowledge it or whatever I'm sure it's gonna come up in in in a in a press or something before the game What are they gonna say? Oh, no, I ain't worried about that but he sees all of that stuff and Sure, he'd be a little extra motivated With that game it should be something special then didn't Hollywood This would be the Hollywood vs. Ravens like a real game this time because they played each other in a preseason last year But that's a preseason. So anyway That should be a good one then you stay in the NFC West the following week at the crib and you play the Seahawks So Seahawks going against Geno Smith So we get to see Geno Smith vs. Geno Stone two names I always get mixed up my apologies But the Raven secondary DK Metcalf DK Metcalf Tyler Lockett and The receiver that so many Ravens fans wanted oh Oh Is it a jit nijikba, I think that's him but anyway So that should be another fun. I mean the whole season is gonna be fun. It's football season, of course It's fun Then we play the Cleveland Browns again Another 1 p.m. Game then week 11 And you know they had to do this man. They had to do this week 11 against the Bengals at the crib It's Sunday night football It's a night football 8 15 p.m. That week. Oh, excuse me Thursday night football. See man I'm all over the place right now, but it's Thursday night football. Sorry that the print is like really really small right here, but anyway This is Thursday night football against the Bengals prime time. So that that should be good as it always is Then the following week Well, actually 10 days later because yeah, you get that 10 day break 10 day break They play the Chargers now that's Sunday night football against the Chargers So two prime time games in a row one Thursday night then 10 days later. It's on Sunday night So you get a nice long break now that is an away game, but still hopefully to go like that last time they play the Chargers in LA and That was a beautiful game That's what mark Andrews broke for that long when I know that was before the playoff game But the playoff game was in Baltimore. But anyway, hopefully that goes like that Then week 13 is the bye week. Usually they had a bye week Usually they had they have it around the early November because I'm so used to when it's me and my wife's anniversary I wouldn't anniversary that's you because our wedding anniversary is November 3rd That's usually when they always had a bye week around them, but this year things are different. So that's cool Then week 14 they played a Rams at the crib. Oh Could be a little petty game Odell Beckham, Jr. Get a little extra motivation gonna get his old squad or what now, but yeah Jalen Ramsey ain't there no mortal But the Ravens will still see Jalen Ramsey later on then week 15 in Jacksonville Sunday night football against the Jaguars That should be a really good them them Jaguars a like even the game last year against the Jaguars was great I mean we hated the ending at least we did. I know Jaguars fans. They loved it But the game was a great game It was one Ravens little slip away, but it was it was still a great game nonetheless So I expect to be even better this year. Hopefully with the right outcome though. So we'll see then week 16 On December 25th money night football They play the San Francisco 49ers and you know they they always gonna present a tough task to these Baltimore Ravens Because they just been one of the better coach teams in the league over the past couple years for a while Actually, but certainly over the past couple years NFC championship at the NFC championship and whatnot now last year they were in it But then they start dealing with super injured and they they just couldn't overcome all the injuries that they had it was just It was a wrap man. You can only do so much when you face with injuries. Hey, he was Ravens fans. We know better than anybody But that should be a fun one. I remember last time the the Ravens played the 49ers on a holiday game I was actually there when they played the The 49ers on a Thanksgiving game it was a year that Terrell Suggs won defensive player the year So and that was a defensive game. Anyway moving on One of my favorite games of the season always every year Ravens playing the Miami Dolphins I wish the game was down here, but that's okay. That's okay. And this is the last game of the calendar year not this football year But the calendar year because it's on December 31st and that game is a home game for the Ravens I mean, even if they were to came down here, you know, the Florida Raven now, you guys a flower So anyway, that game is a M&T Bank Stadium against the Miami Dolphins now right now say one o'clock Yeah, depending on how things are with both teams it could change and I think week 12 week 12 is the week So right before the Ravens have a buy a week But week 12 they got Sunday night football against the charges So any of the games starting that week 12 can be changed any of them So I would expect that Ravens That Ravens charges game to remain but after that the Rams the Jaguar Jaguar probably gonna stay But the 49ers doesn't probably gonna stay too But any those games could change but Ray Ravens got some pretty good slots after the buy week both before and after Especially with prime time and whatnot, but they could add another one. We'll see So week 17 is against the Miami Dolphins and then week 18 is against the Steelers to close out the season And it's usually against that that's how the NFL does they make the last game of the season There's always a division game Always a division game So I would expect the Bengals I haven't looked at any other schedules But I expect the Bengals to go against the Browns that game And just all it's all division games. So that's that's how that is. So yeah, that is The season that is the schedule. Um, I guess, you know what I guess we do a little record prediction, whatever If healthy if healthy, um, I Know when when talking to my guy night show, I said a 15 and two of healthy if they got another corner They got another corner now. Um, if healthy I Gotta I gotta add in another loss because I know these Ravens like again There's always like two to three games where it's like, oh, what was that and and a shout out to other teams, too Because Ravens ain't only team that showed the place the other team, too So they're gonna be some games where other teams is better than the Ravens that day You know, something just happens where the ball bounces a certain way. Y'all know how it goes So I while I would love perfection from these Baltimore Ravens I don't expect perfection from these Baltimore Ravens because they are not perfect. They make mistakes They're gonna make hiccups. They're gonna have bumps in the road. It happens. So um, I Mean not even really based on the schedule anything but my little record prediction for these Baltimore Ravens for the 2023 football season with 17 games. I am going to go with a high of I feel like a high I'm debating on a high between 14 and 3 and 15 and 2. That's a high though a high a Low and all this is dependent on health But a low If this team is healthy I think a very very low low for them will be 12 and 