Political scientist and leader in higher education, 1947-1995 : oral history transcript : sixteenth president of the University of California, chancellor at UC Irvine and the University of Illinois / Jack W. Peltason ; with introductions by Richard C. Atkinson and Austin Ranney. Interviews conducted

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Political scientist and leader in higher education, 1947-1995 : oral history transcript : sixteenth president of the University of California, chancellor at UC Irvine and the University of Illinois / Jack W. Peltason ; with introductions by Richard C. Atkinson and Austin Ranney. Interviews conducted by Ann Lage in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2001.

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Family and youth in Kansas and Missouri; education at the University of Missouri and Princeton in political science; study of political processes in the judiciary; teaching at Smith College, 1947-1951; University of Illinois Department of Political Science, 1951-1960, and dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1960-1964; founding vice chancellor of UC Irvine, 1964-1967: developing academic plan, recruiting faculty; first chancellor of the University of Illinois, 1967-1977: African American student and antiwar protests, academic programs, athletics, efforts to diversify student body and staff; president, American Council on Education, 1977-1984; chancellor at UC Irvine, 1984-1992: medical school issues, fundraising, community relations, the Irvine Company, partnering with Hitachi Corporation, recruiting faculty, diversity issues, new academic programs, administrative staff; shared governance at UC; selection as president of University of California, 1992, crises over executive compensation and state budget; restructuring Office of the President, selection of four new chancellors, relations with the Board of Regents, campus chancellors, Academic Council, the press; securing state budget increases; debates over tenth campus, student fee hikes. (Cont.) employee retirement plans, technology transfer initiative, affirmative action in admissions and hiring; retirement as president, 1995; service on corporate and foundation boards; role of wife, Suzanne Toll Peltason; fatherhood and grandfatherhood; reflections on Dan Aldrich, Clark Kerr, Donald Bren, David Gardner, Charles Young, Ward Connerly, and others.

Transcript: 1 v. (xiii, 734 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 32 sound cassettes.

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