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Richard C. Atkinson s eight-year tenure as president of the University of California (1995 2003) reflected the major issues facing California itself: the state s emergence as the world s leading knowledge-based economy and the rapidly expanding size and diversity of its population. As this selection of President Atkinson s speeches and papers reveals, his administration was marked by innovative approaches that deliberately shaped U.C. s role in this changing California. These writings tell the story of the national controversy over the SAT and Atkinson s successful challenge to the dominance of the seventy-five-year-old college entrance examination. They also highlight other issues with national significance: U.C. s experiments with race-neutral admissions programs; the challenges facing academic libraries and the University s pioneering activities with the California Digital Library; and the University s involvement in new paradigms of industry-university research. Together, these speeches and papers open a window on an eventful period in the history of the nation s leading public research university and the history of American higher education.

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