The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967: Volume One: Academic Triumphs Book

	List of Figures and Tables	XV
	Foreword	XIX
	Preface	XXIX
Part I.	Introduction
1.	Getting to Know Berkeley	3
	How I Got Started at Berkeley
	How I Got Committed to Industrial Relations
	The GIs
	The Loyalty Oath
	My Life before Berkeley
	Hard work and a caring community
	Education
	Peaceful Solutions
2.	A Giant Astride the University: An Appreciation of Robert Gordon Sproul	16
Part II.	The First Chancellor at Berkeley, 1952-58
3.	Answering the Big Question: Who Will Take Berkeley's Place in the Academic Big Six?	23
	Support for the Chancellorship and the Agenda
	"Who will take Berkeley's place?"
	An agenda for advancing the answer, "no one"
	The Chancellor's Office
	My Approach to the Chancellorship
	Did Sproul Make a Mistake?
	The "x" Factor
4.	Defining a Chancellor's Sphere of Action	39
	The Old Provostship
	The New Context
	Thrusts and Parries
	Battles over Decentralization
	The campus business manager
	Department chairs
	Information and participation
	The chancellor's staff
	How It Turned Out
5.	"The Best Balanced Distinguished University"	56
	What Berkeley Had Going for It
	The Berkeley Campus Takes Charge of Its Future
	Departmental life
6.	Getting Ready for the Tidal Wave	71
	Berkeley's Historic 27,500 Cap
	Reaching Up to the Top
	The Berkeley Cap in a Larger Context
	Academic Planning within the 27,500
	Choosing Academic Priorities
	Forty Years Later
7.	Improving Facilities for Student Life at Berkeley	90
	Traditions at Berkeley
	My Efforts at Change--German to British
	Side Effects
	A New Look at Student Affairs
	Athletics
	Consequences
	Reprise
8.	A New Physical Development Plan for Berkeley	111
	A Vision of Greatness--Phoebe Apperson Hearst
	A New Approach to Planning--1956
	The McLaughlin-Wurster-Kerr Committee and the BCDC
	The New Process and Some Problems
	Parking space on campus
	The City of Berkeley
	Sacramento
	Facilities for Cultural Life--Sparta to Athens
	The Campus as a Park
	Failures and Unexpected Consequences
	Goals for Accomplishment
	Forty Years Later
9.	Responding to Some Post-Loyalty Oath Legacies	129
	The "Red Chancellor" of the "Red Campus"
	"Sins" and Sensitivities
	League for Industrial Democracy
	Paul Taylor
	Institute of Industrial Relations
	Lloyd Fisher
	Pacific Coast waterfront
	Support of nonsigners
	An End to the Oath Controversy
10.	Reprise and Prelude: Three Struggles Over the University's Orientation--1870, 1900, and 1950	143
	The Yale-Gilman Model
	The Wheeler-Sproul-Academic Senate Model
	The Twenty-First-Century Federal Model
Part III.	The Presidency of the University: Overarching Issues, 1958-67
11.	A New Agenda for the Reorientation of the University	153
	Much to Do about Everything
	Staff--dramatis personae
	A Favorable Context
	Introducing New Styles of Administration
	Problems Appearing on the Horizon
	A broad outline of the most pressing problems
12.	A Master Plan for Higher Education in California	172
	Facing the Crisis
	Developing the Master Plan
	Last-Minute Resistance and a "Summit"
	What the Master Plan Did
	The Plan in Operation
	Resources
	Process
	The Vision
	The Master Plan Forty Years Later
13.	Moving from Unitary to Pluralistic Decision-Making (1957-59)	191
	Historical Background
	Action
	The presidency
	The chancellorship
	Faculty governance
	Board of Regents
	Consultation
	Consequences
	End of the Corley empire
	The detail of decentralization
14.	A Second Look at Decentralization (1965) and a Failed Proposal	206
	Actions by the Regents
	Regal Functions
15.	Reconsiderations	219
	Observations
	An appraisal of changes, 1951-66
	An appraisal of changes since 1966
	Governance in Comparative Perspective
	Auditing
	Long-range planning
	Participation in academic governance
	Comments
	One university
	An overall review of governance
Part IV.	Nine Campuses
16.	Creation of Three Campuses	235
	Basic Decisions at the Universitywide Level
	Site Selection and Development
	San Diego
	Irvine
	Santa Cruz
	Early Leadership
	Roger Revelle
	Daniel Aldrich
	Dean McHenry
	Spouses
17.	Original Directions and Problems at the New Campuses	254
	San Diego
	Irvine
	Santa Cruz
	The origin of the "dream"
	The Godkin lectures
	Other inspirations
	The plan and its early difficulties
18.	Mass Transformations and Administered Alterations	267
	Popular Demand
	The research university's rise
	Emphasis on equality of opportunity
	More vocational studies
	The counterculture
	Administered Academic Innovations
	Irvine's Adjusted model
	San Diego's Modified Model
19.	Innovations and Reactions at Santa Cruz	277
	An Outline of the Original Santa Cruz
	History Was Destructive
	A neoclassical model and its demise
	Countercultural programs
	Backlashes
	Stabilization in a multiversity direction
	Personal Impressions
20.	Reconsiderations on Attempts at Academic Change	289
	Alternative Approaches
	Evaluations
	Santa Cruz compared with what?
