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.