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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_82475\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 211px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-82475\" title=\"university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/12/university-of-california-rebrands-itself-with-surfer-charm-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">UC's short-lived monogram\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In today's world, the success of a design can be influenced by three separate yet perhaps equally important groups: the designers who create visual brands; the online commenters who criticize them; and the reporters who write about the controversies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or rather, this is one story. And it opens with the deceased:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California's controversial monogram.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, UC officials \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/12/14/uc-suspends-use-of-new-logo/\">suspended\u003c/a> use of a new, streamlined monogram the school had created after it became the subject of intense criticism. Many thought the image was not a fitting replacement for the stately university seal, even though the university said the two were meant to coexist. Other common complaints were that the monogram was too corporate-looking, incomprehensible, and just plain ugly. An \u003ca href=\"http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Whole-Foods-Reviews-E422.htm\" target=\"_blank\">online petition\u003c/a> demanding that the university not use the monogram attracted more than 50,000 supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But who really killed the monogram? What created the controversy around the design, and why did the university feel it needed to respond? In the past few weeks a handful of analysts, pundits and reporters have looked back on the controversy and weighed in. The Jan. 1 episode of the KALW-produced, San Francisco-based design podcast \"\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-69-uc-logo\">99% Invisible\u003c/a>\" includes interviews from December with UC Creative Director Vanessa Correa and Christopher Simmons, a local designer and educator who has \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">blogged\u003c/a> about the dispute. (Simmons' blog post was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/That-odd-UC-logo-the-aftermath-4193190.php\">criticized\u003c/a> last week by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll.) \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's who they say are responsible for the demise of the monogram...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It was the media.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86015 \" title=\"uc_seal\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California seal.\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California seal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simmons notes in \"99% Invisible\" that news outlets often displayed the monogram next to the UC seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sort of strongly implied, I think to most people, and reasonably so, that the seal was the before and the monogram was the after,\" Simmons said. \"It sort of framed the conversation completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monogram was not intended to replace the seal, which UC Marketing and Communications Director Jason Simon described as signifying \"the prestige and tradition of the university itself.\" The seal was to continue to appear on UC diplomas and correspondence, while the monogram was to be used in marketing and online recruitment campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we need to have the full weight and gravitas of the university behind a budget book or behind a proclamation by the president, or whatever that is, that seal gives us that gravitas,\" Correa said in \"99% Invisible.\" \"But we don't always want that gravitas. That gravitas has a place in communication. It's like having a tuxedo and being forced to wear it every single day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many believed that UC was throwing the tuxedo in the trash, and that inflamed opinions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The long-standing UC seal has integrity and meaning and represents a philosophy and a tradition of excellence, the unwavering pursuit of new knowledge, creativity and enlightenment for the betterment of humanity. The proposed new 'seal' is not a seal,\" wrote Santa Maria resident Leslie Campbell in a comment on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/132455383578388\">NPR Facebook page\u003c/a>. \"It represents nothing, not even good design/art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his blog post, Simmons also criticized the media and others for not including more context in their descriptions of the monogram and its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What challenges is the UC system facing? What is their long-term plan? What are other institutions doing? What is the assessment of the current identity? What audiences are they trying to reach? These are critical considerations that no doubt precipitated and drove the design process. But throughout this controversy, no one wrote about the strategy behind the new identity. In fact, no one wrote about the identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jon Carroll in his Chronicle column took issue with Simmons' complaints...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, a word of advice: The phrase \"no one wrote about\" is, in this Internet age, inevitably untrue. Somebody writes on every side of every issue... This very newspaper, for instance, in its news story on the issue, quoted university officials with regard to what the thinking was behind the new branding campaign. So did other places. Perhaps the story was not covered the way Simmons would have covered it, but the issues he brings up were discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Simmons also added that UC officials may have helped create some of the confusion surrounding the monogram. Which brings us to the second suspect in the monogram's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. It was the UC designers and university officials.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/53530934\">video\u003c/a> created to explain the inspiration for the monogram shows a hand wiping away most of the seal. The few elements of the seal that remain are used to create the new monogram. This may have helped turn many in the public against the monogram, Simmons writes \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">in his blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regardless of intent, interpreting this symbolism as sweeping away the old in favor of the new is a fair inference, especially absent the context of the more explicit guidelines. Anyone already incensed by the perceived abandonment of the traditional seal would only have his or her fears confirmed by watching this video.