	Lessons we learned at the three new campuses
	A Dream Too Far?
	Postscript
	Addendum: Clark Kerr's Remarks to the UCSC Pioneer Class Reunion (April 17, 1999)
21.	Transformations at Davis and Santa Barbara	302
	Davis--A Contented Campus
	Santa Barbara--A Cinderella Campus
22.	Transformations at Riverside and San Francisco	313
	Riverside--A Split Personality
	San Francisco--A Revolt and a Coup
	The faculty's unrest
	A realignment
	A Vision of the Future
23.	A Place in the Sun for Ucla	327
	Decisive Actions
	The suggestion of General Mark Clark as chancellor
	Not "controversial" in any respect
	Ralph Bunche
	Franklin Murphy
	Sproul and the UCLA deans
	Subsequent academic rankings
	Triumphs
24.	Clouds Obscure Berkeley's Sun	347
	Irritations and Rivalries
	A Controversy over Autonomy
	The Kent report
Part V.	Universitywide Innovations
25.	Academic Affairs	361
	The Library Plan--Academic Success, Political Disaster
	Medical School Developments
	Cultural Programs--The Arts and Humanities
	A Natural Reserve System
26.	Student Life	375
	Improving Physical Facilities
	Establishing Education Abroad
	Advancing Equality of Opportunity
	Making ROTC Voluntary
	Reducing Discrimination
	Taking Control of Intercollegiate Athletics
27.	Structural Adjustments	385
	Efforts to Recruit and Retain Faculty--Generally Successful
	Retirement
	Faculty salaries
	Efforts to Make Better Use of Resources--Mostly Disappointments
	Year-round operations
	Duplication of programs
	Other items
Part VI.	Outcomes at the End of the Century
28.	Pure Gold and Some Dross	403
	Academic Rankings
	"Most distinguished"
	"Best balanced"
	Per capita strength
	Other comparisons
	Rankings by Test Scores and by Persistence Rates
	A summary
	Conclusion
	The best tempered by the worst
	Paradise lost: Is the view of gold coming to an end?
	Addendum: Excerpts from David S. Webster and Tad Skinner's Report on the University's Outstanding Rankings
Appendix 1.	Honor Roll of University Leaders	443
A.	Ranking of deans and chairs of colleges, schools, and departments, 1952-62
B.	Members of Academic Senate's Academic Personnel Committee, 1952-62
C.	Members of Academic Senate's Committee on Committees, 1952-62
D.	Members of Academic Senate's Committee on Educational Policy, 1954-58
E.	Members of Academic Advisory Committee, 1954-58
F.	Individual faculty honors, 1962-63
G.	Members of California Alumni Association board and alumni project committee, 1947-49
H.	ASUC presidents and vice presidents, 1952-58
I.	Members of Buildings and Campus Development Committee, fall 1953 to spring 1956
J.	University liaison committee with City of Berkeley
K.	Members of Board of Regents, 1958-66
Appendix 2.	University of California Administration and Governance	458
A.	A recipe for mutual discord
B.	Excerpts from Joel H. Hildebrand's remarks to the Academic Senate
C.	Chronology of administrative decentralization, 1958-66
D.	Excerpt from Clark Kerr's 1958 inaugural address at UCLA
E.	Additional comments on university governance
F.	Further suggestions for the university's review of governance
Appendix 3.	Indicators of Growth in the University of California	470
A.	Comparative enrollments at UC campuses 1960-97
B.	Annual net increases in bound library volumes held
Appendix 4.	List of Documentary Supplements	474
	Notes	477
	Acknowledgments	499
	Credits	507
	Index	509