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History of the University of California

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.

Speaking Freely: A Scholar's Memoir of Experience in the University of California

Angus E. Taylor, 2000, 227 pages, ISBN 0-87772-393-1, Book #3931, $21.95

Over a long and distinguished career at the University of California, Angus Ellis Taylor taught mathematics at UCLA, was vice president for academic affairs under three presidents, and served as chancellor of the university's Santa Cruz campus. A brilliant scholar and teacher, Taylor was also a gifted administrator. His story, told warmly and well here, involves some of the most difficult and tumultuous years in the life of a great university.

Chancellor at Berkeley, Glenn T. Seaborg & Ray Colvig, 1994, 718pp, ISBN 0-87772-343-5, $ 34.50 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.

The Academic Senate of the University of California: Its Role in the Shared Governance and Operation of the University of California

Angus E. Taylor, 1998, 120 pages, ISBN #0-87772-379-6, Book #3796, $15 (paper)

Angus Taylor's history of The Academic Senate of the University of California is the first volume in the Clark Kerr Memoirs Project published by the Institute of Governmental Studies Press as a supplement to Kerr's memoirs of his years as chancellor of the Berkeley campus and president of the University of California. Taylor's work narrates the notable achievements of shared governance as it evolved through the joint efforts of the Academic Senate and the president of the university.

Chapters on the History of the University of California, published jointly by IGS and the Center for Studies in Higher Education this series illuminates crucial turning points in the "long century" of the University. Three Faces of Berkeley: Competing Ideologies in the Wheeler Era, 1899-1919 (Book 1 in the History of the University of California), Henry F. May,1993, 50pp, ISBN 0-87772-342-7, $10.00 May looks at the history of the University of California during the Wheeler era as a microcosm of American cultural history. Through the first two decades of the century, in the midst of a profound transformation, the University sought to balance and redefine its role--as a democratic, utilitarian institution, a stronghold of culture, and a center of high-powered research.

California's Practical Period: Cultural Context of the Emerging University, 1850's-1870's (Book 2 in the History of the University of California),
Gunther Barth, 1994, 50pp, ISBN 0-87772-356-7, $10.00

Barth examines higher education in nineteenth-century California, drawing connections between the 1855 College of California (and its successor, the 1868 University of California) and the earlier cemetery and park traditions. He lays great stress on the character of the men of this "practical period," defining their public, political, economic, and intellectual behavior. Acutely aware of the relationship between land and ideas, between dreams and practicality, Barth captures the ironies of their juxtaposition in the special setting of California.

The Origins of the Chancellorship: The Buried Report of 1948 (Book 3 of the History of the University of California), Eugene C. Lee, 1995, 77pp, ISBN 0-87772-360-5, $10.00 In 1948, the University of California, facing dramatic enrollment pressures and the need for new campuses, stood at an organizational crossroads. Outside consultants recommended a decentralized administration, with strong campus executives. The president disagreed and pressed for strengthened central control. The outside consultant's report conveniently disappeared. "[A]n illuminating, authoritative, and balanced account....Lee is the one person in the best position to review this important aspect of the history of the University of California....Few people have both written so well about the history of the University of California and served that history so well."-- Clark Kerr, UC President-Emeritus "Lee's excellent monograph is a beautifully told tale of the lengthy and difficult history leading up to the creation of [the office of Chancellor]."-- Charles Young, UCLA Chancellor

Equally in View : The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools (Book 4 of the History of the University of California),
Geraldine Jonçich Clifford, 1995, 103pp, ISBN 0-87772-364-8, $10.00

Clifford explores the uneasy relationship of the University and the schools: how was the former to control the curriculum of the later, and how was it to provide the schools with the right sort of teachers? She also examines the feminization of the teaching profession, the place of female students in the curriculum, and the monumental role played by women in building California's provision for education at all levels. The book's publication was announced in conjunction with a special celebration of "Women at Cal."

"A Western Acropolis of Learning": The University of California in 1879 (Book 5 of the History of the University of California) Roy Lowe, 1996, 47pp, $10, ISBN 0-87772-368-0 Phoebe Hearst's 1897 International Competition for a new architectural plan for the campus of UC Berkeley took place in a setting of pervasive Anglo Saxonism. Lowe sketches the arguments for a suitable academic style for the University, provocatively reveals elements of racial prejudice, and explains how this prejudice for Anglo-Saxon and northern European styles produced the winners of the competition and the unique plan adopted for the University.

The University in the 1870s: William Hammond Hall and the Original Campus Plan (Book 6 of the History of the University of California),
Kent Watson
The University and the Constitutional Convention of 1878
Peter Van Houten, 1996, 90pp, $10, ISBN 0-87772-370-2

These paired essays, one about the University's physical campus, the other about a change in its constitutional status, focus on the five-year period from 1873 to 1878, an era that marked the emergence of agriculture as a major force in higher education.

History at Berkeley: A Dialog in Three Parts (Book 7 of the History of the University of California), Gene A. Brucker, Henry F. May, and David A. Hollinger, 1998, 50pp, $10, ISBN 0-87772-377-X Three members of the department trace the changes in history at UC Berkeley from the 1950s through the 1970s. During this period, the department underwent profound changes as the old guard of conventional, provincial historians gave way before a wave of "Young Turks" who opened the curriculum to new courses and the doors to new people. Anyone who is interested in the study of history will find this book fascinating.

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