5. I actually think a low for them. Healthy is 13 and 4 I really do. I think it's 13 and 4. Um reasons again health Health is huge. If you have Lamar Jackson, you got a chance in any single game And these Ravens like even before Lamar Jackson, too Uh with with John Harbaugh Um, even if a team their team is decimated One thing that he he does he does well is keep the Ravens in again now. He don't always win the games But he keeps the Ravens in the games um, the Ravens are a team that They don't get blown out too often. It just does not happen even with injuries and stuff But again with health like I said high 15 to 14 and 3 Low low 12 and 5 but a low I'd say 13 and 4 Um, I think they can do really really well if they're healthy Um, especially on offense with and in this new offense, too Now they take them a little time to get acclimated and adjust on what not to this new offense But once they start rolling, I really think these Ravens could be something special, man I I really do. Um, Odell Beckham jr. Healthy. Odell Beckham jr. Healthy Rashad Bateman, uh, Nuzay Flowers and Mark Andrews can't forget about him likely still there. Um Devin Duvenay still Nelson Aguilar Jk Dobbins healthy Gus Edwards healthy Uh, whatever other running backs end up making a team and a lot of people how I met you We're gonna see the healthy offensive line Ronnie Stanley going to the offseason health so much is about health And I mean you can say that about ENFL team a lot of times It's not even who the best team is left, but who the healthiest team left is So With health That's where I would put these Baltimore Ravens. So I really I really do have high hopes for them this year, um Much more than I did going into Last season because a lot of things are different a lot of things have been changed A lot of things have been adjusted and we'll see What type of impact those changes have on the team But I think there's going to be a lot of positive impact And I'm not just saying this because we in the offseason I'm not just saying this because because I am a Ravens fan I know I'm saying this because I actually really believe the changes that they put in place Will have a huge impact and a huge positive impact an impact for the better for this football team, but Like we always say We'll see we'll see how things go. I love y'all team. Keep it clean. I'm happy to be seeing y'all again And we out


Welcome to this edition of Campus Conversations. My name's Dan Mogulov. I'm from the campus office of communications and public affairs and totally pleased and honored to have Chris Treadway with us today. As usual, a brief introduction. Chris will have a few comments about what she and her office are up to now. Then I have a few questions. And then as we go, if you have questions, write them on the index cards, hold them up in the air and we'll collect them. So Chris Treadway is the assistant vice chancellor for government and community relations here at UC Berkeley. As the assistant chancellor, she is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive integrated government relations strategy that aligns with and supports the overall goals and vision of the campus. In her role, she serves as a political advisor to the chancellor and senior leadership and manages strategic relationships with elected officials, external advocates and the UC regions. Chris has 30 years of experience in working in government and higher education. She started her career in Washington DC working for the House Education Committee and the subcommittee on post-secondary education. She then spent six years working in this role as a congressional staffer before escaping, I mean moving to San Francisco for a job in government relations at San Francisco State University where she served as the executive director of government relations there for 12 years. In 2005, she wisely decided to move across the bay where she'd been living here since 97 and started at Berkeley as the director of state government relations. She then moved into a leadership role as executive director of the office of government and community relations. And in 2007, she became the assistant vice chancellor for government and community relations. And in 2013, finished her empire building in her current role as assistant chancellor. So without further ado, Chris, a few words to set the table and then we'll go from there. Thanks, Dan. Happy to be here. Unlike some of your more famous guests on the show, some of you are probably not as familiar with the work of government and community relations. So I thought I would just talk a little bit about what our office does. We're down to about an elite eight. So we're small but we're mighty, small staff. But we, the overall mission of our office is to demonstrate the value and importance of UC Berkeley in front of elected officials, government agencies, local community, and the general public. So a large part of what we do is building relationships. Of course, the state is still our largest donor despite some recent disinvestment, giving the campus about $300 million every year, 350. And the UC system about $3 billion a year. So they're a very key constituency for us. So we build a lot of relationships with them, educate them on what we do, find out issues of interest to them, and try to match up our experts in order to help their agenda as well. So there's a lot of communications and messaging work that goes along with that. We work closely with the UC system on system-wide strategies. And of course, with our public affairs colleagues, thank you very much for your support guys in telling our story in Sacramento and Washington, DC. We do a lot of political advising to the senior leadership as they're making decisions. Let them know what the political implications might be of those actions. And we deal a lot with public policy. We track legislation, follow issues, and engage our faculty directly with policy makers at the state and federal level. A lot of this work is frequent trips to Sacramento and Washington, DC. In fact, we had our staff, I think, four or five trips to DC just this spring with several deans and faculty members advising congressional folks on artificial intelligence, water policy, ag and CNR issues. So sometimes we have major policy briefings that we hold for staff. If staff are working on some big issue- You mean congressional staff? Congressional staff, legislative staff. And then sometimes it's just, we take faculty to meet one-on-one with legislators and members, and again, sometimes it's to advance our own interest in increased funding for their research or sometimes it's to advise a policy maker if they have a bill they're working on and want more information. And then finally, I would say, we're also kind of a complaint desk or maybe a help desk would be a better way of phrasing that. We get a lot of inquiries from the legislature, from the public, UC, Office of the President. But a lot of times constituents will call their local elected official and want help with an issue. And so they'll bring that to us. So we do a lot of problem solving. You mean the university issue? So like what's an