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This is the story of a radical effort to establish a special learning community in the heart of a multiversity, the University of California, Berkeley, and the impact it had on the lives of its students. The program was based on ideas developed by philosopher Joseph Tussman out of the heritage of ideas articulated by Alexander Meiklejohn. In this unique book, Trow does not just describe and analyze the Experimental College Program, as Tussman's College was called, she explores, through intensive, open-ended interviews conducted decades later with participants, the long-term impact that experience had on their lives. The result is a rich and multifaceted account of an experiment that occupies an interesting and important place in the history of higher education.

The Beleagured College: Essays on Educational Reform, Joseph Tussman, 1997, 198pp, $14.95, ISBN 0-87772-373-7 An outstanding teacher, a thoughtful critic, and an important education innovator, Joseph Tussman offers a compelling critique of current trends in higher education. He proposes a novel conception of the "teaching power" as an inherent constitutional power and discusses attempts to limit its scope as part of a new understanding of academic freedom. The focus of the book is a look back at the famous experimental college he created at UC Berkeley, offshoots of which now exist on a number of campuses. "Tussman's work is especially thought-provoking and challenging given the current discussions regarding curricular coherence and the canon. This is an important book that addresses the fundamental problems of liberal education."--David Pierpont Gardner, President Emeritus, University of California "A great contribution to the current debate."--Clark Kerr, President Emeritus, University of California "Fascinating reading--full of original insights into the educational scene. There is much here to bring some sense into the discussion of the university today and what its role should be in the future."--Sheldon Meyer, Oxford University Press "Unquestionably important and readable. Free of crankiness, it's not concerned with faddish 'hot-button' issues. It's written by a master stylist and makes a proposal for saving undergraduate education from its present condition of drift and incoherence."--Stan Persky, The Vancouver Sun

Pluralism and Education: Current World Trends in Policy, Law, and Administration
Peter M. Roeder, Ingo Richter, and Hans-Peter Fssel, Editors 1995, 345pp, ISBN 0-87772-366-4, $21.95

This book documents the contributions to an international conference on law and education convened by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. In an age of increasing diversity and conflict, experts examine how to organize education in a pluralistic society. The authors of this book describe trends in Europe, America, Africa, and Australia.

Law at Berkeley: The History of Boalt Hall, Sandra P. Epstein, 1997, 365pp, $27.95, ISBN 0-87772-375-3 Boalt Hall is a unique institution in the state of California, at the University of California, and in the history of American legal education. This history of law at Berkeley begins with the first course in Roman law in 1881 and concludes with the current challenges facing Boalt Hall as a new century approaches.

This unique memoir is a fascinating, fine-grained recollection of 30 momentous months from 1958-60. Seaborg recalls his chancellorship as an academic Camelot--a Rose Bowl victory, an NCAA basketball championship, two Nobel prizewinners, and Berkeley ranked as the finest University in the nation.