A life in higher education
Subtitle: fifteenth president of the University of California, 1983-1992
By: David Pierpont Gardner ; with introductions by Clark Kerr and Jack W. Peltason ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1995 and 1996. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Kerr, Clark, 1911-; Peltason, J. W. 1923-; Lage, Ann.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education.
Published: 1997
Subjects: University of California (System); United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education.; University of Utah.; William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.; College presidents -- Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Gardner discusses his Mormon upbringing in Berkeley, Calif., his early years at the University of California working with the Alumni Association during his doctoral studies at Berkeley, and as Assistant to the Chancellor at the Santa Barbara campus; serving as President of the University of Utah; the work of the National Commission on Excellence in Eucation and its report "A nation at risk"; his appointment and activities as President of the University of California, including fiscal, academic, internal and external affairs, appointments, long-range planning, and retirement; and finally his joining the Hewlett Foundation.