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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atkinson, Richard C.

Contributor:

Pelfrey, Patricia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of California, Berkeley.

Universities and colleges--Administration.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.

College presidents.

United States.

Atkinson, Richard C.

College presidents--California--Biography.

California.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

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 selection of President Atkinson's speeches and papers reveals, his administration was marked by innovative approaches that deliberately shaped U.C.'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 seventy-five-year-old college entrance examination. They also highlight other issues with national significance: U.C.'s experiments with 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 in 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 the history of American higher education.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520251991

0520251997

OCLC:

70866983

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