UC Berkeley Public Policy School Renamed After $10-Million Gift
The Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund, a prominent Bay Area philanthropic group, has donated $10 million to the Graduate School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley.
In honor of the gift, the University of California has named the school the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy.
The gift will help improve the school’s facilities on Hearst Avenue and help launch several academic and public outreach initiatives.
The bulk of the gift--$7 million--will be known as the Goldman Funds for Public Policy. The money will extend the school’s involvement in the community and create new sources of support for research and exchange among faculty and students.
“This gift will bolster the stature of Berkeley’s public policy and government programs, currently matched in quality only by Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,” said Chancellor Robert M. Berdahl.
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