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UC LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE COURSES Courses are already available to UC students and will open to the public in Spring 2013. By SARAH MOON • Contributing Writer
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niversity of California campuses have launched a new program that will allow students to receive UC credit through online courses. The program, UC Online, is available to all UC students now and to a wider audience this spring. The UC Office of the President hosted a teleconference regarding UC Online last Wednesday, Oct. 31. According to interim Director of UC Online Education and UC Davis faculty member Keith Williams, the first online course, Pre-calculus, was offered at UC Merced in Spring 2012. Five more courses had been made available by the end of spring: three at UCLA, one at UC Santa Cruz and one at UC Davis. Last summer UC Irvine offered another four new courses, prep for general chemistry, classical physics, and preparatory calculus 1A and 1B. Four new courses FEATURES are being offered this fall quarter. UC Berkeley is offering “Beauty and Joy of A closer Computing and Introduction to Information, UCSB is offering Maps and Spatial look at Reasoning” and UCR is offering “Dance: Cultures and Contexts.” the value A total of about 1,700 UC students, not including students from UCSD, have of online taken UC Online classes so far. UC online is currently developing 35 new courses. By the Spring 2013 quarter, UC Online plans to enroll non-matriculated stueducation dents from outside the UC system. UC Online is currently working with the faculty PAGE 6 and departments to provide these students with information regarding offered courses, and determine how many students can enroll in the program. “We hope this will be a way to enhance access to UCs by giving these students a chance to enroll,” Williams said. Williams said the program will offer a diverse selection of courses with an emphasis on lower division high-enrollment courses that are usually impacted and limited on campus. “The hope is that by offering some of these courses online, it will give students an opportunity to take a class that they’d otherwise have to wait a quarter or semester to get into,” Williams said. “That’s one of the founding principles that was based in this.” Each online class will use several learning elements and techniques. Many professors post See UC ONLINE, page 3
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Gov. Brown has vowed that he will uphold cuts to education if Prop. 30 fails in Tuesday’s election.
Black Student Union Will Move to Calif. Republicans Will New Office in Old Student Center Try to Block Trigger Cuts BY ZEV HURWITZ News Editor
BY DANIEL SONG Staff Writer UCSD has designated the space directly above the General Store in the Old Student Center as the location for its new Black Resource Center. University officials have already refurbished the site and will open it to students once they choose a director. The new space is meant to create a comfortable work environment for black students who as of Fall 2011 composed 1.9 percent of UCSD’s population. Additionally, the center will create a system that facilitates black students’ matriculation into higher
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education by providing access and retention programs for high school students and undergraduates. The resource center will have a library, tutoring resources for high school students and workshops for law school, medical school and other graduate programs. The newly appointed
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Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Linda Greene, will be responsible for allocating the proper resources and overseeing these programs. “It’s a resource center for all black See BSU, page 3
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Republicans in California’s State Assembly announced last week that they would try to stop trigger cuts to California’s public universities if Proposition 30 fails on Tuesday. Proposition 30’s failure would automatically cut $250 million to both the UC and CSU systems as well as additional cuts to California’s community colleges. UC tuition is expected to jump $2,400 in January 2013 if failed Proposition 30’s trigger cuts go into effect, and students could expect annual increases —potentially around 15 percent—for the next three years.
Assembly Minority Leader Connie Conway told Capital Public Radio Oct. 30 that while no specifics are yet available, Republicans in the legislature would try to find alternative ways to fill a budget hole that Prop. 30’s failure would create. “I’m not saying it’s gonna be easy, but that’s our job,” Conway said during a CPR broadcast. “We need to do some soul-searching and look around and figure out what we can do.” Gov. Jerry Brown has said that he will veto any attempt to block the trigger cuts — in doing so, he hopes to encourage more California voters to support the ballot measure, which raises income taxes on house-
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