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8A Daily News – Friday, November 9, 2012 Education in Tehama County KEEP ON LEARNING Ag-cellent freshmen Charter school travels to Ashland Courtesy photo Sharing their knowledge in agriculture, Red Bluff High School agriculture students and FFA members, Paige Smith and Alyssa Shank, did a presentation to four of the third grade classes at Bidwell Elementary School. Their lesson focused on cuts of meat from a cow, pig and chicken. Paige and Alyssa handed out flyers, answered questions and ended the presentation with a fun game leaving the elementary students mooing, oinking and clucking around the classroom. "It was fun to teach the kids about agriculture, which is stuff that I think is so cool and like to learn about," Smith said. "They also had a lot of great questions that showed that they were truly interested." There is hope that Paige and Alyssa's enthusiasm will influence the youth of Red Bluff to be involved in agriculture in their futures. PG&E scholarships Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced Monday that its Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are now accepting applications from aspiring and continuing college students for financial assistance through the ERGs' scholarship funds. At least 100 students will receive $1,000 to $5,000 each for exemplary scholastic achievement and community leadership. All college-bound students living within PG&E's Northern and Central California service area are eligible to apply. In 2012, the utility's ERGs award- ed $302,000 in scholarships to help 163 students with their college expenses. Sacramento River Discovery Charter School's high school Language Arts students have been studying different Shakespearean plays this year. In order to help bring that literature alive, students took a trip during the week of Oct. 29-Nov. 2 to the Ashland Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon to watch a performance of William Shakespeare's tragedy,Romeo and Juliet. The students enjoyed all aspects of the trip and are still raving about the experience. Their teacher, Carrie Patterson, and the school plan on making this trip an annual event for all high school students." SERRF students cheer for Lights on After School "Recognizing and supporting young people who are dedicated students and contributing to their communities is a privilege for PG&E," said Bill Harper, PG&E's vice president of talent manage- ment and chief diversity officer. "We are delighted that our ERG scholarships have given young people in our communities a chance to receive support to help them afford a college education." To apply for a scholarship, students need to sub- mit a basic and supplemental application. Complete scholarship information is posted on the PG&E scholarship website at www.pge.com/about/com- munity/scholarships/. Completed applications must be uploaded, post- marked or e-mailed to PG&E by Feb. 1. Courtesy photo Ernesto Amaya leads Rancho Tehama SERRF students in a cheer, 'After High School Comes Col- lege.' The SERRF afterschool program belongs to the 'No Excuses University' movement. This was part of the 'Lights On After School' celebration, where familiy and friends participated in fun activi- ties and a healthy snack prepared and served by the students. BERKELEY (AP) — A Columbia University dean was nominated Thursday as the next chancellor at the Uni- versity of California, Berkeley, following a Columbia dean named as new UC Berkeley chancellor six-month search. Yudof said he selected Nicholas Dirks, Colum- bia's executive vice president and dean of the faculty for arts and UC President Mark sciences, to replace out- going Berkeley chancel- lor Robert Birgeneau. Dirks' appointment, his salary and other job terms still must be approved by the univer- sity's governing board. Birgeneau currently makes $445,716 a year, UC spokeswoman Shelly Meron said. Birgeneau has been chancellor since Sep- tember 2004 and announced in March that he planned to step down at the end of the year. He agreed to stay on through May to give Dirks time to make the move. of diversity efforts at Columbia and experi- ence with both public and private universities will serve him and the campus well.'' Dirks, 61, is an anthropologist and his- torian who has written three books about India. For the last eight years he has been the adminis- trator overseeing Columbia College, a small liberal arts school within the university, and Columbia's Gradu- ate School of Arts and Sciences, School of International and Public Affairs, School of the Arts, School of General Studies and School of Continuing Education. ''Nicholas Dirks is a highly accomplished leader with the sensibil- ities and knowledge of a humanist, as well as extensive fundraising, academic and adminis- trative Yudof said in a state- ment. ''I'm confident he will be a great fit for UC Berkeley. His global perspective, leadership Regents agrees to the appointment, Dirks will be inheriting an institu- tion with a reputation as one of the world's lead- ing research universities and a hotbed of student activism. Birgeneau has spent the last few years con- fronting crises arising from a sharp decline in state support caused by California's financial crisis and rowdy student protests over budget cuts and rising UC tuition, which has more than doubled during the chancellor's tenure. He and other school administrators were criticized for a police crackdown on students who tried to set up an Occupy camp on cam- pus a year ago. Dirks, whose father If the UC Board of expertise,'' was a dean at UC Santa Cruz during the 1970s, said he is excited by the challenges Berkeley presents. ''This is an opportu- nity I embrace with both excitement and humili- ty,'' he said. ''I look for- ward to becoming part of the UC community and to contributing all that I can to the further evolution of a campus that is a beacon of excellence, innovation and aspiration for Cali- fornia, the nation and the world.''