Earning My Degree : Memoirs of an American University President /

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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 remarkably candid and lively memoir he provides an insider's account of what it was like for a very private, reflec...

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Autor principal: Gardner, David Pierpont, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gardner, David Pierpont, > 1933-
University of California, Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley > Presidents > Biography.
Presidents.
College presidents.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
EDUCATION > Higher.
Presidents et recteurs d'universite > États-Unis > Biographies.
College presidents > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Fiat Lux
  • 1. Youth and Lessons Learned
  • 2. The Apprenticeship Years
  • 3. Serving the University of Utah
  • 4. A Nation at Risk
  • 5. Back to the Blue and Gold
  • 6. The Workings of the University and the Crucial First Year
  • 7. The University on the Move
  • 8. Bumps and Barriers Along the Way
  • 9. The Public and Diplomatic Life
  • 10. Tragedy and Tribulation
  • Epilogue. Years of Renewal and Personal Reflections
  • Appendix 1. UC's Long-Range Planning Estimates for 1988-2006 by Campus
  • Appendix 2. Text of the Regents' Action on the Separation of David P. Gardner as President of the University of California, in Special Session, April 20, 1992
  • Appendix 3. David S. Webster and Tad Skinner's "Rating PhD Programs: What the NRC Report Says . . . and Doesn't Say" on the UC System
  • Appendix 4. University History Series, Regional Oral History Office
  • Appendix 5. Education, Professional Activities, Honors, and Awards, with Bibliography of David P. Gardner
  • Appendix 6. Samples of Articles about or Conversations with David P. Gardner, 1983-1992 / 396
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Index

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