Little Hoover Hearing On Higher Ed
Monday, June 16, 2008
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I volition hold upwards testifying on Tuesday, Feb 26 at the Little Hoover Commission’s populace hearing on issues facing California’s higher pedagogy system. The hearing is scheduled for ix a.m. on the campus of Long Beach City College, 4901 East Carson Street, Building T, Room 1100, Long Beach, California. According to the hearing agenda, “the Commission is interested inward exploring how institutions such every bit the University of California together with California State University tin command costs together with increment college affordability; the purpose faculty tin play inward increasing time-to- score completion acre maintaining character together with high standards; together with the evolution of online pedagogy together with the acquit upon that massive opened upwards online courses, or MOOCs, mightiness convey on costs together with score attainment.”
I convey been asked to evidence on the next issues: “The principal drivers of increased costs at the university, including sponsored research, graduate together with professional person education, the increment inward the number of administrators, together with athletics together with campus amenities; The impact, if any, on faculty together with potential faculty hiring from UC’s intended advertisement of UC Online Education; Whether online educational initiatives such every bit UC Online tin aid increment pupil access to classes, cutting the fourth dimension to score together with ultimately increment the number of graduates; Online education’s overall powerfulness to contain costs together with increment affordability for students aid a UC campus; How online pedagogy should hold upwards incorporated into UC; Other issues concerning the electrical current back upwards for increasing the exercise of online learning inward higher education.”
Here is the schedule for the hearing:
9:00 – 10:-00 a.m. Panel One: Student Aid together with Postsecondary Financing
David Longanecker, President, Western Commission for Higher Education
10:00 – 11:-00 a.m. Panel Two: Going Online: MOOCs together with Beyond
Daphne Koller, Co-founder, Coursera together with Professor, Stanford University Sebastian
Thrun, Co-founder, Udacity together with Former Professor, Stanford University
Dean Florez, President together with Chief Executive Officer, Twenty Million Minds Foundation
11:00 – 12:-00 p.m. Panel Three: Going Online: UC together with CSU
Keith R. Williams, Interim Director, UC Online Education together with Senior Lecturer, University of California, Davis
Ruth Claire Black, Executive Director, Cal State Online
Robert Samuels, President, University Council-American Federation of Teachers
together with Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 – 1:-00 p.m. Panel Four: The Role of the Faculty
Robert Powell, Chair, University of California Academic Senate together with Professor, University of California, Davis
Diana Guerin, Chair, California State University Academic Senate together with Professor, California State University, Fullerton.
The hearing is opened upwards to the public.
I convey been asked to evidence on the next issues: “The principal drivers of increased costs at the university, including sponsored research, graduate together with professional person education, the increment inward the number of administrators, together with athletics together with campus amenities; The impact, if any, on faculty together with potential faculty hiring from UC’s intended advertisement of UC Online Education; Whether online educational initiatives such every bit UC Online tin aid increment pupil access to classes, cutting the fourth dimension to score together with ultimately increment the number of graduates; Online education’s overall powerfulness to contain costs together with increment affordability for students aid a UC campus; How online pedagogy should hold upwards incorporated into UC; Other issues concerning the electrical current back upwards for increasing the exercise of online learning inward higher education.”
Here is the schedule for the hearing:
9:00 – 10:-00 a.m. Panel One: Student Aid together with Postsecondary Financing
David Longanecker, President, Western Commission for Higher Education
10:00 – 11:-00 a.m. Panel Two: Going Online: MOOCs together with Beyond
Daphne Koller, Co-founder, Coursera together with Professor, Stanford University Sebastian
Thrun, Co-founder, Udacity together with Former Professor, Stanford University
Dean Florez, President together with Chief Executive Officer, Twenty Million Minds Foundation
11:00 – 12:-00 p.m. Panel Three: Going Online: UC together with CSU
Keith R. Williams, Interim Director, UC Online Education together with Senior Lecturer, University of California, Davis
Ruth Claire Black, Executive Director, Cal State Online
Robert Samuels, President, University Council-American Federation of Teachers
together with Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles
12:00 – 1:-00 p.m. Panel Four: The Role of the Faculty
Robert Powell, Chair, University of California Academic Senate together with Professor, University of California, Davis
Diana Guerin, Chair, California State University Academic Senate together with Professor, California State University, Fullerton.
The hearing is opened upwards to the public.