San Francisco Chronicle, Bottom Line, July 31, 2009 by Andrew S. Ross
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/31/BUPL1914AV.DTL
The proposals include: a 6 percent flat tax. Major pushback here. Commissioner Christopher Edley, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, called it “part of the traditional conservative agenda.”
The New York Times, July 25, 2009 by Peter Baker and Helene Cooper
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/politics/25gates.html?_r=1
Christopher Edley Jr., a former adviser to President Bill Clinton on race issues and now law school dean at the University of California, Berkeley, said the episode dispelled the “rosy hopefulness” stemming from Mr. Obama’s election “in case anybody needed more evidence that we’re not beyond race.”
The National Law Journal, July 24, 2009 by Amanda Bronstad
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202432528463&Pay_cuts_coming_at_the_University_of_Californias_law_schools_&slreturn=1
“I wanted to do everything possible to avoid, or at the least minimize, repercussions for our [law] community once details would eventually materialize,” said Berkeley Dean Christopher Edley Jr. in a memo on July 24 to faculty and staff. Edley serves on the newly formed Commission on the Future of UC, which is recommending changes to the university system in light of the budget reductions. “With the support and creative thinking of managers and staff from every quarter of the law school, I believe we have been pretty successful in this effort,” he said.
-The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 22, 2009 by Marc Beja
http://chronicle.com/article/Online-Campus-Could-Solve-Many/47432/
My primary passions are in the racial-justice arena, and it’s perfectly predictable that underrepresented minorities will increasingly be left behind unless we find new strategies … Many transfer-ready students in the community-college system were opting to go to the University of Phoenix rather than go to UC. Even more surprising, this phenomenon was disproportionately true for blacks and Latinos. My hypothesis is that it is because of the convenience—the ability to do part-time, anytime course work, the ability to work part time, stay at home, et cetera.
– KPCC, Southern California Public Radio, July 23, 2009 by Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/07/23/online-education-extends-public-high-school-and-po/
“We want to pull together classes that have enough coherence so that you’d be able to take majors and graduate fully with online courses, rather than a course here and a course there to augment what is basically an on-campus experience. It’s got to be more complete and more strategically assembled.”
-The Sacramento Bee, July 7, 2009 by Dan Walters
http://www.sacbee.com/walters/story/2005044.html
Keeley and Boalt Hall School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr. are drafting the blue plan for presentation to the commission next week in a direct challenge to Parsky, who has been pushing his vision of tax reform very hard.
-Calbuzz, July 13, 2009 by Jerry Roberts and Phil Trounstine
http://www.calbuzz.com/2009/07/red-blue-clash-emerges-in-21st-century-commission/
After the elements of that idea—which became known as the Red Plan—were well-publicized and thoroughly examined by the commission’s staff, the liberal wing on the commission, led by Keeley and Christopher Edley, dean of the Boalt Hall School of Law, came forth with an alternate Blue Plan.
-California Progress Report, July 15, 2009 by Peter Schrag
http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2009/07/flat_taxers_on.html
The Keeley proposal, which is supported in large part by Commission member Chris Edley, the dean of Boalt Hall Law School, would also create a split property tax roll which, while leaving residential property taxes and assessments untouched, would provide for annual reassessment of commercial property.
-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.
The New York Times, May 17, 2009 by Eric Lichtblau
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/us/17kagan.html?pagewanted=print
“There were some important issues on which Elena took centrist or even center-right positions, but it was never clear whether she was pressing her own views or merely carrying water for her boss on the Domestic Policy Council, Bruce Reed,” said Christopher Edley Jr., who worked with Ms. Kagan at the White House…. “Regardless,” Mr. Edley said, “everyone admired her brilliance and effectiveness. She’d be a real force on the court.”
Contra Costa Times, May 15, 2009 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/nationandworld/ci_12380542
At Boalt Hall School of Law next door, some graduates are being offered new fellowships to help weather the unprecedented rough spot in the legal industry. Although public-interest jobs appear to be toughest to come by, large firms also are suffering, said Dean Christopher Edley. “There’s still a lot of anxiety because folks still don’t know where the bottom is, so they’re reluctant to make hiring commitments,” he said. “We’ve definitely seen our graduating students having to work harder to find a job they’re happy with.”
NPR, All Things Considered, May 11, 2009 Host Michelle Norris
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=104032583&m=104032563
Maria Echaveste: I read it as he was looking for someone who understood that these decisions were not abstract notions to be determined solely, solely upon the strict legal reasoning without any consideration of the real life consequences when you make a decision. People who are going to think critically: what does this mean? How does this impact people’s real lives? Because that is what the Supreme Court does.
Chris Edley: The easy questions are dealt with by the lower courts. It’s the hardest questions and the most important questions that get before the Supreme Court, and, on those questions, it is unusual if strict doctrine gives you the answer by itself. You can’t just look at the page and find the answer. You have to think about what’s the purpose of the law to make it alive.
The Shark blog, May 11, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://theshark.typepad.com/weblog/2009/05/berkeley-law-comes-out-with-its-list-of-helpful-whatnots-for-students-and-alums-in-a-financial-pickl.html#more
Edley predicts the bigger crunch will come next year, when he says he expects fewer private sector openings for second-years and for students earning their JDs in 2010. Students who may have—in more robust economic times—hopped and skipped off to big firm gigs will instead be taking a closer look at their options in public interest work. “This is useful for opening their eyes to other forms of practice,” Edley said.