Despite earlier warnings from professors and instructors that taking UC online would destroy the university’s good name and quality, several regents said they were convinced of just the opposite: that UC has the brainpower – and the motives – to develop the nation’s first highly selective, Web-based degree program for undergraduates. They largely agreed with the plan’s leader, UC Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley, that an online degree program could save UC money while expanding access to far-flung, tuition-paying students "from Kentucky to Kuala Lumpur."

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

Posted: July 15th, 2010, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.