Michael Dukakis to speak at Cal Poly Pomona

Cal Poly Pomona will welcome the 1988 Democratic party's presidential nominee to campus.

Michael Dukakis will deliver the speech "Public Service, A Great Career" at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Bronco Student Center's Ursa Major room. The campus is at 3801 W. Temple Ave.

The talk is free and open to the public.

Cal Poly's dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences is sponsoring the event, which is organized by the Department of Political Science and Master of Public Administration, the university announced in a statement.

Dukakis' talk is designed to stimulate discussion about the importance of public service, James Kim, assistant professor of political science, said in the statement.

Currently, Dukakis is serving as a distinguished professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston.

He has been an advocate of public service.

His own entry into public service came when he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature in 1962. He went on to be elected Massachusetts governor in 1974 and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully against Vice President George H.W. Bush.

Dukakis has also been an advocate of public transportation and served as a member of the board of directors of Amtrak and the National Railroad Passenger Corporation.