Entrepreneurial President

by Pelfrey, Patricia A.

• ISBN13: 9780520270800
• ISBN10: 0520270800
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-06
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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 well as the issue of governance--is discussed in this book. Another focus is the entrepreneurial university--the expansion of the University's research enterprise into new forms of scientific research with industry during Atkinson's presidency. The final crisis of his administration was the prolonged controversy over the University's management of the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons research laboratories that began with the arrest of Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee on charges of espionage in 1999. The Atkinson Presidencyexplains what was at stake during each of these episodes, how Atkinson addressed the issues, and why the outcomes matter to the University and to the people of California. Pelfrey's book provides an analysis of the challenges, perils, and limits of presidential leadership in the nation's leading public university, while bringing a historical perspective to bear on the current serious threats to its future as a university.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
About This Book	p. xiii
The Evolution of a Crisis	p. 1
The Education of a Chancellor	p. 15
Who Runs the University?	p. 38
Seventeenth President	p. 54
A Problem in Search of a Solution	p. 69
"A More Inclusive Definition of Merit"	p. 86
Reinventing the Economy	p. 100
An Idea and its Consequences	p. 115
History's Coils: The Nuclear Weapons Laboratories	p. 139
Presidents and Chancellors	p. 156
Epilogue: One University	p. 161
Regents' Resolutions SP-1, SP-2, and RE-28	p. 173
Atkinson Presidency Timeline	p. 177
University of California Indicators, 1995-2003	p. 186
Notes	p. 189
Select Bibliography	p. 209
Index	p. 215
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