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

ISBN: 0520251997

Author: Atkinson, Richard C. C.

Condition: New

Richard C. Atkinsons eight-year tenure as president of the University of California (1995-2003) reflected the major issues facing California itself: the states emergence as the worlds leading knowledge-based economy and the rapidly expanding size and diversity of its population. As this selection of President Atkinsons 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 Atkinsons 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 Universitys pioneering activities with the California Digital Library; and the Universitys 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 nations leading public research university and the history of American higher education.