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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Emilie Raguso, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97023\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/occupyfarmalbany.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-97023\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/occupyfarmalbany-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"About 100 activists marched Saturday onto a University Village lot in Albany that’s slated for development. Photo: Emilie Raguso\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 100 activists marched Saturday onto a University Village lot in Albany that’s slated for development. (Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:42 p.m. \u003c/strong>A UC Berkeley spokeswoman said four people were arrested Monday as the university resumed control of land in Albany’s University Village that had been taken over by Occupy the Farm activists who said they want to turn the land into an urban farm. Claire Holmes, a UC Berkeley associate vice chancellor who handles communications and public affairs, said one person was arrested early in the morning; two were arrested while interfering with the plow; and the fourth was reported to be interfering with police activities. Holmes identified the four as Erik Eisenberg, Ian Saxton, David Grefrath and Brooke Marino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eisenberg and Saxton were listed as in custody at the Berkeley Jail by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department and scheduled for arraignment Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Wiley W. Manuel Courthouse in downtown Oakland. Both were being held on bail of $7,500. Grefrath and Marino were not listed as in custody as of 1:50 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:25 p.m. \u003c/strong>Occupy the Farm has announced plans on Twitter for a “\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/occupyfarm/status/334017859271409665\">reconvergence\u003c/a>” Monday at 5 p.m. at San Pablo Avenue and Monroe Street: “We didn’t stop the tractor, but they can’t stop us!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Police Department arrested several people Monday morning in Albany after activists marched onto a plot of land adjacent to San Pablo Avenue over the weekend with the goal to occupy the parcel and turn it into an urban farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a statement released by UC: “At approximately 4:30 a.m. Monday, 20 people were asked to leave the mixed-use development site in Albany or face arrest. The early-morning group left voluntarily with the exception of one individual who was arrested for trespassing and interfering with the police. A few hours later, as the university began to clear the field, two other individuals were arrested for the same charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 10 a.m., the university also used tractors to plow under the crops that were planted over the weekend. Activists said on Twitter that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/occupyfarm/status/333986956411281408\">two people were arrested\u003c/a> while trying to block the path of the tractor through the field. Activists released a statement Monday calling the police intervention “\u003ca href=\"http://occupythefarm.org/uc-police-make-early-morning-raid-on-gill-tract-public-farm/\">unnecessary\u003c/a>,” because they had been planning to “de-camp” later in the day, with \u003ca href=\"http://occupythefarm.org/uc-police-make-early-morning-raid-on-gill-tract-public-farm/\">continuing plans to care for their newly planted crops\u003c/a>. \u003c!--more-->The group, which calls itself \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/occupy-the-farm/\">Occupy the Farm\u003c/a>, took over the parcel of land Saturday, clearing the area of tall weeds and planting vegetables. The lot was partially enclosed by a fence but open in many places to easy access, despite numerous “No Trespassing” signs in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-97018\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/BerkeleysideLOGOfinal.gif\" alt=\"BerkeleysideLOGOfinal\" width=\"160\" height=\"44\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Claire Holmes, a UC Berkeley spokeswoman, said the parcel had not been used as farmland for more than 70 years. The university has been working for five years with the city of Albany to develop the land into a mixed-use project that’s set to include senior housing south of Monroe and a grocery store north of Monroe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police presence over the weekend was minimal, with officers giving regular admonitions to activists that they were trespassing and could face arrest if they refused to leave. Police recorded many of the farming activities but otherwise allowed the group’s plans to proceed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists, who say the land should be protected as open space and used for a community farm, weeded the property, tilled the soil and brought in farming equipment and hay bales to prepare rows for seedlings. An estimated 40-50 camped at the site overnight Saturday, but the group said its plans included just a short-term occupation over the weekend to set up the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The university chose to remove the trespassers in a safe situation that would cause the least disruption to the community,” said Holmes on Monday. The land the activists cleared and planted over the weekend is the former site of World War II barracks and student housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police will continue to monitor the area throughout Monday morning as members of the group remove their personal items and planting materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the same group occupied a nearby parcel, southwest of Buchanan Street and San Pablo Avenue, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/05/10/urban-farmers-plan-short-form-gill-tract-occupation/www.berkeleyside.com/tag/gill-tract/\">last year in April for several weeks\u003c/a>. (Read \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/gill-tract/\">prior Berkeleyside coverage\u003c/a> of the 2012 occupation.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, about 15 Albany residents staged a counter-protest asking occupiers to leave and saying that the small community, of less than 2 square miles, is not the place for a large-scale farm. The counter-protesters, all of whom were Albany residents, carried signs and rode bicycles around San Pablo, University Village and Buchanan to communicate their message to activists and members of the media in attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holmes said Sunday that the university had received multiple letters from residents in Albany last week “who were basically saying to us: ‘Please don’t let this happen again. We really don’t want these people in our city. We hope that you will take swift action to not have an occupation happen. That’s the predominant sentiment from the people who have been in touch with the university.