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.
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