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/53530934\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC outlets also may have been viewed as dismissive when responding to complaints. A \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/universityofcalifornia/posts/10151133754456923\">post\u003c/a> about the controversy over the monogram on the UC Facebook page states, in part, \"It's not replacing anything. There wasn't a logo before, and the UC seal isn't going anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" episode, reporter Cyrus Farivar takes one of his concerns about the monogram design to UC's Correa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The first time I saw the logo I immediately thought of a computer icon of something loading,\" Farivar said. Correa said the color choices may have not been the best. \"This particular color combination is one that really pops out that loader bar reference in a way that is, again, I mean, very unfortunate.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Correa's comments in the episode lay the blame on the third suspect in this case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. It was those who criticized the monogram online.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It was the use of the rhetoric of democracy for the tyranny of the minority,\" Correa said, when describing the controversy over the monogram. \"We live in a time when everyone feels that their opinion matters. And the reality is that not all opinions are equal... When it comes to, for example, physics, my voice is not the same as Stephen Hawking's, nor should it be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Aesthetics is a very easy target because no one understands how aesthetics works and they feel that subjective opinion is the rule of the day,\" she noted. \"I would hope that people think about design in the way that one should be thinking about design rather than assuming that purely subjective response to one thing badly posted on an Internet platform is enough to base an entire judgement on.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We wanted to follow up on the podcast with Correa and contacted the university. A spokesperson said nothing has changed since it issued a \u003ca href=\"http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/28817\">statement\u003c/a> by Daniel M. Dooley, the university's senior vice president for external relations, announcing that use of the logo had been suspended...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In due course, we will re-evaluate this element of the visual identity system. My hope going forward is that the passion exhibited for the traditional seal can be redirected toward a broader advocacy for the University of California. For it is only with robust support from the citizens of this state that the university will be able to serve future generations of Californians as well as it has those of the past.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the \"99% Invisible\" interview, Correa said she felt some of the frustration expressed at the monogram had nothing to do with the design.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has become a very simple way to express a lot of other frustrations about the university,\" she said. \"I mean, I've received that from a lot of different people. They are frustrated because they feel the administration is inaccessible. They're frustrated because their tuition is going up... they're frustrated by the privatization of the university.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Correa also said the monogram was never given a chance to grow as a brand and succeed. It was killed before it could take on any real significance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You build the meaning,\" she said. \"That's what building a brand is ... The same thing [goes for the logo for] Apple. Can you imagine, I mean, it's an apple. This is a computer company, why do you have an apple? Is this a grocery store?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The meaning is not baked in,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can hear more of Correa's comments in the \"\u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/roman-mars/99-invisible-69-uc-logo\" target=\"_blank\">99% Invisible\u003c/a>\" episode below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F73204012&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=000000\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Now you've read and heard the evidence. Who do you think is responsible for the demise of the UC logo? Leave a comment at the bottom of this post and let us know what you think and why.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Simmons' blog post was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/carroll/article/That-odd-UC-logo-the-aftermath-4193190.php\">criticized\u003c/a> last week by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll.) \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's who they say are responsible for the demise of the monogram...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. It was the media.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86015\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 210px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86015 \" title=\"uc_seal\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/uc_seal-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"The University of California seal.\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The University of California seal.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simmons notes in \"99% Invisible\" that news outlets often displayed the monogram next to the UC seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It sort of strongly implied, I think to most people, and reasonably so, that the seal was the before and the monogram was the after,\" Simmons said. \"It sort of framed the conversation completely wrong.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The monogram was not intended to replace the seal, which UC Marketing and Communications Director Jason Simon described as signifying \"the prestige and tradition of the university itself.\" The seal was to continue to appear on UC diplomas and correspondence, while the monogram was to be used in marketing and online recruitment campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we need to have the full weight and gravitas of the university behind a budget book or behind a proclamation by the president, or whatever that is, that seal gives us that gravitas,\" Correa said in \"99% Invisible.\" \"But we don't always want that gravitas. That gravitas has a place in communication. It's like having a tuxedo and being forced to wear it every single day.