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Turbo Charge Your Job Hunt
Because he loves his job as an employment industry expert, few people think more about work than Phil Blair. Beginning in 1977, he has built Manpower San Diego into the largest Manpower franchise in the U.S. It is San Diego’s fourth largest for-profit employer providing approximately 2,500 jobs daily. Watch Job Won and learn strategies […]
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Goldman Talkers
Trained in fiction with an MFA in creative writing, a young Ben Rhodes soon found himself writing foreign policy speeches — first, for a think tank and then later, for the President of the United States. He shares his colorful journey from graduate school to the White House with the 2014 graduates of the Goldman […]
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Conversation with GoPro Founder, Nick Woodman
UC San Diego Alumnus and GoPro Founder Nick Woodman turned to his wife Jill recently and asked, “Is this really happening?” The occasion was Nick’s triumphant return to UC San Diego where he was interviewed along with Jill and former classmate Justin Wilkenfeld in front of a boisterous audience of students and GoPro fans. Watch […]
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Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal
In 2006, when Rebecca Dresser was diagnosed with oral cancer, her life was thrown off-balance. As a professor of law and biomedical ethics, she had been teaching and writing for years about the complex ethical, moral, and medical challenges of dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Yet she found herself personally unprepared for the […]
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Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock
The Romani, not to be confused with the Romanian nation or people, are a diasporic ethnicity more widely known as “gypsies.” Throughout the world they are variously known as Rom, Roma, Romane, Cigáni and Gitano, just to name a few. In this presentation about the Romani and the Holocaust, Ian Hancock, professor of English and […]
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20 Years of NAFTA and Beyond – Mexico Moving Forward 2014
NAFTA’s impact on the last two decades and its effect on the future are featured prominently in this year’s UCSD-TV series, Mexico Moving Forward. Listen to business leaders, scholars, and social entrepreneurs provide diverse perspectives on the current economic challenges in Mexico, what can and is being done to address them, and how these lessons […]
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Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement
It began with 70 strikers. On March 17, 1966 after a stand-off with the Delano police, Cesar Chavez led La Peregrinacíon (The Pilgrimage), a march of Delano grape strikers and volunteers onto the highway en route to Sacramento. Their goal was to meet with the governor of California to protest the hazardous working conditions of […]
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Nearly all of us buy into what UC Riverside psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky calls the myths of happiness — beliefs that certain adult achievements (marriage, kids, jobs, wealth) will make us forever happy and that certain adult failures or adversities (health problems, divorce, having little money) will make us forever unhappy. In this presentation for […]
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Health Reform at the Crossroads
Democrats and Republicans have been working to create laws that reform the American health care system for decades. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, is the first successful major overhaul of health care since Medicare in 1965. The Act affirms “the core principle that everybody should have some basic security […]