The University of California’s Board of Regents recently endorsed a pilot program to develop and test a fully online undergraduate degree program at the school. They largely concurred with Berkeley Law Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., the plan’s leader, that such a program could save the university considerable money while expanding access to students far from campus. Despite earlier warnings from some instructors that a UC online degree program could damage the university’s credibility, several regents countered that UC has the ability and incentive to create the nation’s first highly selective, Web-based degree program for undergraduates.