The Oakland Tribune, August 16, 2010 by Sean Maher
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_15794112

“Any effort to discipline a faculty member for their outside activities creates dangers that ideological or political agendas may be advanced under the vague banner of ‘morality,'” Edley said. “I hope these new developments will end the arguments about faculty sanctions, but we should and will continue to argue about what is right or wrong, legal or illegal in combating terrorism.”

Inside Higher Ed, August 3, 2010 by Steve Kolowich
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/08/03/california

“Quality,” says Edley, might mean something completely different in the online world. “What will be key,” he says, “is making sure we don’t define quality as replicating or simulating everything that goes on on campus, but instead ask what is fundamental to quality, and then examine the trade-offs.”

CNN, State of the Union, July 25, 2010 Host Candy Crowley
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1007/25/sotu.01.html

”I think there are actually three stories here. One is about political mismanagement on the part of the administration and mismanagement in journalism. The second is about race. And the third is about the interaction of the two. And what we’ve seen is that the likelihood of mismanagement goes up if race is involved and the stakes go up as well.”

Bloomberg, July 21, 2010 Host Margaret Brennan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/07/21/VI2010072103171.html

“Every year, the states receive hundreds of billions of dollars in payments from the federal government—in Medicaid, in highway spending, in housing, in community development and a score of other programs…. So the idea is very simple: give an advance to states. Let them elect to borrow from the Treasury…. As we come out of the Recession, as the states are in better shape, the Treasury can simply deduct the amount from the funds that would otherwise be going to the state. So it’s a guaranteed repayment, plus interest.”

-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.

-San Francisco Chronicle, July 12, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/11/MN581EAQR0.DTL

“We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale—and that has not been done,” said UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, who is leading the effort.

-The Bay Citizen, July 14, 2010 by Gerry Shih
http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/dean-pushes-virtual-uc-berkeley/

There is breadth, Edley said: The nine undergraduate campuses offer 1,250 different courses. But there is also depth—if the cyber program’s administrators wanted to find “the most fabulous instructor for an introductory Chinese history course,” he said as an example, they would have nine campuses to choose from. “We will have the world’s largest intellectual smorgasbord from which to feast,” Edley declared.

-Los Angeles Times, July 15, 2010 by Larry Gordon
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-enroll-20100715,0,2160250.story

UC Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley, a leading advocate of online education at UC, said the proposal would help the university cut costs, gain revenue and expand access to students whose family or job responsibilities keep them from attending traditional classes. Edley promised that faculty would have control over the proposal but emphasized the importance of moving quickly. He called it “a question of how well we perform as an engine of opportunity in California and for the country.”

-San Francisco Chronicle, July 15, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/14/BAC61EEDI4.DTL

“It’s not where you stick a couple of camcorders in the lecture hall,” Edley said. “We’re talking about high production values. Discussions in desktop video conferencing. Chat rooms and discussion boards. We’d use social-networking software that I’d say our students are already addicted to.”

-The New York Times, July 7, 2010 by Christopher Edley Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/opinion/08edley.html?_r=2

The best booster shot for this recovery and the next would be to allow states to borrow from the Treasury during recessions. We did this for Wall Street and Detroit, fending off disaster. It’s even more important for states.

-CNBC, The Kudlow Report, July 9, 2010 Host Larry Kudlow
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232/?video=1541175369&play=1

States are undermining every federal attempt at stimulus because of the budget cuts they are making right now. If, instead of bailouts from the federal government, what we do is smooth the flow of federal funds to the state over time so that they can get today what they need to close their budget deficits—but then pay it back when the recovery continues—I think that’s a win-win for everybody. It’s not a bailout from federal taxpayers. It’s more like an advance on your paycheck.

Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2010 by Christopher Edley, Jr.
http://bit.ly/aQQRSJ

With the stroke of a pen, President Obama could do more for the economy than the second stimulus measure that’s going nowhere fast. He can create the good jobs our economy needs by using the power of federal contracting to reward employers that improve job standards. An executive order to encourage federal contractors to provide their workers with, among other things, a living wage, would require no legislation, no battle in Congress.

The Washington Post, June 3, 2010 by Perry Bacon Jr.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/03/AR2010060302523_pf.html

“We have had breakthroughs, but the obstacles are still there,” said Christopher Edley, who was special adviser to the president for the White House Initiative on Race in the Clinton administration and is now dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “The bench is weak. If you look at lower office levels or state legislatures, I think the picture is dramatically better, but we haven’t been able to bring enough people up from there.”