To forget the past or to neglect its lessons risks UC’s future, for it is an institution that is at once vulnerable and fragile and yet remarkably resilient and adaptive. It is also at the very center of California’s educational, economic, civic, social, and cultural aspirations and, therefore, uncommonly susceptible to political and sectarian pressures, threats, promises, and enticements of one kind or another. (Earning My Degree, p. 4; see also pp. 287-88)
David Gardner, University of California, Berkeley. Photo: Richard Holmgre
Publications and Speeches
Publications
“The Power Struggle to Convert the University,” Educational Record, 50, #2 (Spring 1969), 113-20.
"The University in Disarray: Causes of Conflict and Prospects for Change," in Cybernetics Simulation and Conflict Resolution, ed., Douglas Knight (New York: Spartan Books, 1970), 13-28 (Also a portion appears in Educational Record, Spring 1969, pp. 113-120)
“The Charge of the Byte Brigade: Educators Lead the Fourth Revolution,” Educational Record, 67, #1 (Winter,1986), 10-15.
“Issues Confronting American Higher Education,” Higher Education Quarterly, 42, #3 (Summer 1988), 230-37. [Open access available from libraries with Wiley Online Library license]
Related speeches:
- 4-5-1988—“Issues Confronting American Higher Education,” 10th anniversary of first agreement between UC and U of Peking, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 4-21-1988—“Issues Confronting American Higher Education, 25th anniversary of cooperative agreement between the University of California and the University of Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
- 9-16-1988—“Issues Confronting American Higher Education, University of Bologna Ninth Centennial, Bologna, Italy
3-1989—“Looking Toward 2005,” Chamber of Commerce Alert, (March 21, 1989).
“Clark Kerr: Triumphs and Turmoil,” Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.10.12, UC Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, July 2012. (Also in Clark Kerr's World of Higher Education Reaches the 21st Century: Chapters in a Special History, ed. Sheldon Rothblatt, Higher Education Dynamics, Vol. 38. New York, NY: Springer, 2012)
Speeches
5-29-1975—“Head and Hand: Education’s Working Partners,” Commencement Address, Utah Technical College, Provo, Utah
7-13-1976—“Faculty Powers, Freedoms, and Constraints in College and University Governance,” Utah Conference on Higher Education, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah
5-2-1977—“External Forces Affecting Higher Education,” Western Association of College and University Business Officers, Seattle, Washington
3-26-1985—Remarks to the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan, Sacramento, California
5-21-1986—“Public Policy and Higher Education to the Year 2000,” remarks to the Commission for the Review of the Master Plan, Sacramento, California
4-1987—“Issues Confronting American Higher Education,” Fulbright Lecture, Japan.
5-16-1987—"Frontiers of Learning: The West and Higher Education," Centennial celebration, Stanford University, May 16, 1987
5-13-1988—“Intersegmental Activity from the University of California Perspective,” Intersegmental Coordinating Council Conference, San Francisco, California
4-18-1990—“Working Together: an Agenda for Joint Action,” Western College Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
2-7-1992—Remarks to the Senate Fiscal Retreat, Berkeley, California
4-22-1993—“The Case for the American University,” The Grace A. Tanner Lecture in Human Values, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah, April 22, 1993
2- 23- 1995—"Independent Colleges and Universities: A Force for Constructive Change," American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities, Scottsdale, Arizona
11-19-2005—“The California System: Governing and Management Principles and Their Link to Academic Excellence” David Dodds Henry Lecture, University of Illinois, Chicago, published 2007, University of Illinois.
See also 11-12-2009—Remarks to the University of California Commission on the Future of the University, Oakland, California