example of that? Examples can be admissions questions or residency questions or financial aid problem or, you know. And so we're fixers. We try to sort of solve and navigate those problems. We work with a lot of our colleagues here to just solve those issues as they come up. And then we, I thought maybe it'd be good to give you a little flavor of kind of the issues at all these levels. So I'll start off with the federal level. We're actively tracking, continue to track immigration, visa issues, DACA, the Congress is starting a reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, which sets the stage for all of the financial aid issues for our students. So working on Pell grants and those kinds of issues. And then we're actively advocating for increased funding for science. The President's budget that was just introduced calls for a lot of major cuts to sciences. I think it's a billion dollars out of NSF, a billion dollars out of Department of Energy's Office of Science, five billion from NIH and seven billion out of Department of Education. So a lot of concerning cuts on the table there. Then at the state level, it's all about the state budget primarily this season. The UC budget, the Governor's budget that got introduced was a good start for UC. I think we're looking forward to working with this Governor, but there are still few outstanding issues we're trying to get the legislature to include additional money for tuition buyout and make that permanent and some enrollment funding. The other major issue with the state is trying to get funding for capital. As you know, we have significant deferred maintenance and seismic needs on our campus. There is a bill that's been introduced for a general obligation bond to go on the 2020 ballot that the legislature is currently considering that provides about eight billion dollars between UC and CSU. So we're really hoping we can get some traction and get that passed this year. And at the local level, here's a lot going on at the local level. I think the really good news here is that the chancellor and the mayor have had a great working relationship. As you know, they're working on a lot of issues of mutual interest, including the housing crisis and homelessness. And so the chancellor's student housing initiative that she announced, where we're trying to double the number of beds in the next 10 years will require a lot of consultation with the community. There's about eight or 10 sites we're looking at to be developed in that process. We also just announced the start of the long range development plan planning process, which will be about a two year effort that will also require a lot of engagement with the community. But we have a ton of relationships with the community, not only in Berkeley, but Oakland, Richmond, Albany. And so our staff work closely with a lot of the educational partnerships that are going on in the city, and we manage the chancellor's community partnership fund, which is about $250,000 a year, basically in grants, 300 in grants that we give out every year. And these are really meant to improve the quality of life for the Berkeley community, citizens of Berkeley. And so we have nonprofits partner with the university on these projects, and they support everything from education projects, arts and culture, community safety, environmental stewardship, things like that. I think we've spent about two million, three million in the last 12 years of this fund. So it's been a great way to interact with the community. And if you want more information about all of these activities we do with the community and our work in general, subscribe to our newsletter. It comes out every week, our fabulous Jen Loy edits that, and it'll give you the full scoop on what we're up to. Got it. So I actually want to start with a personal question. So I think you have politics in your family background. You've been in the political game for a long time, and I know we all have some pretty passionate opinions about the political world now, but what attracted you then, and do you think the game has changed over the years since you first went to work on the Hill? Well, I actually got into politics when I was in Montana. I come from a rural background, moved around a bit because my father was in higher education, but I was living in Eastern Oregon in a town of 12,000 people, and went to college actually in Montana and started as a music major. And from there, I got interested actually in the US-Soviet policy issues that were going on at the time, the arms race, and I spent a year at the University of Maryland studying that US-Soviet relationship, and while I was there, I interned in Washington, DC, and so I met the congresswoman from Montana, and then by the time I graduated, he asked me to come and work for him in Washington, so that was pretty terrific, and while I was working for him, I met his son, who turned out to be my husband, so a long story short there. So we're very involved, yes, and then he served in the congress for 20 years, and then his wife was actually the first Senate majority leader in the state of Montana. She went into politics when he retired and came to Montana, so. So it's in the blood. It's in the blood, it's in the blood. So what do you like about it, and has it all changed? Oh, it's changed a lot. When I first went to Washington, there was a lot of collaboration between Democrats and Republicans. This was in the late 80s, and it was very collegial. While there would be disagreements, staff would usually just get together and over pizza, we would hammer out differences in conference bills and work it out, and so there was a lot more collegiality. You would see the members getting together, even spending time with each other, out to dinner together, arch enemies out to dinner, and then I think it started to shift in 96 with the Republican Revolution and Take Over the House, and it started to get a lot more political, and even committees like mine, which were very much policy-based, where you would just sit down and work out the details of the policy you were trying to do, turned into more political conversations, and so the environment there is extremely heightened politically and divided, so. So how do you think that politicization is impacting, at least in Washington, higher education issues? Have we become a political football, meaning the whole sector? How is that affecting us, do you think? Well, I think there's definitely a tendency towards thinking universities are elite, and that they are sort of a liberal bastion, more and more and more becoming, I think, perceived as elite institutions, and an interesting thing that some of the Pew Center has done some polling between Republicans and Democrats, and how do they feel about higher education, and it's pretty different, and the messaging that universities are using, even around scientific issues, we are starting to use different phrases instead of climate research, you can talk about impact on agriculture or natural resources, or they like the term health research, more in medical research that is really tied directly to people's concerns, and so I think