Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are julian guthrie, San Francisco chronicle reporter. Cara swisher, editor of all things digital. And kque education reporter. Its that time of the year when students go back to school. But for one top education official, its time to exit. University of california president mark uedoff leaves his post after five years on the job. Under his tenure the tencampus system saw tuition nearly double. But he also reformed ucs pension plan and expanded Financial Aid. This week reporting on the impending departure what do you think his legacy will be . I think it depends who you talk to. Thats the interesting part about him when is you talk to administrators, regents, students, some students, theyll say, you know, he really helped lowincome students get access to the uc system. If its called a blue and gold opportunity plan. And so basically, families that earned 80,000 and below, youve got
Good evening. Welcome to this week in Northern California. Joining me for insight and analysis of the news are julian guthrie, San Francisco chronicle reporter. Cara swisher, editor of all things digital. And kque education reporter. Its that time of the year when students go back to school. But for one top education official, its time to exit. University of california president mark uedoff leaves his post after five years on the job. Under his tenure the tencampus system saw tuition nearly double. But he also reformed ucs pension plan and expanded Financial Aid. This week reporting on the impending departure what do you think his legacy will be . I think it depends who you talk to. Thats the interesting part about him when is you talk to administrators, regents, students, some students, theyll say, you know, he really helped lowincome students get access to the uc system. If its called a blue and gold opportunity plan. And so basically, families that earned 80,000 and below, youve got
Good evening. Im Judy Woodruff. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff u. S. And russian negotiators worked into the night in geneva, on putting syrias chemical weapons under international control. One u. S. Official reported the two sides were at a pivotal point. Secretary of state john kerry said the meetings with his russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, were constructive. He said the outcome may determine if theres any hope for actual peace talks.
Essentially part of the tenderloin. We thought there were a lot of opportunities there. We know something about making urban environments vital. Given the present political move, people are open to new ideas. That is true across the country. Our burners are being asked to come into centers of various cities for aetna. Right now. Whehowever, as soon as things gt better, they are escorted out. But we might begin to break that cycle. It is just wonderful to walk out on the street and see the world walking by. Are you giving the twitter deal . Yes, we are. We just founded a new nonprofit. Black rock arts foundation, which is dedicated to spreading interactive, a collaborative art throughout the world. Now we have founded but we call the burning and project. What we call the burning man project. It eventually leads to the event itself. This is a wonderful opportunity. The thing about burning man, when you look at the variety of people that go there, when you look at this environment, where
Demographic that you can think of, every category. So you have to, potentially, encyclopedic knowledge assembled at this place. And the natural way to learn is projectbased. Scholarship is fine, academic models can be useful for certain things, but human beings tend to learn by engaging in project based learning. If you look at the desert well, here is an example. I was on a tour for the black rock arts foundation. We went to various studios around the area where artwork was getting ready for la playa. All of the big ones involving armies of people with the various skills. It takes her attacker, a traditional art, overlapping fields of knowledge takes tech, traditional art, overlapping fields of knowledge. Even people who were not elected to do something here, they joined other people on their project. Those of you who are familiar with the world of commercial art, you must know how deeply weird that is. In order to make it any agent anyone will tell you at a gallery, the way to make m