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Nowadays, you can do just about anything you want to in your underwear. Thanks to the Internet, you can shop for a car, go to traffic school and watch the latest Chuck Norris movie -- all without leaving the comfort of your own home. Now, if a group of administrators at the University of California have their way, you may be able to add ‘college degree’ to that list of things you can do with just a checkbook and an Internet connection.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the push for online degrees is being led by Christopher Edley Jr., dean of UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall law school and a strong advocate of Internet education.

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‘We want to do a highly selective, fully online, credit-bearing program on a large scale -- and that has not been done,’ Edley said.

Other academics at the system’s universities are not convinced.

-- Anthony York in Sacramento

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