that there is a crisis in the perceived cost of education, the lack of access, and some of the elite mentality. We'll come back to the federal level, I wanna jump over to Sacramento for a second, I know you have to be really diplomatic, but lean in as much as you can. So the last governor was known to have a complicated relationship with the UC, let's say. What's it looking like with the new governor? What are you sensing and hearing from the new administration, and how does it bode for us? Right, well I wanna, seriously, our role is to be nonpartisan, but I will have to say that I personally think that this Governor Jerry Brown was actually very good for the state of California. He came in in a terrible time, I think the state was facing $27 billion deficit, and he came along and really applied this fiscal conservatism to his job, and he was very successful in turning, had a large role, I think, in turning the economy around, and he ended up with projected $15 billion surplus, the rainy day fund, I think is $14 billion, $15 billion now. So he really held people's feet to the fire to be very conservative with the spending, which I think was important, and of course he really left a legacy of climate change, and he really did a lot for the working poor and the quality issues. So I think, generally speaking, he was terrific for California. It's no secret that he had issues with UC, and some of that, I think, really was in his philosophy. He rejected, bristled at the idea of excellence, and it really didn't like- But also with elitism, right? Elitism, exactly, and did not appreciate us always saying we had to compete with Stanford and Harvard, and so he wanted us to just be good enough for California, and so there were some challenges there with him, but I think that overall, it came down to him wanting to be more fiscally conservative, and I will say one of the toughest things for us was probably the holding tuition flat for six years, and that had, I think, a great impact, and maybe more than he fully realized. And Governor Newsom, so what are we hearing? What are you sensing? What's the prognosis? He has a bold agenda. I will say he's done great in hiring a lot of really, really smart, wonderful people in the administration, and he's charting a really, really impressive course for the future with expanding healthcare and universal preschool and wanting to have more access for early childhood education, the housing crisis and homelessness he wants to tackle, so those are big price tag items. I think he even wants to have two years of free community college, so he's putting a lot of bold ideas out there and we'll just have to see if the state coffers can handle that. I don't know, I'm just getting word that the revenues from taxes aren't quite up to par yet, but we're hoping in the next week or so that that will get raised, so. But we're hopeful, we're excited. So even as we're talking, a few questions came in directly related to this and I think what people really wanna know, and I'm gonna push you on here a little bit. So when I talked about prognosis, not to beat around the bush, talking about the possibility of a return to the good old days or at least a step back towards a different sort of partnership and financial support for the UC, how do you think that might play out in what do our current efforts look like to support advocacy to increase funding? Oh well, I'm very hopeful actually because I think that again, the Governor Newsom really, I think understands and appreciates the research mission of UC and I think he can understand the differences between what UC does and the role of CSU for example. So I know he has a lot of interest in several research areas of the university. I think he understands the economic impact that the UC has on the state, which is extremely impressive and significant. So and I feel like the relationships in Sacramento are getting better, campuses are spending a lot of time up there with alumni and students, lots of advocacy efforts have been underway. So I'm pretty hopeful that we're gonna get to a place where we can have a more increased funding for UC. I think there's gonna have to be a deal with the legislature and the Governor's office clearly about issues of affordability and access and there are a lot of concerns about the large numbers of non-resident students that have been coming in recent years, which was in a direct response to the budget cuts. So, but I think that there will be some progress made on this, at least I'm hopeful. So maybe you could unpack something for us. I mean, something I've always wondered about. Whole number of studies show that states get back anywhere to $4 to $7 for every dollar they put into higher ed, which makes it seem like a no-brainer. Why has, why is increased funding for higher education, whether the UCs and or the CSUs, why is that not a no-brainer in Sacramento? Why is that something that's been tough to achieve in recent years given the substantiated benefits of investments in higher education? It's a great question. We ask our legislators this often and if you poll most Californians, they put education at the top of the list for their priorities. I think in California, you know, the budget, the discretionary budget is quite constrained. And so there are a lot of competing interests.  Prison funding competes with the UCs, unfortunately. And so there's a pretty small piece of the pie that the discretionary money can support. And I think that for a long time, as the budget, we were in the heat of budget crises, the legislature felt like the universities have the ability to raise taxes unlike what they could do on Californians through increased tuition, through philanthropy, through bringing in more non-residents than that. And that helped us for a while and that was other sources of funding. But we sort of hit a tipping point, I think, with that and the amount of money that we're charging. Non-resident students has reached an all-time high. So people are starting to say, okay, now maybe we need to shift this balance back a little more. So I think there's a recognition that they do wanna invest in UC and CSU but it's all about access and affordability and that we need to produce something like a million more degrees over the next 10 years in the state. And are there still concerns in Sacramento about the extent to which the UC as a whole is a good steward of the resources it's provided with? I mean, shortly after you and I started here on campus there was the whole, what's called the compensation scandal. Is that a gift that keeps on giving or taking, I should say? Like in the private moments that when legislators lean over the table and say, Chris, I'd love to support you, but. Yeah. What are they ogie about up there? So thankfully, I think the executive compensation issue is not as hot a topic these days, at least with most of the members we talked to. I think that issue was problematic, but I think for the most part people understand that the university has a lot of sources of funding and we need to attract the best and brightest in order to make new inventions and new discoveries in