UC History Books by CSHE Affiliated Authors (by Year)

A listing of past and recent books that relate to the history of the University of California, higher education systems, and great universities throughout the world:

• Smelser, N.J. (2013). Dynamics of the contemporary university: Growth, accretion, and conflict. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  
  

• Pelfrey, P. (2012). Entrepreneurial president: Richard Atkinson and the University of California, 1995-2003. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  
  

• Rothblatt, S. (Ed.). (2012). Clark Kerr's world of higher education reaches the 21st century: Chapters in a special history. Higher Education Dynamics Vol 38. New York, NY: Springer.
  
  

• González, C. (2011). Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, diversity, and planning in higher education. Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
  
  

• Smelser, N.J. (2010). Reflections on the University of California: From the free speech movement to the global university. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  
  

• Merritt, K., & Lawrence, J.F. (2007). From rangeland to research university: The birth of University of California, Merced. New Directions in Higher Education, 2007 (139). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  
  

• The Pursuit of Knowledge: Speeches and Papers of Richard C. Atkinson, Patricia A. Pelfrey, ed. University of California Press (2007).
  
  

• Douglass, J.A. (2007). The conditions for admission: Access, equity, and the social contract of public universities. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.
  
  

• Rothblatt, S. (2006). Education’s abiding moral dilemma: Merit and worth in the cross-Atlantic democracies, 1800-2006. Oxford: Symposium Books.
  
  

• Gardner, D. (2005) Earning My Degree: Memoirs of an American University President. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
  
  

• Pelfrey, P. (2004). A brief history of the University of California. (2nd ed.). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  
  

• The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967. Volume Two: Political Turmoil. Clark Kerr. Berkeley: University of California Press. 458 pages. (February 2003)
  
  

• The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967: Volume One: Academic Triumphs. Clark Kerr. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 585 pages.
  
  

• Douglass, J.A. (2000). The California idea and American Higher Education, 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press.
  
  

• Trow, M. (1999). Essays on the Transformation of Higher Education in Advanced Industrial Societies (in Japanese). Tokyo: Tamagawa University Press.

• Mueller-Boelling, D., Mayer, E., MacLachlan, A., & Fedrowitz, J.  (Eds.). (1998). University in transition: Research mission, interdisciplinarity and governance. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation.
  
  

• Rothblatt, S. (1968). The revolution of the dons, Cambridge and society in victorian England. London: Faber and Faber. (reissued with new introduction by Cambridge University Press in 1981).
  
  

• Rothblatt, S. (1976). Tradition and change in English liberal education: An essay in history and culture. London: Faber and Faber.
  
  

• Rothblatt, S.  (1997).  The modern university and its discontents.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  
  

• Smelser, N.J., & Almond, G. (Ed.). (1974). Public higher education in California. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
  
  

• Trow, M. (1972). The expansion and transformation of higher education. Morristown, New Jersey: General Learning Press.