A friendly profile of President Yudof appeared in Inside Higher Ed, complete with podcast:
http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/news/2010/07/02/yudof
Theme: His sense of humor gets him into trouble but critics should lighten up.
Of course, the Big Question is usually is there life after death? But we can’t answer that one here. The lesser question – Is there Twitter after retirement? – can be answered, at least in the case of former UC prez Mark Yudof. YES! Not surprisingly, Yudof stopped tweeting around the time he left the UC presidency. But then, in late December, came another tweet. It’s actually a link to a Harvard Business Review piece, and says: “Once you know your greater purpose, there are lots of roads that will take you there.” http://s.hbr.org/18NiGul [See https://twitter.com/mark_yudof] I always thought the…
The website California’s Capitol reports that UC-Davis and UC-Merced have applied to the FAA to have drones. http://www.californiascapitol.com/2013/10/californias-drone-applicants/ and https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/faa_coa_list-2012.pdf. Obviously, the rest of us will be falling behind in this technology. But at least we have Prof. Snodgrass who drones on and on, as former UC president Yudof once reminded us in his soliloquy on online higher ed:
Inside Higher Ed today is reporting on resistance to online courses at Rutgers. Blog readers who have followed the online ed/MOOC debates won’t see surprises except for one element: The effort to offer more graduate degree programs online at Rutgers University at New Brunswick hit a snag on Wednesday, as faculty members in the Graduate School voted to block new programs from being approved… Faculty members have to sign a separate contract with the university to create an online course, which Hughes said strips them of their intellectual property rights. A draft of the agreement states that “Due to the…
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In an interview with the Daily Californian, former UC president Mark Yudof seems to feel underappreciated: For the first time in five years, Mark Yudof will wake up Monday a free man. No longer will the outgoing UC president have to deal with angry accusations of screwing over students or unfairly bargaining with unions or ignoring the cries of protesters… The son of an electrician, Yudof completed his undergraduate education in just three years at the University of Pennsylvania and worked part time to pay for school, something he said has helped him better relate to the average worker. Many…
Today, the news media seem to be focused on the first day of school. No, not the students’ first day. Janet Napolitano’s. From the LA Times: Janet Napolitano begins her new job as University of California president Monday, promising to “listen and learn” about the many issues facing the sprawling 10-campus university system… During her first couple of weeks, she will review budgets and operations and meet with students, faculty, staff, campus chancellors, state elected officials and others, according to UC spokesman Steve Montiel. She will greet the headquarters staff at a reception Monday afternoon. Napolitano has stressed that “her…