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, many believed that UC was throwing the tuxedo in the trash, and that inflamed opinions online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The long-standing UC seal has integrity and meaning and represents a philosophy and a tradition of excellence, the unwavering pursuit of new knowledge, creativity and enlightenment for the betterment of humanity. The proposed new 'seal' is not a seal,\" wrote Santa Maria resident Leslie Campbell in a comment on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NPR/posts/132455383578388\">NPR Facebook page\u003c/a>. \"It represents nothing, not even good design/art.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his blog post, Simmons also criticized the media and others for not including more context in their descriptions of the monogram and its creation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>What challenges is the UC system facing? What is their long-term plan? What are other institutions doing? What is the assessment of the current identity? What audiences are they trying to reach? These are critical considerations that no doubt precipitated and drove the design process. But throughout this controversy, no one wrote about the strategy behind the new identity. In fact, no one wrote about the identity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Jon Carroll in his Chronicle column took issue with Simmons' complaints...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>First, a word of advice: The phrase \"no one wrote about\" is, in this Internet age, inevitably untrue. Somebody writes on every side of every issue... This very newspaper, for instance, in its news story on the issue, quoted university officials with regard to what the thinking was behind the new branding campaign. So did other places. Perhaps the story was not covered the way Simmons would have covered it, but the issues he brings up were discussed.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Simmons also added that UC officials may have helped create some of the confusion surrounding the monogram. Which brings us to the second suspect in the monogram's death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. It was the UC designers and university officials.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC \u003ca href=\"http://vimeo.com/53530934\">video\u003c/a> created to explain the inspiration for the monogram shows a hand wiping away most of the seal. The few elements of the seal that remain are used to create the new monogram. This may have helped turn many in the public against the monogram, Simmons writes \u003ca href=\"http://www.aiga.org/the-uc-logo-controversy/\">in his blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Regardless of intent, interpreting this symbolism as sweeping away the old in favor of the new is a fair inference, especially absent the context of the more explicit guidelines. Anyone already incensed by the perceived abandonment of the traditional seal would only have his or her fears confirmed by watching this video.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe src=\"http://player.vimeo.com/video/53530934\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC outlets also may have been viewed as dismissive when responding to complaints. 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"content": "\u003cp>Citing health concerns, University of California President Mark Yudof on Friday announced he is leaving the job at the end of the academic year and will return to teaching law on the Berkeley campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_86317\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 199px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Mark-Yudof-courtesy-of-UC.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-86317\" title=\"Mark Yudof courtesy of UC\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/01/Mark-Yudof-courtesy-of-UC-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark Yudof (University of California)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yudof took the helm of the 10-campus system on June 16, 2008, as it faced budget cutbacks triggered by the nationwide recession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He campaigned vigorously to restore the budget, but came under criticism from student groups for tuition hikes. One of his responses was the \u003ca href=\"http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/paying-for-uc/financial-aid/grants/blue-gold/index.html\">Blue and Gold Opportunity Plan \u003c/a>that guarantees student can attend the system for free if their families earn less than $80,000 a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also under his tenure the university launched \u003ca href=\"http://youcan.universityofcalifornia.edu/\">Project You Can\u003c/a>, a fundraising campaign in which the money goes directly to students. In June 2012, the project announced it was half way to its goal of raising $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University said it would form a search committee to replace Yudof, who earns an annual base salary of $591,084.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At the time of his appointment in 2008, the salary was below the median salary ($644,900) of leaders of similar public and private universities used by the California Postsecondary Education Commission for comparison purposes,\" according to a university news release.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Deborah Solomon of \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/magazine/27fob-q4-t.html?_r=0\">The New York Times \u003c/a>asked if university presidents shouldn't make less than the $400,000 a year earned by the president of the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Will you throw in Air Force One and the White House?\" Yudoff responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudoof issued the following statement about his retirement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">I have decided to bring to a close my tenure as President of the University of California, effective August 31, 2013. While the decision is my own, the moment comes with a mixture of emotions. For a transplant from Texas, by way of Philadelphia and Minnesota, every day at the University of California has brought new wonders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">UC remains the premier public university system in the world, and I was both honored and humbled to serve as its president for what has been nearly five years now. I will miss my daily interactions across the system with so many dedicated, capable, and intellectually stimulating people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Over the past few months, however, and after careful consultation with my family, it has become clear to me that the time has come for me to step away and return to the teaching of law on the Berkeley campus. The prior 18 months brought a spate of taxing health issues. Though these challenges have been largely overcome, I feel it is time to make a change in my professional lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Beyond personal considerations, this also appears to be an apt time for the University to bring in fresh leadership. When I arrived in 2008, the economy had begun to unravel and state coffers were tumbling deep into the red. With its budget slashed, the University was