Political analyst is ULS speaker

Matthew Miller

By Jodie Mocciaro
University Communications student-intern

Matthew Miller, syndicated columnist, public radio host, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of "The Two Percent Solution: Fixing America’s Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love,” will kick off the University Lecture Series on Oct. 12.

The program will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Satellite Student Union.

Miller hosts “Left, Right & Center,” a political week-in-review program aired on public radio stations across the country. The program airs locally on KVPR 89.3 Saturdays at 4:30 p.m.

Miller argues that for two cents on the national dollar we can insure the 45 million uninsured, subsidize a living minimum wage of $9 - $10 an hour, make the best teachers of poor children millionaires over their careers, and more. He also says we can reach these "liberal" goals through "conservative" means -- and when the dust clears government would be smaller than it was when Ronald Reagan was president.

Miller is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior adviser to the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Miller also consults to leading corporations, nonprofits and governmental organizations on issues of strategy, policy and communications, with special emphasis on education, health care and economics.

Miller is an award-winning contributor to “The New York Times,” “The Atlantic Monthly,” “Fortune” and other national magazines, and his column appears in more than 50 leading newspapers.

As senior director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Millers work led to some of the most sweeping changes at OMB in two decades. From 1991 to 1992 he was a White House Fellow, serving as a Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

Tickets go on sale Monday, Sept. 27, at the Satellite Student Union Box Office (8-2078) from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on a first come, first serve basis.                                                

Advance ticket prices are $10 general, $6 faculty/staff/alumni association, seniors and high school students; and $2 Fresno State and University High School students. At the door, ticket prices are $12 general, $8 faculty/staff/alumni association, seniors and high school students; and $2 Fresno State and UHS students.

The University Lecture Series is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs with cooperation from the University Student Union, Associated Students, Inc., KJWL, KVPR and Piccadilly Inn Hotels . 

For more information see http://www.csufresno.edu/universitylecture/speakers.htm