http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/atkinson_papers_role/rss Recent eScholarship items from The Role of the President in the University of California Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:35:29 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60s1s1g6 <p>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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp;</p><p>UC’s often stormy transition to the post-affirmative action age was to be his first major task as president.&nbsp; <em>Entrepreneurial President </em>analyzes this and other defining issues of Atkinson’s eight-year presidency:&nbsp; UC’s expansion into new forms of&nbsp; 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,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60s1s1g6 Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Pelfrey, Patricia A. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d3p0c0 The Future of the University of California: A Personal View https://escholarship.org/uc/item/05d3p0c0 Fri, 6 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Atkinson, Richard