Prof. Robert Reich (HS) is currently teaching as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. According to his administrative assistant, Michelle Browning, he is teaching a "spin-off of 'Wealth and Poverty,'" the popular course 224 undergraduate students took last semester. But at Berkeley, "Wealth and Poverty" will be geared toward mostly graduate students. The course deals mainly with the conflicts between economic survival in the market and the need for social responsibility. Reich served as Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, assistant to the solicitor general in the Ford administration and head of the policy planning staff of the Federal Trade Commission in Jimmy Carter's administration.

Like the Heller School, The Goldman School of Public Policy, the graduate school where Reich will teach for a semester, also trains students in public policy formulation and evaluation.

According to the UC Berkeley News Press Center, Reich's 10th book, Reason, which will deal with politics and the economy, is due out in May. While he is a professor at Berkeley, he will work on another book about leadership and change, as well as teach and give lectures.

According to Browning, Reich chose to teach at UC Berkeley this semester because he "couldn't deal with another New England winter," she said while laughing, adding that this is the only reason that she had received for his relocation.

Browning said Reich will be returning to Brandeis next week in order to participate in a round table discussion on distinguished management at the Heller School on Feb. 5.

Furthermore, he will return to Brandeis full-time in May and will be teaching classes next semester.