Reflections on the University of California: From the free speech movement to the global university

Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University

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  Smelser, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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1. The academic faculty. I not only taught in my department, but in my capacity as University Professor of Sociology (1972-94) I also gave courses of instruction on five other campuses: Davis, Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz.
2. The department. I served two terms as chair of the Berkeley sociology department, 1975-77 and 1991-92.
3. Committee life. I served on and chaired numerous committees at the department, Academic Senate, Berkeley administration, and system wide administration levels.
4. Student services. I was a practicing therapist and member of the psychiatry department, Cowell Hospital, Berkeley campus, 1966-72 and 1981-82.
5. Organized research units. On the Berkeley campus I was affi liated with the Institute of Industrial Relations in the 1960s; associate director of the Institute of International Studies, 1969-70, 1972-73, 1981-89; and acting director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, 1987-89.
6. The education abroad program. I served as director of the UC Education Abroad Program for the United Kingdom/Ireland, 1977-79.
7. The Academic Senate. I chaired the Policy Committee of the Berkeley Division, 1971-72;
8. chaired the Committee on Educational Policy, 1979-80;
9. chaired the Berkeley Division, 1982-84, and chaired the Systemwide Academic Council and Assembly, 1985-87.
10. The chancellor's office. In 1965 I was assistant to the chancellor for student political activity (see chapter 1), assistant chancellor for educational development, 1966-68, and was called in as an informal advisor on subsequent occasions.
11. The office of the president. In 1993-94 I served as special advisor on long-term planning to President Jack Peltason and Vice-President and Provost Walter Massey. In addition, I worked as critic and advisor to both Clark Kerr and David Gardner, past presidents of the university, as they prepared their respective memoirs.
12. The board of regents. I was a nonvoting but regularly attending and participating faculty representative on the board, 1985-87.
13. Smelser, Neil J. 1973a. "Growth, Structural Change, and Conflict in California Public Higher Education, 1950-1970." In Public Higher Education in California, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, 9-142. Berkeley: University of California Press.
14. Smelser, Neil J. 1973b. "Epilogue: Social-Structural Dimensions of Higher Education." In The American University, by Talcott Parsons and Gerald M. Platt, 389-422. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
15. Smelser, Neil J., and Robin Content. 1980. The Changing Academic Market: Institutional Context and a Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press.
16. Heirich, Max. 1968. The Spiral of Conflict: Berkeley 1964. New York: Columbia University Press.
17. Heirich, Max, and Sam Kaplan. 1965. Yesterday's discord. California Monthly 75 (Feb. ): 20-32.
18. Smelser, Neil J. 1962. Theory of Collective Behavior. New York: Free Press of Glencoe.
19. Smelser, Neil J. 2007. The Faces of Terrorism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
20. Neil J. Smelser, Chair, University Professor of Sociology, Berkeley Thomas Bond, Provost, Revelle College, Professor, Department of Chemistry, San Diego Walter Capps, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Barbara Katherine Clark, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Irvine Bruce Cooperstein, Provost, College Eight, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Santa Cruz Carlos Cortes, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Riverside Patricia Fitchen, Visiting Lecturer, Department of French, Santa Cruz Dean Florez, Student, Undergraduate Student Affairs, Los Angeles Julie Gordon, Principal Policy Analyst, Academic Affairs, office of the president Evelyn Hu, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Barbara Kenneth Jowitt, Dean, Freshman and Sophomore Studies, Professor, Department of Political Science, Berkeley Leon Mayhew, Dean, Letters and Science, Davis Calvin Moore, Associate Vice President-Academic Affairs, office of the president. Gary Nash, Professor, Department of History, Los Angeles Carol Newton, Director, Honors Program, Department of Biomathematics, Los Angeles June O'Connor, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Riverside Lisa Ray, Director of Basic Courses, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, Davis. Eric Rentschler, Director, Film Studies, Associate Professor, Department of German, Irvine
21. San Diego Walter Capps, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Barbara Katherine Clark, Visiting Lecturer, Department of English, Irvine Bruce Cooperstein, Provost, College Eight, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Santa Cruz Carlos Cortes, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Riverside Patricia Fitchen, Visiting Lecturer, Department of French, Santa Cruz Dean Florez, Student, Undergraduate Student Affairs, Los Angeles Julie Gordon, Principal Policy Analyst, Academic Affairs, office of the president Evelyn Hu, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Barbara Kenneth Jowitt, Dean, Freshman and Sophomore Studies, Professor, Department of Political Science, Berkeley Leon Mayhew, Dean, Letters and Science, Davis Calvin Moore, Associate Vice President-Academic Affairs, office of the president. Gary Nash, Professor, Department of History, Los Angeles Carol Newton, Director, Honors Program, Department of Biomathematics, Los Angeles June O'Connor, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Riverside Lisa Ray, Director of Basic Courses, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, Davis. Eric Rentschler, Director, Film Studies, Associate Professor, Department of German, Irvine
22. Santa Cruz Carlos Cortes, Professor and Chair, Department of History, Riverside Patricia Fitchen, Visiting Lecturer, Department of French, Santa Cruz Dean Florez, Student, Undergraduate Student Affairs, Los Angeles Julie Gordon, Principal Policy Analyst, Academic Affairs, office of the president Evelyn Hu, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santa Barbara Kenneth Jowitt, Dean, Freshman and Sophomore Studies, Professor, Department of Political Science, Berkeley Leon Mayhew, Dean, Letters and Science, Davis Calvin Moore, Associate Vice President-Academic Affairs, office of the president. Gary Nash, Professor, Department of History, Los Angeles Carol Newton, Director, Honors Program, Department of Biomathematics, Los Angeles June O'Connor, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Riverside Lisa Ray, Director of Basic Courses, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric, Davis. Eric Rentschler, Director, Film Studies, Associate Professor, Department of German, Irvine
23. Joseph Watson, Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate Affairs, San Diego Suzanne Weil, Graduate Student, Department of English, Berkeley.
