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The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "e;a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities."e; This second of two …
These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six …
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them …
This concise book tells the absorbing story of the development of one of the greatest public institutions in the country. Beginning with the land grant that established a …
Forty years after Clark Kerr coined the term multiversity, the American research university has continued to evolve into a complex force for social and economic good. This volume …
Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. …
In "Searching for Utopia", Hanna Holborn Gray reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of today's research institutions. In particular, she examines the ideas …
This book is an expanded version of the Clark Kerr Lectures of 2012, delivered by Neil Smelser at the University of California at Berkeley in January and February of that year. The …
David Pierpont Gardner was president of one of the world's most distinguished centers of higher learning - the nine-campus University of California - from 1983 to 1992. In this …
These invaluable essays offer an insider's perspective on three decades at a major American university during a time of political turmoil. Neil J. Smelser, who spent thirty-six …