The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson - Softcover

Atkinson, Richard C. C.; Pelfrey, Patricia A.; Saxon, David S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520251997 ISBN 13: 9780520251991

Publisher: University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard C. Atkinson is President Emeritus of the University of California. Before becoming president of the UC System, he served as chancellor of UC San Diego; prior to that he served as director of the National Science Foundation and was a long-term member of the faculty at Stanford University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0520251997
• ISBN 13: 9780520251991
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224