healthcare and how much we give back to the economy in that respect. The main issue is really about the concerns over non-residents at the moment. And I feel like the trust in UC is getting better. I mean, we're pretty transparent. Everything's up on the web. It's open information. We're a public institution. We have many, many, many public records requests for information. So I think the legislators are willing to make the investment. It's just, it's a matter of competing resources for the most part. So don't take this the wrong way, but why do we have a state relations office? Do we have, does Berkeley have separate business from the rest of the UC? When we go there, are we advocating for Berkeley specific things? In other words, why is it not just the UC system as a whole? What do you guys carve out? Good question. So let me step back for a minute. In the four term limits were enacted. For years, the university system had a very close relationship with legislators. The Willie Brown days and long standing members up there were there for years and years. And so the university had really close ties up there. Once term limits came into effect and there were more and more legislators brand new to the job, we started having several years where a third of the legislature would be brand new people and turning over. So it was a much greater need to start educating those folks. And that was really where we started to see some of the growth in government relations offices where there was a need for more people to be interacting with them. So campuses in the UC have always tended to have some kind of government relations presence. And it really is about advancing the interests of the UC when we go up there on budget issues. It's we speak with one voice because there is one line item to the university. But we tell them what the impact is for our campus. And we have lots of researchers again who have projects they're doing with state agencies or they may be expert in an issue that will help legislators. And so we give them access to that. So another question came in and it's something you and I have talked about. Also, what opportunities and do staff, faculty have talked about a little bit and students have. I mean, do you bring staff and students up to Sacramento? Does that make a difference? Is this something where broader engagement helps our cause? Talk to us a little bit about explain what we do and how that all works. Yeah, so our advocacy efforts have sort of ebbed and flowed throughout the years, depending on the issue, I would say when we were facing the billion dollars in budget cuts. We What do you mean the system as a whole? The system had, yeah, billion as a whole. I mean, Berkeley, our funding was cut in half. Essentially, I think we were about 500 million went down to about 250. So we had a very aggressive advocacy effort in those days where we did involve a lot of external alumni, but also staff and students in lobbying or advocating on our behalf. We tend to be pretty directed because we're a small office. We try to be targeted in our efforts so that we can approach the right people with the right message at the right time rather than bombard people. In the old days, you kind of used to send in postcards and you'd get 10,000 postcards sent to a legislator on an issue. And honestly, I think these members are much more sophisticated now about how they interact with their constituents. And so bringing the people in that can answer their questions, I think builds the best relationships for them. But we obviously always welcome people to go to their local district offices and know their legislators and let them know that you support you see. And it's a pretty broad message. I think everyone always says to me, what should our messages be? What is UC really trying to do? And at the end of the day, it's tell your story. Tell them why you care about UC and why it should be supported because that resonates the most with them. So I'm just wondering, sometimes I hear from alumni and others and say, you guys only get 12% of your budget from the state. It's not just go private or, I mean, oh, it's crazy, but is it worth it? What's your response to people who say, look, we put up with so much, they would say. And we only get 12%. What's the pushback? What's the response to that? Well, first of all, we're a public institution that was founded by the public. And so we're a state entity. So our buildings are state owned and we're state employees. And so even though we may not get a majority of our funding from the state, that we have a public interest. So I think becoming private would be a real challenge because there's a lot of investment here that they ask assets that they own. So that would be a trick. But I know I think there's frustration sometime with the amount of oversight and overreach. We really are governed by the UC regions and they have constitutional autonomy, but because of the relationship to the budget, we try to be as responsive as we can to the legislature. The autonomy is really set up to prevent political persuasion on the university and so that way they could preserve academic freedom. And so for the most part, all of that I think is still intact. But if the legislature is giving us $300 million a year, I would think they can tell us kind of what they want us to do with it. That would seem to me. Generally speaking. That would seem to buy some influence. In terms of the agenda, another question came in and that has to do with whether the campus is advocating in the capital for money for student housing or for new development. And this is something we hear a lot about that we don't have debt capacity or the state's not in the game anymore in terms of providing funds for capital projects. Is that part of our agenda? And what's that situation in terms of not so much the operating budget, but access to capital for construction. Right, so that's another very fascinating question. The state used to fund, they now are providing only about a 10th of the capital they used to fund for the university. We have not had a general obligation bond since 2006 on the ballot. And general obligation bonds were used to finance construction. To finance construction for new buildings. Because of the campus's recent budget difficulties with our structural budget deficit, we did not have very much access to capital to issue our own debt. But because we've now balanced our books there is some indication from office of the president that we will maybe be able to use some of our funding for particularly student housing. We've been exploring a public-private partnership models to also build housing and provide other needs on the campus. So the capital funding we really need to try to get through a general obligation bond because the state just doesn't have the resources to support that anymore. Do you think any chance of that may change in the future? Here too, like a return to the good old days in that sense? I doubt it for capital. I mean, I think the governors proposed $138 million just for deferred maintenance to just help us keep pace with the existing buildings and the