KVPT and Great Valley Center (GVC) recognize the need to raise awareness and promote solutions to the economic, social and environmental challenges facing California’s fastest growing region, the Central Valley. In an effort to improve the area in which we live, encourage informed decision making and help our communities plan for the future, GREAT VALLEY is designed to provide reliable information to public television audiences, including active/engaged citizens, policymakers and businesses. Topics will range from population growth to healthcare, land use to environmental care, education to employment, civic to social engagement and agriculture to the arts.
Series premieres Friday, February 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm on KVPT.
Hosted by David Hosley, President of the Great Valley Center.
More Coverage:
→ KVPT joins Great Valley Center in new public affairs series - (1/21/10, Merced Sun Star)
Monday, January 25, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
The Appalachia of the West: California’s agricultural heartland threatens to become a wasteland
The following article was printed in the The Economist on January 21, 2010:
MIKE CHRISMAN looks out from his SUV as he drives through seemingly endless rows of walnut trees on his property near Visalia, in central California. “I have to be optimistic, I’m so tied to this land,” he says. His great-grandfather, after trying his luck in the Gold Rush, settled in Visalia in the 1850s, and the family has been there ever since. But as California’s secretary for natural resources—a job at the intersection of the environmental and farming lobbies, perennially at loggerheads over the state’s scarcest resource, water—Mr Chrisman also knows that optimism has become a minority view.
MIKE CHRISMAN looks out from his SUV as he drives through seemingly endless rows of walnut trees on his property near Visalia, in central California. “I have to be optimistic, I’m so tied to this land,” he says. His great-grandfather, after trying his luck in the Gold Rush, settled in Visalia in the 1850s, and the family has been there ever since. But as California’s secretary for natural resources—a job at the intersection of the environmental and farming lobbies, perennially at loggerheads over the state’s scarcest resource, water—Mr Chrisman also knows that optimism has become a minority view. His land is in California’s Central Valley, a region that covers 19 counties and stretches for 450 miles (725km) from the Cascade mountains in the north to the Tehachapis in the south, and is bounded in the east by the Sierra Nevada and the west by California’s Coast Ranges. Much of it was an inland sea in its geological past, and its alluvial soils and Mediterranean climate make parts of it, particularly the San Joaquin valley in the south, about the most fertile agricultural region in the world.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Modesto Bee: UC Merced taps Hosley as interim vice chancellor
Modesto BeeFriday, January 8, 2010
The University of California at Merced on Thursday announced the appointment of David H. Hosley as interim vice chancellor for university relations, effective Feb. 1. Hosley has served as president of UC Merced's Modesto-based Great Valley Center since February 2008.
Previously, he was president and general manager of KVIE Public Television in Sacramento for 10 years. Hosley succeeds John Garamendi Jr., who in December announced his intention to leave the university to start a consulting business. Garamendi officially resigned Jan. 4.
Hosley will oversee all aspects of university development, including fund raising and trustee relations, as well as government relations and communications. Hosley's interim appointment is for one year. He will continue as president of the Great Valley Center during this time.
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→ Read the UC Merced Press Release
Hosley named interim vice chancellor at UC Merced (January 8, 2010 in Merced Sun-Star)
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