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OC Insider: Making the Grade

OC’s getting marks for affordability, on the higher education front.

The Wall Street Journal last week reported that the area’s two public universities, Cal State Fullerton and UCI, were among the colleges in the country that offered the best value, by keeping costs low and putting “graduates on pathways to lucrative careers.”

CSUF ranked No. 7 in the U.S., while UCI was No. 13.

The WSJ ranking was based on research conducted by public-policy think tank Third Way, and “looks at how quickly a degree from each college pays for its cost through the salary boost it provides its students.”

“We do that by estimating the net price of a four-year education at each school, and comparing that to how much higher the median salary of the school’s graduates is, 10 years after enrollment, than that of high-school graduates in the state where the school is located,” a Sept. 18 WSJ report said.

The top of the list was heavy with public universities, and nine of the top 20 schools on the list were in California.

The WSJ got some content from the Business Journal this week, too.

OCBJ Editor at Large Rick Reiff penned a Sept. 20 column for the paper, titled “I Left My iPad in San Francisco,” giving a first-hand account of rising crime levels in the Bay Area.

“It was quite a welcome,” Reiff wrote. “Less than three hours after arriving in this city, we were treated to a local specialty: a smash-and-grab theft.”

“My wife and I exited an exhibit on Tudor England at the Legion of Honor art museum in bucolic Lincoln Park to discover that our rental car’s backseat windows had been shattered and the satchel containing my iPad snatched.”

The column counted close to a thousand online comments as of last Friday.

Closer to home, Reiff interviewed a pair of Orange County Power Authority leaders, Fullerton Mayor and OCPA Chair Fred Jung and Irvine City Councilmember and OCPA Vice-Chair Kathleen Treseder, as part of a program for OC World that aired Sept. 4 on KLCS-PBS.

Rod Hanson, founder of Cityside Fiber, counts more than a business interest in improving internet and wireless service in South Orange County.

“Internet speed is slow in my neighborhood,” the Mission Viejo resident told our Peter J. Brennan.

Cityside Fiber, which has raised more than $100 million to bring high-speed fiber to South OC, will start service in ­October.

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Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung
Sonia Chung joined the Orange County Business Journal in 2021 as their Marketing Creative Director. In her role she creates all visual content as it relates to the marketing needs for the sales and events teams. Her responsibilities include the creation of marketing materials for six annual corporate events, weekly print advertisements, sales flyers in correspondence to the editorial calendar, social media graphics, PowerPoint presentation decks, e-blasts, and maintains the online presence for Orange County Business Journal’s corporate events.
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