upkeep. And of course Berkeley has a very significant deferred maintenance and seismic issues on our campus. So we have a lot of need there. But so without a general obligation bond I don't see that there's just not that much one-time money available to be able to address that. So a couple more questions about Sacramento that will move into the town gown and maybe if we're feeling really brave talk a little bit more about Washington. I'm just curious, you take the chancellor to Sacramento on a regular basis and I think those of us who've heard her speak know that she has pretty extraordinary communication skills. Does that make a difference? Has her engagement, do you think, had any impact on the way our campus is seen and the extent to which we're meeting some of our objectives up there? Absolutely. Chancellor Christ has been amazing in all of her political engagement and she really did make it a priority to be engaged locally and to be engaged with state legislature. She hasn't done as much engagement federally but she really wanted to focus on trying to get increased funding from the state and it's definitely noticed. Their chancellors have been going to Sacramento I think more frequently but we get a lot of response from staff and from legislators telling us how much they appreciate having the chancellor's face up there. It demonstrates the commitment of the campus and that she's really spending the time and she spends a lot of time there. So it's paying off and she hosts people here. We have a lot of legislators that come to campus and she's hosted them a number of times. We have had a member here yesterday, Senator, who came to campus. So there's a frequent interaction but it makes a difference. You're gonna see the governor here? I would hope so. Yes, hopefully we will. A lot of his staff have been coming through and so I'm sure that- Well one of them is an alum, right? Joey Freeman is one of his senior legislative staff. Anna Leary is his chief of staff, is also an alum. I mean there's a lot of them so it's great. I think we have at least 150 legislative staff who are alums in the legislature. We have the most members who are alumni, actually with 15 members. So yeah, even more than UCLA or anyone else. All right. Sorry. We're gonna turn to town gown but just to remind if folks have questions now that have come to mind once we started talking, again fill out your cards, hold them up and we'll scoop them up as we go. So let's turn to town gown. A lot of people here as the chancellor was signaling her intentions to develop People's Park just was like, oh my God, she's grabbing the third rail. It's Armageddon, it's gonna be a disaster. And the announcement was made and not that much, I mean some opposition but very different than what people anticipated. What do you think's happening? What does that say about what's happening in town in terms of the town gown relationship, in terms of the relationship with the mayor, sort of kind of weigh in on that whole phenomenon that I think surprised a lot of long-time residents here. Wow, you just went right for it. Yeah, People's Park. I was surprised somewhat also that it's been difficult to get leadership here to wanna take that on. I mean it's a, we've been talking about it for many years and the need to really clean it up because it's not the best use of the space, frankly. And we've had a lot of difficult issues around the park. So I was thrilled when the chancellor said that she thought this was the time to take it on and it really is the urgency of the moment in needing to have more housing and that the city embraced that with us as well. I think one of the biggest reasons why this has been at least so far, people are not protesting in the streets about it, not yet, is that the chancellor really made a strong commitment to address the issue of homelessness. And so she actually hired someone, a social worker to be in the park and partnered with the city on trying to figure out how we can solve this problem together rather than just, okay, we're gonna fence it and on off we go. And so making that commitment to have supportive housing on site for long-term homeless and some kind of a memorial to the park, we won't forget its history. But I think that's been key to why we've had the response thus far. So that's an area where the city and the campus seem to be collaborating effectively. What do you think are some of the existing or perhaps future potential friction points? Because obviously our interests and our objectives are not identical. And I think that's true for every university in every town within which they're situated. So what do you see? What's on the horizon? What are the issues that your office is sort of looking at right now to get ahead of that curve? Yes, great point. I mean, historically, town gown campuses that are located in big cities have this natural tension of what the impact of the campus is on the local community. As many of you may know, we did have a lawsuit with the city the last time we went through our long range development planning process. And so we could have another lawsuit this time. I think the campus has significantly grown in population. But we have done a lot of work to mitigate many of those impacts. So even on the things like the carbon footprint or transportation and parking issues, we've tried very hard and I think have actually have some recent data that shows that our impact is not what we thought it would be, even 15 years ago. So it's less than what we thought initially. And so even though the population has grown, I think that there will be conversations about other impacts that are not recognized as part of the formal CEQA process, which is what we have to comply with. But I think having these conversations with the city now is really what the chancellor has been trying to do and outreach with the mayor's office to understand community's concerns, find areas where we can collaborate and partner and try to address those up front this time. I mean, again, it's a long process. We'll be taking a lot of feedback from the community, but this chancellor's been ready and willing to have those conversations. Let's move into Washington DC for just a little bit. How have things changed in this administration? I don't wanna start a whole political conversation here, but came in with stated intentions to cut federal support for research and I thought there was a lot of concern across the higher education sector. That seems not to have played out as per the administration's initial statements, or maybe it has, or maybe it's just an abeyance. From a higher education and UC Berkeley perspective, what's happened in Washington in the last couple of years? So yes, the president's budget like it has just been announced recently, proposed lots of cuts and the Congress, for the most part, walked those cuts back. Even things like the National Endowment for the Arts was on the chopping block and that got walked back. I think that the reality for us is that we have very strong coalitions that we work with nationally to advocate for things like science and tech policy and financial aid obviously