Computer News

Every student is issued a computer user account and email address with a temporary password while at the UC Washington Center.

You must login to a lab computer to change your temporary password before you can access any websites which require a UCDC account login such as Computer Registration, Online Work order, or webmail.

Residential Services Welcome

Welcome to the UC Washington Center. The Residential Services Office is located on the 4th floor. At our office you can pick-up packages, check your mailbox, rent DVD players, VCRs, and Board Games. We’re also here to try and make your stay in the Center as enjoyable as possible and to address residential concerns that may arise. Our office is open Monday-Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Fridays, 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Come by and say hello!

UC Center Forums

Welcome to Washington! Every Monday, come check out the UC Washington Center Forum Lecture series! These seminars and workshops will expose you to hot topics and give you direct access to Ambassadors, members of Congress, and many top policy makers and journalists in the DC and California community.

September 24th—Auditorium:
Bryce Harlow Institute, Lobbying Panel: Chris Hansen, Group Executive Officer, State and National Initiatives, AARP Ed Ingle, Managing Director, Government Affairs, Microsoft
Melissa Laurenza, Associate, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

October 1st—Room A/B:
Fall Quarter Kick Off!

October 8th—Room A/B:
Roger Wilkins, George Mason
University professor, civil rights
activist, and journalist

October 22nd—Room A/B:
Career Night series kick off!
“Beyond the Beltway: Making a Successful Transition from College to Work” with Lauren Payne, Career Advisor, UC San Diego’s Career Services Center

October 29th—Room A/B:
Rajiv Chandraseakaran, Assist. Managing Editor, The Washington Post

For more details on Center Forums, see http://www.ucdc.edu/aboutus/centerforum.cfm.

UC Washington Center Congressional Fellowship

Are you a UC Student working on Capitol Hill this fall!?

If the answer is yes, then you are eligible to apply for the UC Washington Center and the UC Office of Federal Government Relations UC Congressional Fellowship (UCCF) this fall.

As a congressional fellow, you will be provided with additional support (a financial award, training and networking opportunities) and the UCCF program will also help connect UC congressional fellows to issues that impact the UC system as a whole.

Applicants will be reviewed on their application essay questions, qualifications, experience and interviews.

To request an application, please email Roya Soleimani at: fellowship@ucdc.edu. Applications are due by no later than midnight on September 30th. In fairness to all applicants, late applications will not be accepted.

Message from Director Bruce Cain

As the Director of UC’s Washington Center, I welcome all of you who are arriving for the Fall term. For those of you who do not know me, I am a Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley as well as the Center’s Director. Like the professors at your home campuses, I have published many books and articles in my thirty years as an academic, but more than most, I have an enduring interest in experiential
political learning. My own career was very positively influenced by a year as a state redistricting consultant in the early eighties, and since that time, I have worked with governments at all levels and the media in various capacities. I know first hand how valuable political sector and nonprofit experience can be.

Working with student representatives, I instituted a number of changes to improve programming and the quality of life for undergraduates at the Center. I look forward to continuing that discussion and making further improvements. I want the UC undergraduate intern program to be as innovative and valuable as possible. You will see that the Center’s staff is very dedicated and skilled in their work. I urge you to participate in as many of the Center’s forums and workshops as possible so that you get the most you can out of your Washington experience.

In the meantime, get unpacked, poke your nose around town and get a sense of what goes on in the nation’s capital. Based on the experiences of students before you, you are about to have a wonderful time at the Center.

Bruce Cain