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.”

KQED Forum, May 20, 2010 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201005200900

Edley: It’s an idea, it’s a vision, it’s something that I think we should definitely move toward but carefully because we obviously don’t want to sacrifice quality in any way. My principal motivation is access; it’s the social justice component of it…. And I think we really need to explore online technology as a way to do it not just for UC eligible students within California, whom we might not otherwise be able to serve, but ultimately for similarly qualified, similarly prepared students in Kentucky, in Kuala Lumpur.

Kutz: I’m sure Chris Edley would agree with this. It’s not simply about certifying competence. It’s about leading somebody into the kind of education process that really takes place in two dimensions: one is the dimension between the student and the instructor, and involves quite a lot of back and forth between student and instructor; and the second, and I think equally important, is the interaction among the students…. The online courses … do miss that component to a certain degree.

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’.”

The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 23, 2010 by Josh Keller
http://bit.ly/9CGGb9 (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“There’s a political problem,” said Christopher L. Kutz, chair of the Berkeley campus’s Academic Senate. “In order to have credibility with the voters, we need to show that we’re thinking seriously, that we know it’s a problem.”

“We need some serious dental implants for this if we’re going to make any progress,” Mr. Edley said. “I don’t know any significant organization that defines or achieves budgetary priorities from the bottom up, so that poses a challenge for a university that very much believes that academics have to be focused on and delivered from the bottom up. We’re not there yet.”

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.”

Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2010 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-goodwin-liu9-2010mar09,0,1301596.story

“Given the electrically charged climate in Washington, any nominee can become a lightning rod,” said Christopher Edley Jr., dean of Berkeley’s law school. “On the merits, he should be noncontroversial. But the reality will be a roll of the dice.”

Yoo said of Liu’s nomination to the 9th Circuit that “he’s not someone a Republican president would pick, but for a Democratic nominee, he’s a very good choice.”

-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.”

San Francisco Chronicle, February 23, 2010 by Debra J. Saunders
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/23/EDVU1C5CBO.DTL&type=printable

“They never actually followed the standards they’re charged with keeping,” Yoo told me—which is odd, because holding lawyers to professional standards is “all this office does.”

UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley Jr., who … has resisted the calls for ideological cleansing of the law-school faculty in favor of academic freedom.…said in a statement last week, “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. That’s why we are here.”