Uc Regents Coming Together Report: Rewriting History Together With Forgetting The Faculty (1/16/13)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
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President Yudof outlined his big online vision close the start of the Regents Meeting on Wednesday. He argued that since in addition to therefore many students are applying to the UC system, but in that location is non plenty coin or classes to enroll them, the organization should consider moving many of its high-enrollment gateway courses online. Yudof added that the academy is going to stimulate got to larn used to a higher student-to-faculty ratio for the foreseeable future, in addition to that nosotros must movement to a organization where students don’t merely memorize information, but rather they engage inwards a critical human relationship amongst novel knowledge.
Yudof stressed that the focus of the Online Pilot Program has never been on enrolling non-UC students, in addition to the media has gotten it incorrect on the failure of the UC programme to attract students. However, Yudof’s remarks conduct contradict UC’s ain previous statements regarding the demand to attract 3,000 non-UC students this twelvemonth to pay off the loan it made to itself.
There was a lot of rewriting of history going on throughout the meeting, in addition to it was unfortunate that no 1 at the tabular array corrected exactly about of these misrepresentations. Also, when the exterior class providers were making their presentations, they constantly bashed UC faculty past times contention that zippo has changed inwards our classrooms during the final 50 years, in addition to the professors demand to either rethink how they learn or exit of the way. Once again, no 1 defended the faculty or the lineament of teaching inwards the UC system.
Yudof announced that in that location volition last a Spring coming together amongst faculty to hash out the online programs, in addition to a novel laid of incentives volition last established to larn to a greater extent than professors to educate to a greater extent than nontraditional classes. The UC Provost added that 1 possible destination would last for every pupil to stimulate got at to the lowest degree 4 online courses during their get-go 2 years, but Yudof subsequently angrily insisted that no students would last forced to stimulate got online courses.
Governor Brown reiterated his betoken that the academy has to realize that it wants to a greater extent than coin from the nation than the nation tin deliver, in addition to therefore the UC organization has to honour a fashion to learn to a greater extent than students amongst less money. He subsequently added that it sounded similar the organization was headed inwards the right direction, in addition to he appeared to last pleased amongst the tenor of the conversation.
At 1 foreign moment, Regent Blum insisted that Dean Edley speak virtually the online program, in addition to Edley obliged past times taking off on a long riff dealing amongst the demand to laid a virtual campus for all of the qualified, under-represented students who can’t honour a location inwards the UC system. Like in addition to therefore much that was said during the day, Edley’s rhetoric sounded proficient until yous questioned the primary subject of the day, which was how tin the UC organization plough to online teaching to both relieve coin in addition to improve educational quality.
I tried to address these issues during my world comments, but I felt every bit though no 1 was actually paying attention. During a break, a TV reporter pulled me aside in addition to asked me to verbalize virtually why I loathe online education. I said I produce non loathe it, but I believe that it volition increase costs in addition to perhaps lower the lineament of our “better classes.” I likewise added that this whole tidings virtually online teaching allows the UC to avoid talking virtually the existent terms drivers inwards the system.
It should last clear from my study that the senate faculty stimulate got to larn to a greater extent than involved in addition to to a greater extent than song virtually defending their ain positions in addition to institution. One house for an intervention would last the Spring summit on online teaching that Yudof mentioned.
Yudof stressed that the focus of the Online Pilot Program has never been on enrolling non-UC students, in addition to the media has gotten it incorrect on the failure of the UC programme to attract students. However, Yudof’s remarks conduct contradict UC’s ain previous statements regarding the demand to attract 3,000 non-UC students this twelvemonth to pay off the loan it made to itself.
There was a lot of rewriting of history going on throughout the meeting, in addition to it was unfortunate that no 1 at the tabular array corrected exactly about of these misrepresentations. Also, when the exterior class providers were making their presentations, they constantly bashed UC faculty past times contention that zippo has changed inwards our classrooms during the final 50 years, in addition to the professors demand to either rethink how they learn or exit of the way. Once again, no 1 defended the faculty or the lineament of teaching inwards the UC system.
Yudof announced that in that location volition last a Spring coming together amongst faculty to hash out the online programs, in addition to a novel laid of incentives volition last established to larn to a greater extent than professors to educate to a greater extent than nontraditional classes. The UC Provost added that 1 possible destination would last for every pupil to stimulate got at to the lowest degree 4 online courses during their get-go 2 years, but Yudof subsequently angrily insisted that no students would last forced to stimulate got online courses.
Governor Brown reiterated his betoken that the academy has to realize that it wants to a greater extent than coin from the nation than the nation tin deliver, in addition to therefore the UC organization has to honour a fashion to learn to a greater extent than students amongst less money. He subsequently added that it sounded similar the organization was headed inwards the right direction, in addition to he appeared to last pleased amongst the tenor of the conversation.
At 1 foreign moment, Regent Blum insisted that Dean Edley speak virtually the online program, in addition to Edley obliged past times taking off on a long riff dealing amongst the demand to laid a virtual campus for all of the qualified, under-represented students who can’t honour a location inwards the UC system. Like in addition to therefore much that was said during the day, Edley’s rhetoric sounded proficient until yous questioned the primary subject of the day, which was how tin the UC organization plough to online teaching to both relieve coin in addition to improve educational quality.
I tried to address these issues during my world comments, but I felt every bit though no 1 was actually paying attention. During a break, a TV reporter pulled me aside in addition to asked me to verbalize virtually why I loathe online education. I said I produce non loathe it, but I believe that it volition increase costs in addition to perhaps lower the lineament of our “better classes.” I likewise added that this whole tidings virtually online teaching allows the UC to avoid talking virtually the existent terms drivers inwards the system.
It should last clear from my study that the senate faculty stimulate got to larn to a greater extent than involved in addition to to a greater extent than song virtually defending their ain positions in addition to institution. One house for an intervention would last the Spring summit on online teaching that Yudof mentioned.