is an issue that we have a lot of folks that will weigh in and advocate heavily for. So the reality of the day to day is that when we hear about things being proposed, we send lots of folks up to make our case and again, work with the National Association to put out our messages and just work those members one at a time. We try to partner with higher education institutions in red states, for example, and go to those members who are on key committees to make our case. And so for the most part, I think, other than this most recent round of pretty significant cuts to the science budgets, we've been okay. I think the Higher Education Act, if they move forward on that reauthorization will be interesting given the dynamic where they're always trying to make some modifications with student aid issues will be something we'll have to really pay attention to. And of course, we hoped the DREAM Act would get enacted and that continues to be something where pretty bipartisan, there was a lot of bipartisan support for that. And so we're hoping that that can continue to be possible. Do you see Congress continuing to be a counterbalance to perhaps some of the administration's desires? Is that gonna? Oh, definitely, yeah. And with the Democrats now in control of the House, that's obviously gonna shift the dynamic here. It's hard to say. It sounds like there are certainly a lot of Democrats who really wanna continue down this sort of investigations path of the president. Some even talking about impeachment, but Nancy Pelosi's been pretty clear about how she doesn't wanna go down that path. So it's hard to see, I would imagine that we're gonna be back to gridlock again on a lot of issues. But there are ways to come together with the Republican leadership to, again, I think advance issues of importance to the country, particularly in scientific innovation that we can come together on those. Yeah, a couple of questions on our related front. So this one is, and I think you answered the first part, does your office engage in lobbying for increased federal funding? But the second part here is how can centers, and I'm assuming research centers and institutes on campus and individuals be involved with that advocacy? And also asking how your office works with the vice chancellor research's office that also engages with Washington. So how can all of us be involved? Is there some role and also how do you integrate in your efforts with other parts of the campus that have a big skin in the federal game? Right, so first of all, technically we don't lobby. We're not registered federal lobbyists, our campus, and there is a slight difference. We advocate on behalf of the campus for increased funding, but our campus does not take a position on a bill or the way traditional lobbying works. So it's very similar, but we call it advocacy. Our office works very closely with the vice chancellor for research on connecting with agencies to increase funding and also to work with faculty who wanna visit the hill, for example. So centers, people who want to advocate for increased funding for their projects, our office works very closely with them. Because we're small, we sort of sit down with folks and talk through what they really need, what the likelihood of success would be for what they're asking for and kind of do a little bit of a political matrix of assessment around what they're asking for. But generally speaking, we're here to help, we're here to help them connect even if we don't have bandwidth to take them ourselves, we can work with actually the office of the UC's federal relations office in DC can often jump in and help to staff people or give them information and help connect them on the hill. So we're here as a resource and frequently do take people around and help them get funding. So another one from the audience here. Can you elaborate on your current policy or advocacy efforts on immigration issues for international students, scholars, or faculty, staff, and also DACA? This person is interested in your or your office's current priorities for these groups. And again, I understand these groups to be dreamers as they're called, international students, scholars and employees around immigration. So that's a big field, but maybe are you involved, is your office involved with this? Is the UC? What are we doing? UC is very involved. It's been at the top of their priority list for some years. Our office is also very involved. Again, we have been educating our legislators about the needs of our DACA students and the importance of our international community and our international students. We work closely with congressional folks often on visa issues. When we have people in our community who are having problems with their visa. So we provide a lot of information. We do advocate for these bills on a regular basis. And so yeah, we're very engaged and it continues to be a top priority of UC overall. The other, another federal question, it's a good one is sort of a question of is it become harder to advocate for just sort of basic research? And they're interested in the language you might use when you argue for basic research. Yes, this is one of the issues that I was alluding to between the Democrats and the Republicans and how they view basic research. The data shows that the Republicans don't respond as well to basic research, but they do respond to medical research or health research. So we take the lead again from Vice Chancellor for Research on what their top priorities are for us. It guides the kind of issues and efforts that we get involved in on that side of things, but yes, the language does matter and yes, we tailor our messages to different audiences because we wanna educate them about what this means for them no matter where they fall on the political spectrum because we think it is important for everyone to support this kind of activity. And here's a more targeted question. It says, can you address whatever you might be doing around cannabis or CBD research and the extent to which we might be seeking or be interested in federal estate funding? This person says it seems like a significant part of the California economy right now. So anything like that on your radar? You know, the issue has come up. I believe we do have cannabis research going on on our campus. It hasn't been something that I've directly been involved in. Maybe my staff have had some connections with them to educate our legislators about what we're doing with cannabis research. It's probably the extent of it at the moment that I know of, but I haven't been intimately involved with that. Got it. We're gonna swing back to the state side for probably the last few questions here. This is an interesting question. Do you think there's any chance that Proposition 209 and that's the proposition for those of you who don't know precludes the campus from looking at ethnicity among other things when it comes to admissions and I think hiring practices as well. So this person asked, do you think there's any chance that Prop 209 might ever get reversed? That's an interesting question. I would say there were about maybe five or six years