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday, the level of enthusiasm among activists was high. Some activists played music and sang, as others worked the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Occupy the Farm spokesman Matthew McHale said the land should be protected as an educational resource “not only as a place to grow food, but also as a local food system resource for education to educate kids and get them energized and engaged, and as a place for UC to do much-needed research into urban agriculture.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley last year said it plans to create an urban farming program that’s centered in part at the Gill Tract agricultural research field, just north of another fenced area near Monroe on the other side of Village Creek. 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Activists said on Twitter that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/occupyfarm/status/333986956411281408\">two people were arrested\u003c/a> while trying to block the path of the tractor through the field. Activists released a statement Monday calling the police intervention “\u003ca href=\"http://occupythefarm.org/uc-police-make-early-morning-raid-on-gill-tract-public-farm/\">unnecessary\u003c/a>,” because they had been planning to “de-camp” later in the day, with \u003ca href=\"http://occupythefarm.org/uc-police-make-early-morning-raid-on-gill-tract-public-farm/\">continuing plans to care for their newly planted crops\u003c/a>. \u003c!--more-->The group, which calls itself \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/tag/occupy-the-farm/\">Occupy the Farm\u003c/a>, took over the parcel of land Saturday, clearing the area of tall weeds and planting vegetables. 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But after a few classes run by the \u003ca href=\"http://cbe.ucsf.edu/cbe/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrepreneurship Center at UCSF\u003c/a>, he has a new goal: launch a biotech startup with an app that will help diabetics track their health and make lifestyle choices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_95637\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/29/biotech-entrepreneurship/biotech-photo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95637\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-95637 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/Biotech-Photo-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"(Sam Harnett/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Hayes (foreground) is working with Charles Noble (background) at QB3. 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Schools are scrambling to help students turn their lab work into the next big thing commercially in biotech. While this emphasis on goal-oriented, product-driven research might resonate with investors, it grates on those who advocate for pure research and science for science’s sake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is Peter Walter, whose cell biology lab is located on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus. His name appears on well over 100 publications. He has co-authored “Molecular Biology of the Cell,” a widely used textbook, has secured dozens of grants, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.news-medical.net/news/20111226/UCSF-professor-receives-2012-Paul-Ehrlich-and-Ludwig-Darmstaedter-Prize.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the 2012 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize\u003c/a> for outstanding achievements in the field of cell biology. Pharmaceutical firms have used research from his lab to create products—but those are never his focus, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->“We’re starting from a basis of discovery,” he said. “I want to understand how cells work. I really love the process of figuring out how the cell is more than a bag of chemicals.” Walter characterizes his approach as “walking along the serendipitous path of discovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not exactly the elevator pitch that potential investors would want to hear. Stephanie Marrus, on the other hand, is all business. She directs the entrepreneurship center and plans to expand it with a grant from the National Science Foundation. “The goal,” she said, “is to make us the No. 1 entrepreneurship center for life sciences and health in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’ll have plenty of competition. MIT, Purdue and a host of other universities also have entrepreneurship centers. While places such as UC Irvine and Dartmouth offer joint business/medical degrees. UCSF does have one big advantage: location. The Mission Bay campus, just south of the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark, is surrounded by venture capitalists, biotech startups and big pharmaceutical companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biotech analyst Scott Morrison is U.S. life sciences director at Ernst&Young. He said the only place that rivals the concentration of biotech players in the Bay Area is Boston, but that it can’t draw on the sheer wealth and long-standing startup culture of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A more “sober” industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of UCSF’s Entrepreneurship Center, students interact directly with industry members and venture capitalists. 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And to have a chance at any initial investment, he said, startups need to have a commercial focus and a solid business plan from the very start. Only after they’ve thoroughly proved the viability of the science and the idea will an investor go all in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>University-business collaborations: The future of biotech?\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Universities make perfect proving grounds for young companies. The science is cutting edge. The academic body can vet ideas. And with the abundance of students and postdocs available, an inexpensive skilled labor force exists. That’s why, Morrison said, companies are investing in schools more than ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF has more than 15 research collaborations with Genentech and an $85 million partnership with Pfizer. At universities across the country, multiyear partnerships like these are replacing traditional one-time grants for individual labs and research projects. Morrison said this kind of deep, ongoing collaboration between academia and industry is the future of biotech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once students have created a business plan through UCSF’s Entrepreneurship Center, they can test out the science at the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.qb3.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QB3\u003c/a>, a state-sponsored program that provides private incubator lab space for fledgling companies at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UCSF. Douglas Crawford is the associate director of QB3. Escorting me into a lab, he said we’re going “from the university sort of public space to now private company space. Any cool wind you feel is the breath of capitalism blowing through the university.