Political Science Chair Scott Straus was featured in an article in The New York Times titled, “U.C. Berkeley Will Start Institute Named for Pelosi.”<\/p>\n
The University of California, Berkeley, will open an institute named for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco Democrat who rose to become the first woman to lead the House and one of President Trump\u2019s most ferocious adversaries.<\/p>\n
Campus officials are billing the institute as a nonpartisan, academically rigorous operation focused on the tending of American democracy. But the announcement comes as the university faces extraordinary pressure from the Trump administration, which has spent months pelting the campus with investigations.<\/p>\n
Ms. Pelosi\u2019s new role at U.C. Berkeley, which will include teaching and fund-raising, may not tamp down the animosity. Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Trump have been frequent antagonists; she has described him as a \u201cvile creature,\u201d and he has called her an \u201cevil woman.\u201d<\/p>\n
But the professors who approached Ms. Pelosi, who will leave office in January, said they were inspired, in part, by the former speaker\u2019s stature and by organizations like Harvard\u2019s Institute of Politics, a decades-old haven for debates about campaigns and public policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really want to emphasize leadership in public service for students to be able to be better advocates for the causes they believe in, whatever those are,\u201d said Scott Straus, the chair of Berkeley\u2019s political science department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political Science Chair Scott Straus was featured in an article in The New York Times titled, “U.C. Berkeley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-388318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}