ago, there were a lot of efforts around this, working with different constituencies to really push to get this overturned. I think the reality of how UC does admissions right now, most of the other campuses have followed Berkeley's lead in doing this very comprehensive approach to admissions where we don't just look at one thing and it's a holistic approach. I think we have 14 criteria we look at and so we're really kind of moving away from that mentality, I think. And so I feel like the admissions, we're gonna have a lot of scrutiny on admissions process given the whole admissions scandal going on and so we have state audits happening, we have our own internal audits happening, there's legislation. So there's gonna be a lot of oversight over our admissions policy, but I think it's pretty solid right now in that it includes a lot of different factors, not just race. Yeah. We're only gonna have time for a few more so I see some people who are writing on cards and probably won't be able to get to it so we only have a few more minutes, but we'll try. Sorry, just for a second, this one. So I'm gonna hop back to the federal side. Actually, I meant to ask it before and this person is asking about your office's involvement in the whole foreign influence and research conversation. For those of you who may not be aware have had a lot of interaction with federal agencies about support or contributions from foreign companies, particularly China and scholars from China and faculty who are involved in China, there's a lot of energy around that right now. And so this person is asking, this person notes the Department of Energy recently released memos potentially restricting researchers receiving funds. I guess this has to do with, again, interactions or collaborations with China or with Chinese researchers or Chinese entities. What's going on with that? How would you assess the situation? Are we, is it peaking? Is there more to come? And what kind of involvement does your office have? So there is a lot of work being done on this in Washington. There are, I think, at least eight congressional committees between the House and the Senate looking at the issues around foreign influence. It continues to be a topic of great interest to them. There are, I think, inquiries going on even with the National Science Foundation, NIH, around existing grants and they're reaching into universities and asking all sorts of questions. Our campus is part of a pilot project with Department of Defense looking into some of these issues and how we can balance the federal oversight with privacy issues and for our researchers and our students and faculty. So it's a hot topic. We're engaged, again, with the UC System on this. The UC System had two different Tiger teams on internationalization and foreign influence looking at these and there is a committee on our campus co-chaired by Randy Katz and Lisa Alvarez Cohen who are looking at all the implications for our campus. So yes, we're engaged in it and it'll be, I think, going on for some time. So what's the university's stance? Is it like, nah, there's nothing to worry about here. This is just another red scare or, oh my God, yes, we're freaking out or somewhere in the middle there's some legitimacy to these concerns. What's our stance as the UC or Berkeley or wherever you wanna put it about all this? Well, we're taking it very seriously. I mean, there were indictments around the Huawei partnerships and so Vice Chancellor Katz has been actively involved in that and stopped our current engagements with Huawei. Actually, future. Future, yes, right, suspended future, thank you. So it's not a nothing and it's not a hair and fire. I think we're walking this line of how we need to be responsive, clearly to the government's interests but also be responsive to our faculty and our researchers and our students who come from other countries and have a right to be here. So here's another interesting question. You mentioned in the beginning that you had a small, the elite eight but somebody asked a good question. So if you had more people, would it help? I mean, what's, what's? Yes. No. Who got paid off here? I mean, in other words, if you had more people, what else would you be doing if you could? What, what there is being, is being left unaddressed? It's being left unaddressed. Well, look, what we have to do with the smaller team is just scale back the amount of work that we can do on any topic. I mean, we tend to be people who have to deal with a lot of different things and so we were kind of a mile wide and an inch deep although we build up expertise in particular issues as needed. But there's so much going on at the federal government and at the state government that, I mean, let's just take local just given what we have on our plate for this housing strategy and all the work with the community. We used to have four people in our office doing community relations that we now have two, one and a half or two. So it's just limits the amount of effort that you can give to these issues and it's a lot, a lot to juggle. So I think we could be advancing more of our interest particularly in Washington and in the state and then locally if we have more. So this is gonna lead to what is the last question and you addressed it partially before but I really wanna come back to it because it's something that I think we hear a lot and particularly in the context of the fact that perhaps you don't have the size staff that in a perfect world you might have and the question is what kind of institutional mechanisms or support can students leverage to get involved? And I just to really talk about that student angle besides just writing to their congressman, are there effective beneficial avenues that students who wanna advocate and get engaged can access? So first of all, I'll just do a quick pitch for UCAN which is the UC's Advocacy Network. Everybody can sign up for that. The notifications and the work that's done through the UCAN network gives people a lot of information about what's going on, tells you ways you can get involved. From our office's perspective, we partner with students and student leadership in particular to not just send letters or make phone calls but we engage with them in actually visiting legislators' offices. The chancellor has actually brought students with her on her visits to the Capitol and so they're an important voice and we just had our UC Berkeley Day in Sacramento where we brought two different teams with alumni and the chancellor and a regent as well as students. So we try to include them because they are a critical voice for us, so it's good. Super. So before I thank Chris formally, just to note that the next campus conversation will be on May 13th with none other than chancellor Chris and executive vice chancellor and provost Paul Alavisados and that'll be in here. We're gonna have it here, so look forward to seeing all of you then and otherwise Chris, I wanna thank you for walking that tightrope really, really well today and for all the work that you guys do. Thank you. Thanks for having me.


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