Report: General Education in the 21st Century: A Report of the University of California Commission on General Education. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education. CSHE.7.07. (April 2007)

"Problematics of Affirmative Action: A View from California." Neil J. Smelser. Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher Education. Eugene Y. Lowe, Jr., ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 169-192. (1999)

Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century. Neil J. Smelser. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1991)

"Major Dimensions in the Relations Between the State and Higher Education." Neil J. Smelser. In The Role of Government in Asian Higher Education. Hiroshima University, p. 9-19. (1988)

"The Textbook Dilemma." Neil J. Smelser. Teaching Newsletter. American Sociological Association, Vol. 7: No. 4-5. p. 13-14. (1982)

The Changing Academic Market: Institutional Context and a Case Study. Neil J. Smelser with Robin Content. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1980)

"Education Abroad Program in the United Kingdom-Ireland." Neil J. Smelser. The Timeline, Vol. 2: No. 1. (Spring 1979)

Public Higher Education in California Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press. (1974)

"The Place and Role of Basic Research in the Future Structures of Post-Secondary Education." Neil J. Smelser. Structures of Students and Place of Research in Mass Higher Education, a publication of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Paris: OECD, p. 68-69. (1974)

"Epilogue: Social-Structure Dimensions of Higher Education." Neil J. Smelser. The American University. Talcott Parsons and Gerald M. Platt. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, p. 389-422. (1973)

"Berkeley in Crisis and Change." Neil J. Smelser. Academic Transformation: Seventeen Institutions Under Pressure. David Riesman and Verne A. Stadtman, eds. New York: McGraw-Hill, p. 51-69. (1973)

"The Social Science." Neil J. Smelser. Content and Context: Essays on College Education. Carl Kaysen. New York: McGraw Hill, p.121-154. (1973)

"Growth, Structural Change, and Conflict in California Public Higher Education, 1950-1970." Neil J. Smelser and Gabriel Almond, eds. Public Higher Education in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 9-142. (1973)

Theory of Collective Behavior. Neil J. Smelser. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul and New York: The Free Press of Glencoe. (1962)