Reflections on the University of California
Subtitle: from the free speech movement to the global university
By: Neil J. Smelser
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780520260962
Description: "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 years as a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, sheds new light on a full range of the issues that dominated virtually all institutions of higher learning during the second half of the twentieth century. Smelser considers student activism - in particular the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley - political surprises, affirmative action, multiculturalism and the culture wars, and much more. As one of the leading sociologists of his generation, Smelser is uniquely qualified to convey and analyze the complexities of administrating a first-rate and very large university as it encounters a highly politicized environment." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spring 1965 : an analytic and autobiographical account (2008); title: Berkeley in crisis and change (1973); title: Surprises at Berkeley : anticipating, understanding, and coping with them (2004); title: The politics of ambivalence : diversity in the research universities (1994); title: Problematics of affirmative action : a view from California (1999); title: California : a multisegment system (1993); title: Governing the University of California (1994); title: Report of the Commission on Education (1981); title: Report of the Task Force on Lower Division Education (1986); title: Intercollegiate athletics at Berkeley : a report of the Chancellor's Blue Ribbon commission on Intercollegiate Athletics (1991); title: Thanksgiving Dinner Report (1977).