presented with one of the most severe challenges in its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Now, it appears the storm has been weathered. We are not fully in the clear, but we are much closer than we were even a few months ago. I look forward to working closely in the months ahead with Governor Brown, Assembly Speaker Perez, Senate President Pro Tem Steinberg and other state leaders to ensure that the University is positioned to continue on this forward course, which ultimately will benefit all Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">It is important to note that we – members of the entire UC community—have made it through this rough passage with our fundamental attributes intact. We have preserved excellence in our academics, research and health care. We have kept our doors open to all worthy students, regardless of family income levels, embracing the Blue and Gold financial aid program for low and middle income students and raising more than $671 million through the Project You Can scholarship program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">Many, many people contributed to this remarkable achievement: employees, including tenured faculty, who accepted without complaint a furlough program that cut into their paychecks; students and their families, who endured rising tuition rates; administrators and staff, who worked with great vigor and creativity to carve out savings through improved efficiencies, and California voters, who finally agreed that the cuts needed to stop and brought relief last November by approving Proposition 30. I applaud and am thankful for all of these contributions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp align=\"left\">I also would be remiss not to express my gratitude to the Regents. Throughout, they have provided the leadership and unwavering support needed for the University to face down this crisis. I was privileged to serve under three gifted Board chairs: Richard Blum, Russell Gould, and Sherry Lansing. I will leave it to others to judge what difference my leadership made, if any, but I will say that I entered each day with a laser focus on preserving this great public treasure, not just in the present day, but for generations of Californians to come. And in the end, what matters most is what still remains: a vibrant public university system, the envy of the world, providing California with the beacon of hope and steady infusion of new thinking that are necessary for any society to flourish.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof's official biography:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mark G. Yudof was named the 19th president of the University of California on March 27, 2008, and took office June 16, 2008. He leads a university system with 10 campuses, five medical centers, three affiliated national laboratories, and a statewide agriculture and natural resources program. The UC system has 220,000 students, 180,000 faculty and staff, more than 1.6 million alumni, and an $18 billion annual operating budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof served as chancellor of the University of Texas System from August 2002 to May 2008 and as president of the four-campus University of Minnesota from 1997 to 2002. Before that, he was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Texas at Austin for 26 years, serving as dean of the law school from 1984 to 1994 and as the university's executive vice president and provost from 1994 to 1997. His career at UT Austin began in 1971, when he was appointed an assistant professor of law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While on the UT law faculty, he also was a visiting professor at the law schools at the University of Michigan and UC Berkeley, and conducted research as a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick in England.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yudof is a distinguished authority on constitutional law, freedom of expression and education law who has written and edited numerous publications on free speech and gender discrimination, including \"Educational Policy and the Law.\" He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Law Institute. He served a two-year term on the U.S. Department of Education's Advisory Board of the National Institute for Literacy and has served on the President's Council on Service and Civic Participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Philadelphia native, he earned an LL.B. degree (cum laude) in 1968 from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned a B.A. degree (cum laude with honors in political science) in 1965. He was awarded the Alumni Award of Merit (2001) and the prestigious James Wilson Award (2004) by the University of Pennsylvania Law School for his many years of service and contributions to the legal community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife, Judy, is the immediate past international president of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. She also serves on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Council and the international board of Hillel. In 1993, Mark and Judy Yudof were co-recipients of the Jewish National Fund Tree of Life Award. The Yudofs have two grown children — a son, Seth, and a daughter, Samara.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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The report found that not only does California have one of the highest suspension rates in the country, but that the vast majority of suspended students are African American. It also found that California is issuing more suspensions than diplomas, and that kids who get kicked out of school are five times more likely to drop out and three times more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. This research spawned a number of other reports, and the data was so stark that those who had already been doing advocacy work on the issue used it to push reform measures, catching the attention of legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So there were about seven bills that aimed to curb the problem, and six of seven passed. A lot of the bills don’t have real teeth, but at least they begin to address the issue, advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think the most significant of the new laws requires school districts to look for alternative, research-based programs to suspension. Districts will have to show that that the alternatives failed before they can suspend students. These programs are supposed to help kids figure out their bad decision-making instead of give them a free pass for a few days out of school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big question, naturally, is funding. A lot of districts are saying they don’t have the money for this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a number of districts are starting to gravitate toward these \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/search?q=restorative+justice\" target=\"_blank\">restorative justice \u003c/a>programs, which have their critics -- they're too soft on kids, they say. 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