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biotech companies require much more infrastructure than those in the tech space. While some legendary tech giants have started in a trailer or private residence, you’re not going to get very far playing around with test tubes in your parents’ basement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At QB3, UCSF spinoff companies are provided everything they need to get started: industrial refrigerators to store test samples, giant agitators to mix chemical compounds, certified lab space. Even more important, they have access to UCSF’s expensive equipment and skilled technicians. Just a few doors down from the incubator labs, there are half-million-dollar microscopes, a DNA sequencer and a 3D printer that can custom-make objects out of plastic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The startups at QB3 are all trying to develop marketable products. One team is developing a tool for people to analyze the DNA of their own gut bacteria. Charles Noble, a former postdoc at UCSF, is working with his team on a high-tech drug delivery system. It uses nanoparticles to encapsulate drugs and direct them to certain parts of the body. He and his team hope all the connections at UCSF will help them find an industry partner and launch a final product. He says they just don’t have the resources to do all the clinical trials themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>UCSF: A long history with biotech\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF has always had an involved relationship with the biotech industry. The 10-year-old Mission Bay campus owes much of its rapid construction to a $200 million intellectual property lawsuit against Genentech. The company settled with UCSF in 1999 to resolve a dispute over Protropin, a drug to treat dwarfism that helped turned Genentech into a biotech giant. Money from the settlement led to the creation of Genentech Hall, the central building at Mission Bay. Since then, pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer, Celgene, and Fibrogen have set up offices in the neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can read the industry connections at UCSF as much in the bios of the administration as on the plaques on the buildings. The current chancellor, Susan Desmond-Hellmann, is the former president of product development at Genentech. (She’s also a board member at Facebook). Desmond-Hellmann has advocated for the push at UCSF toward commercialization and entrepreneurship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This whole focus on product-driven research might resonate with investors but it’s a disturbing trend for Walter, the cell biologist. Walter said the greatest advancements in science have come from basic research. Breakthroughs such as penicillin and X-rays resulted largely from pure scientific discovery, not some postdoc trying to make a buck with a smart phone app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be very, very useful for a lot of emphasis to be put on on promoting basic discovery,” he said, “to make sure the postdocs remember why they got into this business in the first place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for many new graduate students now, one of the reasons they are getting into the life science business \u003cem>is\u003c/em> business.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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I really love the process of figuring out how the cell is more than a bag of chemicals.” Walter characterizes his approach as “walking along the serendipitous path of discovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not exactly the elevator pitch that potential investors would want to hear. Stephanie Marrus, on the other hand, is all business. She directs the entrepreneurship center and plans to expand it with a grant from the National Science Foundation. “The goal,” she said, “is to make us the No. 1 entrepreneurship center for life sciences and health in the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’ll have plenty of competition. MIT, Purdue and a host of other universities also have entrepreneurship centers. While places such as UC Irvine and Dartmouth offer joint business/medical degrees. UCSF does have one big advantage: location. The Mission Bay campus, just south of the San Francisco Giants’ ballpark, is surrounded by venture capitalists, biotech startups and big pharmaceutical companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biotech analyst Scott Morrison is U.S. life sciences director at Ernst&Young. He said the only place that rivals the concentration of biotech players in the Bay Area is Boston, but that it can’t draw on the sheer wealth and long-standing startup culture of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A more “sober” industry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of UCSF’s Entrepreneurship Center, students interact directly with industry members and venture capitalists. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/04/23/richmond-tales-fest-turns-page-on-literacy-and-healthy-living/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-95408\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PhotoWeek130426healthfair.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130426healthfair\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>Jose Fernandez, 6, left, and Samantha Tovar, 6, hula-hoop prior to the start of the fifth annual \u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/2013/04/23/richmond-tales-fest-turns-page-on-literacy-and-healthy-living/\">Richmond Tales Fest\u003c/a>: An Afternoon of Family Literacy and Healthy Living. (Tyler Orsburn/\u003ca href=\"http://richmondconfidential.org/\">Richmond Confidential\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/04/22/post-office-says-it-will-sell-its-downtown-berkeley-building/\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-95409\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PhotoWeek130426postoffice.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130426postoffice\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>On April 22, the U.S. Postal Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/04/22/post-office-says-it-will-sell-its-downtown-berkeley-building/\">confirmed it would sell its historic downtown Berkeley building\u003c/a> at 2000 Allston Way and relocate to another location nearby. This happened despite an appeal made in March by the Berkeley City Council that USPS wait a year before making a final decision on the relocation, and vocal opposition from a group of local residents. The move is prompted by financial necessity, said USPS. (Keoki Seu/\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-95410\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/PhotoWeek130426solarplane.jpg\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130426solarplane\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">Members of the public were invited to see the first \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/23/where-and-when-to-catch-a-glimpse-of-first-night-flying-solar-plane-today/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar-powered airplane\u003c/a>, Solar Impulse, at a public open house event at Moffett Field in Mountain View on Saturday, April 20. More than 1,000 people showed up to hear from Solar Impulse pilot André Borschberg and chairman Bertrand Piccard. The solar plane is scheduled to depart from Moffett on its Across America tour on May 1. 