-San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2010 by Christopher Edley, Jr.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/18/INMJ1EDUFJ.DTL
If successful, I hope the university will embrace large-scale online instruction—not to replace the on-campus experience, but to enrich it. More urgently, online learning would enable us to serve the growing number of qualified students for whom there will be no room on campus or for whom a residential full-time program won’t work…. Our purpose is to advance knowledge while democratizing excellence. To do that, we must innovate.
-San Francisco Chronicle, July 18, 2010 Editorial
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/18/ED4S1EDLBO.DTL
“Our inability to move quickly is creating a gap in the marketplace that these other institutions are running to fill,” Edley said in a recent meeting with the editorial board.
-The Sacramento Bee, July 27, 2010 by Laurel Rosenhall
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/27/2916588/uc-professors-raise-doubts-about.html#ixzz0uu4C69Cf
“How do we provide access to UC quality when the state is not there for us and the student demand is growing? We need an alternative to the bricks-and-mortar model, and this may be it,” said Edley.