California’s usage of a defined benefit program goes back to its creation in the 1930s. Over the years, the defined benefit system struck a natural balance between retirement liabilities and the assets available to cover these liabilities. Unfortunate . . .

California’s Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division is responsible ensuring the health and safety of up to 1.4 million vulnerable Californians. However, the agency has suffered from resource problems that have jeopardized the . . .

With more travel demand and more miles of roadway, West Sacramento has an increasing street rehabilitation responsibility. This thesis develops a sustainable, equitable, and politically and administratively feasible City of West Sacramento Street Reha . . .

The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is the state’s current effort to attempt to accomplish the co-equal goals of a water supply reliability and ecosystem restoration. The BDCP is a proposed Habitat Conservation Plan and Natural Community Conservati . . .

California is the only state to entitle individuals with developmental disabilities to the services and supports required to live independent and productive lives. Fulfilling the entitlement has proved challenging for the California Department of Deve . . .

I sought to discover if any student populations were disproportionally impacted by enrollment cuts put in place within the California State University to be completed within the 2010-2011 academic year. I produced this analysis using descriptive analy . . .

Is Sacramento State’s Leadership Initiative well designed? Can the program design be improved? In this thesis, I create a rubric to evaluate the Leadership Initiative program design by extracting approximately 100 program design goals from relevant li . . .

Trial by jury is an integral part of our criminal justice system and one that is well respected by citizens. However, in some parts of the nation less than half of the people summoned to jury duty respond to the summons. In response to this problem, t . . .

Voter opinion surveys help frame American debate on matters of public policy and can influence legislators’ decisions. Voter surveys generally use one of two sampling methods. Voter file sampling includes information about respondents, but may lack un . . .

Scientists and researchers argue that overconsumption of resources and continued pollution from human activities have created a variety of environmental problems including deforestation, loss of biodiversity, changes in climate, loss of open space, po . . .