-San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 2010 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/24/BAOQ1C6JC8.DTL

“Goodwin Liu is an outstanding teacher, a brilliant scholar and an exceptional public servant,” said the law school’s dean, Christopher Edley.

-San Jose Mercury News, February 24, 2010 by Josh Richman
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14462613

Boalt Hall Dean Christopher Edley called Liu “an outstanding teacher, a brilliant scholar, and an exceptional public servant” who is “widely admired for his intellect, fairness, and good judgment — this is a superb nomination.”

The New York Times, February 14, 2010 by Jodi Kantor Charlie Savage
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/us/politics/15holder.html

“Eric is not a politician,” said Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. “He is a superb lawyer with rich experience working in political environments, but not a politician.”

London Times, February 1, 2010 by Giles Whittell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7010392.ece

“You have to be his inner LBJ, the leader who twists arms past their breaking point and is prepared to make some enemies in order to make some progress,” he said.

UC Berkeley News, February 1, 2010 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/02/01_climate.shtml

“It’s also a problem of the university for usually failing to take seriously the need to build the connections between the research, the policy implications of the research, and the institutional designs needed to actually execute those policies once adopted.”

San Francisco Chronicle, January 24, 2010 Editorial
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/24/EDG61BKAPE.DTL&type=printable

Law School Dean Christopher Edley says he supports debate and discussion…. “While many students and faculty are critical of the Bush administration policies and even of some of John’s actions, they think that academic freedom means that his right to be here and to teach has to be protected, until or unless there’s some sort of a conviction.”

The New York Times, The Bay Area News blog, January 13, 2010 by Anna Bloom
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/john-yoos-spring-course-at-boalt-hide-and-seek/

Vital principles of academic freedom require that all of us affirm and respect his right to teach and the right of our students to take courses from him without interference, including disruption or intimidation. I have specifically asked my staff and the university police to make reasonable efforts to prevent such disruption or intimidation and, if unsuccessful, to arrest trespassers.

The Boston Globe, December 27, 2009 by Susan Milligan
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/12/27/obama_ends_first_year_with_some_progress_and_more_work_ahead/

“I think, given the unexpected, added challenges of the economy and the war, it’s almost miraculous that there’s been substantial progress” on issues Obama laid out at the start of his presidency, Edley said.

-The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009 by Kelly Evans
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/22/is-obamas-health-care-push-jeopardizing-education-reform/

Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Law, said the President’s transition team—of which he was a member—had a difficult time whittling down its priorities. “We tried to make a list of just two or three things and couldn’t do it,” he said.

-October 22, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-barriers-to-education-reform/7C6D7249-D62B-461A-A10C-7F27D8233D7B.html

“You have to appreciate that overwhelming advice, non-stop for the last year and a half, has been ‘Forget about education; do that later.’ And he keeps putting it up there; he keeps pushing it to the front burner so I think there’s no issue there about the fact that the President understands it, he understands the importance of it with respect to the economy. The question is whether or not he’s going to pick the right strategy to advance the program.”

-October 26, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704754804574491180197671224.html

If this really is a national priority, both with respect to opportunity and with respect to competitiveness, you have to ask yourself whether a 19th century model for financing and governing K-12 is going to work in this century, and I profoundly believe the answer is no.