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"content": "\u003cp>Sometimes success is not enough. Students at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.aimschools.org/\">American Indian Model Schools \u003c/a>have consistently outperformed most of their peers nationwide. But on Sunday night parents and board members were groping for a way to keep the schools' doors open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland school board voted on March 20 to revoke the schools' charter at the end of the year because of financial improprieties. At an emergency meeting Sunday night, parents, teachers and administrators tried to figure out how they could effectively appeal the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cstrong>American Indian Model Schools founder Ben Chavis discussed his philosophy in an excerpt from the documentary \"Flunked:\"\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/6dsmrXxLoMw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone acknowledges that the three schools (one elementary and middle, one middle and one high school) have gotten impressive results. For example, in the 2011-2012 school year, 100 percent of the high school's 11th-graders scored \"proficient/advanced\" on one of the math sections of the California Standards Test. 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Instead, the board fired interim director Sylvester Hodges and Jennifer Avelino, head administrator at one of the schools, AIPCS II, the newspaper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The meeting Sunday ended without resolution because so many board members left that the board couldn't act. The schools faces a deadline of April 18 to appeal the revocation of the charter, said the Tribune.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Appeals could go to the Alameda County Board of Education and the state Board of Education, according to the Chronicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How have the schools gotten such impressive results in the midst of such controversy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools' own website credits a back-to-basics curriculum that emphasizes hard work and discipline and aims squarely at the curriculum covered by standardized tests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The schools offer no computers, music or arts, though some elements of art are incorporated into programs, the website says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brice Harris, the chancellor of California Community Colleges, emphasized in a press conference that it is important to put the data in context. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_22987133/california-community-colleges-students-losing-ground\">Oakland Tribune\u003c/a> explains:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The past five years have been rocky for the state's 112 colleges and the students who turned to them during the recession. As unemployment swelled, the system simultaneously saw soaring demand and $1.5 billion in state funding cuts, forcing its colleges to cut back on student services and classes. State universities also accepted fewer transfers during that time, another factor working against students.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>This new \"Student Scorecard\" database, compiled by the California Community Colleges' Chancellor's Office, shows data disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender and age as well as makes such comparisons as students prepared for college versus those who need to take remedial classes in math, language arts and the English language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Drilling down to this level of data helps schools figure out where to concentrate their efforts, said Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most surprising data?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If students need remediation, they have below a 50 percent chance of succeeding, where if they're ready to go to college, they have well above a 70 percent chance,\" Harris told KQED's Charla Bear. \"That's a pretty dramatic difference.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nonetheless, those unprepared students are hanging on for a third straight semester at even higher rates than their prepared peers, the \u003ca href=\"http://scorecard.cccco.edu/scorecardrates.aspx?CollegeID=000#home\">data show\u003c/a>, in a measure the scorecard dubs \"persistence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tamela Hawley, executive director of research and institutional effectiveness at the San Jose/Evergreen Community College District, told the Oakland Tribune that realizing how much these students want to succeed might encourage schools to help them through their remedial courses as quickly as possible so they can begin earning college credits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At its core, the chancellor's office intends the Student Scorecard to be an accountability tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Frankly, we'll be the most accountable system of higher ed in the country,\" Harris told Bear. \"I don't think there will be any other system in America that's as transparent as ours.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ranking: Bay Area Community Colleges Ranking By Completion Rate\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Percentage of degree and/or transfer-seeking students tracked for six years through 2011-12 who completed a degree, certificate or transfer-related outcome.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.google.com/fusiontables/embedviz?viz=GVIZ&t=TABLE&containerId=gviz_canvas&q=select+col0%2C+col1%2C+col2%2C+col3+from+15tW96STuxy553MCuty5oxXd96OnSCcHvdw8jBrg\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"yes\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There's the University of California, the California State University and California Community Colleges. Soon, there could be a fourth system of higher education -- the New University of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93215\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/?attachment_id=93215\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-93215\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-93215\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/04/RS4403_111939554-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"A bill in the California State Assembly proposes a fourth state university system. (iStockphoto)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bill in the California State Assembly proposes a fourth state university system. (iStockphoto)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The catch? It wouldn't offer classes. It wouldn't charge tuition. 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