-Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2009 by Christopher Edley Jr.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-edley1-2009jul01,0,6964045.story
UC XI would have selective admissions; tuition somewhere between community college and the on-campus UC price, part-time and “anytime” options and lectures by the best faculty from the entire UC system. Our online students might miss the keg parties, but they would have the same world-class faculty, UC graduate student instructors and adjunct faculty. The UC XI cyber-campus could be a way to put high-quality higher education within reach of tens of thousands more students, including part-timers, and eventually provide a revenue boost for higher education.
-The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2, 2009 by Josh Fischman
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3861/a-california-dream-saving-state-universities-with-an-online-campus
“We’ve had decades of increasing dysfunction in Sacramento and smoldering doubts in some quarters about the value of supporting public education,” Mr. Edley writes. “Now comes the resulting surge in victims — present and future — in families and throughout the economy.” Online learning, he concludes, could save the California dream of a top-notch education for all. The best offense in a crisis, he concludes, “is often innovation.”
-San Jose Mercury News, July 10, 2009 by Lisa M. Krieger
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12813681?source=rss
The UC “cybercampus could be a way to put high-quality higher education within reach of tens of thousands more students,” he wrote this week in a Los Angeles Times editorial. An online campus is a way to provide students with an affordable education and build up the middle class.