The Washington Post, May 16, 2010 by Christopher Edley, Jr.
http://bit.ly/8XUBtQ

At the Supreme Court level, it’s all about finding oracles for Olympus. While it’s frowned upon when judges fire spitballs at colleagues, what matters is intellectual horsepower, not office-chat charm. It is wisdom and analysis, not personal experiences. If a judge’s life is elite in the sense of excellence, that’s fine. In fact, that may be the point.

-The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 9, 2010 by Josh Keller and Marc Parry
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Crisis-U-of-California/65445/

“What I fear,” he said, “is that the coalition of the willing among frontline faculty who would like to pursue this idea will be stopped dead in their tracks by the bureaucracy.”

-The Huffington Post, May 12, 2010 by Anya Kamentz
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anya-kamenetz/u-of-california-resuscita_b_574184.html

“Somebody is going to figure out how to deliver online education for credit and for degrees in the quality sector—i.e., in the elite sector,” Christopher Edley Jr., dean at Berkeley’s law school, told the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Black Voice News, May 6, 2010 by Chris Levister
http://blackvoicenews.com/news/44381-uc-african-black-coalition-honors-gains-tackles-setbacks.html

“If I could repeal one ballot measure,” he says, “it would be Proposition 13,” the 1978 property- tax initiative that slashed revenues for the state’s public schools. Even if Prop. 209 were overturned, he explains, “we would still have enormous diversity challenges because the K-12 system is so broken.”

The New York Times, April 16, 2010 by Peter Baker
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/weekinreview/18baker.html

Christopher Edley Jr., an Obama adviser and dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, said it was a shame the two could not have at it one on one. “Televise this chief justice and this president on stage at the Kennedy Center for three hours talking about the role of government and the future of our polity,” Mr. Edley said. “This historic clash of intellectual titans would be the most powerful civics lesson since the Federalist Papers, and we could sure use it.”

U.S. News and World Report, April 15, 2010 by Jessica Rettig
http://bit.ly/afIAfc

Edley says that although tuition is rising swiftly at public law schools—especially in states where public funding has been gradually reduced—students are still willing to incur extra costs for a better education. “[Provided] we demonstrate that the tuition hikes are improving the experience in very apparent ways, from construction to faculty to research, they’re generally quite supportive and excited about our progress,” he says.

-San Jose Mercury News, March 24, 2010 by Lisa M. Krieger
http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_14741635?source=rss

“Budget discipline is a very difficult thing. Particularly in a crisis like this, there needs to be sufficient top-down leadership to get the job done. Nobody is going to volunteer to make the kinds of changes that are required,” said Edley. “We need to identify a couple of changes that are likely to prove very desirable, and focus on them.”

-Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2010 by Larry Gordon
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc-future24-2010mar24,0,4457597.story

One plan discussed Tuesday said UC should develop 40 basic online courses in a pilot program to help students graduate on time and cut costs. “I think the question is whether we are leaders or followers,” said commission member Christopher Edley Jr., dean of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school and a strong advocate of Internet education.

-The Daily Bruin, March 24, 2010 by Julienne Lauler, Kelly Zhou
http://www.dailybruin.com/articles/2010/3/24/hate-crimes-spark-regents-dialogue-campus-climate-/

According to Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and adviser to Yudof, there is hope for a bright future for the UC system if the proposed initiatives are implemented with transparency and accountability. “There’s a history of decades of failure to implement programs, so this is a challenge not only of thinking of things to do, but it is important also to get the implementation right,” Edley said.

-UC San Diego News Center, March 24, 2010 by Judy Piercey
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/03-24CampusClimate.asp
“This (addressing racism) is not rocket science.  This is harder than rocket science,” said Edley at today’s UC Board of Regents meeting.  “UC San Diego has pulled together a dizzying and quite effective list of initiatives.  They have done a great job and I give them a solid ‘A’.”

San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2010 by John Diaz
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/21/IN5T1C11R6.DTL&type=printable

“I think he has wonderful values, but at the end of the day, he’s not ideological,” said Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. “He’s pragmatic, and he understands the difference between law and politics. He understands that law is not just politics by another name.”

The New York Times, March 13, 2010 by Sam Dillon
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/education/14child.html

“I worry about retreating from the notion of quality education as a civil right,” Mr. Edley said. “N.C.L.B. had some good sticks in it to compel equity. I’m alarmed by the frequent references to ‘incentives,’ and the apparent intention to reduce the federal role in forcing compliance.”