Research Catalog

Title

The pursuit of knowledge : speeches and papers of Richard C. Atkinson / Patricia A. Pelfrey, editor ; with a foreword by David S. Saxon.

Author

Atkinson, Richard C.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Pelfrey, Patricia A.

Description

xiv, 210 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Richard C. Atkinson's eight-year tenure as president of the University of California (1995-2003) reflected the major issues facing California itself: the state's emergence as the world's leading knowledge-based economy and the rapidly expanding size and diversity of its population. As this outstanding selection of his speeches and papers reveals, President Atkinson's administration was marked by innovative approaches that deliberately shaped UC's role in this changing California. These writings tell the story of the national controversy over the SAT and Atkinson's successful challenge to the dominance of the 75-year-old college entrance examination. They also highlight other issues with national ramifications: the end of race-attentive admissions and UC's experiments in race-neutral admissions programs; the challenges facing academic libraries and the University's pioneering activities with the California Digital Library; and the University's involvement with new paradigms of industry-university research. Together, these speeches and papers open a window on an eventful period in the history of the nation's leading public research university and in the history of American higher education.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• ebrary.

Subject

• Atkinson, Richard C
• University of California, Berkeley
• Universities and colleges > Administration
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States
• College presidents > California > Biography
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

A brief history of the Atkinson presidency -- Seventeenth president -- Remarks on receiving the University of Chicago alumni medal -- The golden fleece, science education, and U.S. science policy -- Remarks on appointment as president of the University of California -- The University of California -- The future of the University of California -- The role of the president of the university -- Robert Gordon Sproul -- Tradition at the University of California -- Diversity: not there yet -- The research university and its responsibilities -- The numbers game and graduate education -- Opportunities for Chinese and American universities in the knowledge-based economy -- The globalization of the university -- Academic freedom and the research university -- A new world of scholarly communication -- Achievement versus aptitude -- Standardized tests and access to American Universities -- The California crucible -- Statement on the vote by the College Board Trustees to revise the SAT I -- College admissions and the SAT: a personal perspective -- Farewell remarks to the Board of Regents -- Regents' resolution in honor of Richard C. Atkinson.

ISBN

• 9780520251991 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0520251997 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006025557

OCLC

• 70866983
• SCSB-10989614

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Harvard Library