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Entrepreneurial president : Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003 /

"Richard C. Atkinson was named president of the University of California in August 1995, barely four weeks after the UC Regents voted to end affirmative action. How he dealt with the admissions wars--the political, legal, and academic consequences of that historic and controversial decision, as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pelfrey, Patricia A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evolution of a crisis
  • The education of a chancellor
  • Who runs the university?
  • Seventeenth president
  • A problem in search of a solution
  • "A more inclusive definition of merit"
  • Reinventing the economy
  • An idea and its consequences
  • History's coils: the nuclear weapons laboratories
  • Presidents and chancellors
  • Epilogue: one university.