24. Report on TA Training at UC Davis, 1980-81, p. 8.
25. See "Let's Talk It Over," Newsweek (December 1985), pp. 43-44.
26. Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education, The Challenge of Change (Sacramento, March 1986), p. 8.
27. The Challenge of Change, p. 8.
28. Joseph Tussman, Experiment at Berkeley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969), pp. xii-xiv.
29. Academic Senate, "General Education in the University of California," July 1984.
30. National Institute of Education, Involvement in Learning: Realizing the Potential of Higher Education (Mortimer Report). National Institute of Education, 1984.
31. Harris poll, reported in IEE Spectrum (June 1984), pp. 128-32.
32. Henry Nash Smith, "The Humanities in the University," in Public Higher Education in California, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, pp. 209-20 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974).
33. Report of the Task Force on Lower Division Education in the University of California (Smelser report), 1986;
34. Report of the Commission on Response to a Changing Student Body (Maslach report), 1990.
35. Dundes, Alan, and Carl R. Pagter. 1975. Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Austin, TX: American Folklore Society.
36. Academic Transformation: Seventeen Institutions under Pressure, ed. David Riesman and Verne A. Stadtman, 51-79 (New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1973).
37. Heirich, Max. 1968. The Spiral of Conflict: Berkeley, 1964. New York: Columbia University Press.
38. The Research University in a Time of Discontent, ed. Jonathan R. Cole, Elinor G. Barber, and Stephen R. Graubard, 37-53 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Also appeared in the Fall 1993 issue of Daedalus, 37-54.
39. Whyte, William Foote. 1955. Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
40. Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education, ed. Eugene V. Lowe, Jr., 169-92 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999).
41. Higher Learning in America 1980-2000, ed. Arthur Levine, 114-30 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993). Used by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press.
42. California State Council on Educational Planning and Coordination. 1934. Statement of Basic Principles of the Respective Functions and Program of the Junior College, the Teachers College and the University. Sacramento: California State Council on Educational Planning and Coordination.
43. Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education. 1986. The Challenge of Change: A Reassessment of the California Community Colleges. Sacramento, CA: Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education.
44. Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education. 1987. The Master Plan Renewed: Unity, Equity, Quality and Efficiency in California Postsecondary Education. Sacramento, CA: Commission for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education.
45. Condren, Clive. 1988. Preparing for the Twenty-first Century: A Report on Higher Education in California. California Postsecondary Education Commission Report 88(1). Sacramento: California Postsecondary Education Commission.
46. Coons, Arthur G. 1968. Crises in California Higher Education. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press.
47. Education Committee, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 1989. Review of Higher Education Policy in California. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
48. Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. 1973. Report of the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education. Sacramento: California Legislature.
49. Joint Committee for the Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education. 1989. California Faces . . . California's Future: Education for Citizenship in a Multicultural Democracy. Sacramento: California Legislature.
50. Master Plan Survey Team. 1960. Master Plan for Higher Education in California, 1960 to 1975. Sacramento: California State Department of Education.
51. McConnell, T. R., T. C. Holy, and H. H. Semans. 1955. A Restudy of the Needs of California in Higher Education. Sacramento: California State Department of Education.
52. Parsons, Talcott. 1973. "Epilogue: The University Bundle: A Study of the Balance between Differentiation and Integration. In Public Higher Education in California, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, 275-99. Berkeley: University of California Press.
53. Semans, H. H. and T. C. Holy. 1957. A Study of the Needs for Additional Centers of Public Higher Education in California. Sacramento: California State Department of Education.
54. Smelser, Neil J. 1973a. "Epilogue: Social-Structural Dimensions of Higher Education. In The American University, by Talcott Parsons and Gerald M. Platt, 389-422. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
55. Smelser, Neil J. 1973b. "Growth, Structural Change, and Conflict in California Higher education." In Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond (eds.), Public Higher Education in California, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, 9-143. Berkeley: University of California Press.
56. Strayer, George D., Monroe E. Deutsch, and Aubrey A. Douglas. 1948. A Report on a Survey of the Needs of California in Higher Education. Sacramento: State of California.
57. Task Force on Lower Division Education. 1986. Lower Division Education in the University of California. Berkeley: University of California.
58. Dundes, Alan, and Carl R. Pagter. 1975. Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire. Austin, TX: American Folklore Society.