Recent atkinson_papers_pres items

Entrepreneurial President: Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003

Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Richard C. Atkinson was named president of the University of California in August 1995, just four weeks after the UC Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action in the admission of students. The Regents’ decision reversed thirty years of history and made Richard Atkinson the first UC president in decades to face the conflict between the California Master Plan’s goal of broad educational access and UC’s high academic standards without the tool of affirmative action.

UC’s often stormy transition to the post-affirmative action age was to be his first major task as president. Entrepreneurial President analyzes this and other defining issues of Atkinson’s eight-year presidency: UC’s expansion into new forms of scientific research with industry; Atkinson’s much-publicized challenge to the nation’s dominant college-entrance examination, the SAT; and the 1999 arrest of Los Alamos nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee on charges of espionage, which ignited...

20/20: Reflections on the Last 20 Years of the 20th Century

Mon, 8 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

20/20: Reflections on the Last 20 Years of the 20th Century

Entrepreneurial President: Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson

Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Atkinson was in some respects an unusual University of California president. He was the first to have been an academic entrepreneur, the founder of a private company based on his research into cognition, learning, and computer-assisted instruction as a faculty member at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s. A former director of the National Science Foundation appointed by President Jimmy Carter, he guided NSF through the perilous rapids of the Nixon anti-science era. During his fifteen years (1980-1995) as chancellor of UC San Diego, he encouraged research partnerships with industry that were instrumental in transforming the San Diego region into a world leader in technology-based industries. By the end of his tenure, the National Research Council’s 1995 report on graduate programs in U.S. universities ranked the scholarly and scientific caliber of UCSD’s faculty and graduate offerings tenth in the nation, higher than any other public university except UC Berkeley.

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Atkinson Presidency Timeline

Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Atkinson Presidency Timeline

A Brief History of the Atkinson Presidency: 1995–2003

Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000

A Brief History of the Atkinson Presidency: 1995–2003

UC and the National Research Council Ratings of Graduate Programs

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Commentary and excerpt from the May/June 1996 issue of Change.

Report to Regents on National Research Council Study

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Report to Regents on National Research Council Study

America's Great Success Story – The Land-Grant University

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

America's Great Success Story – The Land-Grant University

Remarks on Appointment as President of the University of California

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Remarks on Appointment as President of the University of California

How to Improve U.S. Productivity

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Opinion piece on investing in university research and development to ensure intellectual and economic productivity.

High Stakes for Knowledge

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Opinion piece on the importance of funding university research.

Perspective on Diversity: UC Is Unwaveringly Committed

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Opinion piece on UC’s efforts to achieve diversity without the use of race and ethnicity as factors in admissions.

UC and California's Futures

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

UC and California's Futures

The Future of the Research University

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The Future of the Research University

Equilibrium in the Research University

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Equilibrium in the Research University

Universities and the Knowledge-Based Economy

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Universities and the Knowledge-Based Economy

The California Solution

Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Keynote address at the California Coalition on Science and Technology Summit.

Achievement Versus Aptitude Tests in College Admissions