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Higher Education in General Selected Bibliography -- preliminary (3.22.02) Higher Education In General | University of California System | University of California, Berkeley | University of California, Davis | University of California, Irvine | University of California, Los Angeles | University of California, Riverside | University of California, San Diego | University of California, San Francisco | University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Santa Cruz| Higher Education in General General Books and Monographs Adams, Hazard. The Academic Tribes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. Axt, Richard G. The Federal Government and Financing Higher Education. New York: columbia University Press, 1952. Bailey, Stephen. "External Forces affecting Higher Education." NACUBO Professional File, 1975. Benjamin, Roger, Stephen Carroll et al. "The Redesign of Governance in Higher Education." Santa Monica: Institute on Education and Training, RAND, 1993. Berdahl, Robert O. "Coordination and Governance of Postsecondary Education: The U.S. Experience." Paper delivered at the Association for the Study of Higher Education, San Diego, 1984. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education Library. Blischke, William R, Timothy Lehmann, and Ernest G. Palola. Higher Education by Design: The Sociology of Planning. Berkeley: Center for REsearch and Development in Higher Education, University of California, Berkleey, 1970. Bonner, Thomas N. "Sputniks and the Educational Crisis in America." Journal of Higher Education 29:4 (April 1958), 177-84. Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life. New York: Basic Books Publishers, 1976. Brint, Steven, and Jerome Karabel. The Diverted Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Brubacher, John S. and Rudy, Willis. Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities. 4th edition. New Brunswick, N.J. and London: Transaction Publishers, 1997. Burns, Edward McNall. David Starr jordan: Prophet of Freedom. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1953. Callahan, Raymond. Education and the Cult of Efficiency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Chambers, Marritt Madison. The Campus and the People: Organization, Support and Control of Higher Education in the United States in the Nineteen Sixties. Danville, Ill.: The Interstate, 1960. Chambers, Marritt Madison. Freedom and Repression in Higher Education. Bloomington, Ind.: Bloomcraft, 1965.s Clark, Burton R. The Open Door College: A Case study. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1960. Cohen, Michael, and James G. March. Leadership and Ambiguity: The American College President. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974. Douglass, John Aubrey. The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Druyear, E.D. "The University and the State: A Historical Overview" in Philip G. Altbach and Robert O. Berdahl, eds., Higher Education in American Society. Buffaly, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1981, 20-33. Geiger, Roger. To Advance Knowledge: The Growth of American Research Universitites, 1900- 1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Geiger, Roger. Research and Relevant Knowledge: American research Universities Since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Glenny, Lyman A. Anatomy of Public Colleges. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Glenny, Lyman A. "State Systems and Plans for Higher Education." in Wilson, Emerging Patterns, 86. Graham, Hugh Davis, and Nancy Diamond. The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Gutek, Gerald Lee. An Historical Introduction to American Education. new York: Crowell, 1970. Hodgkinson, Harold L. Institutions in Transition: A Provile of Change in Higher Education. Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971. Jones, Lyle, G. Lindzey and Porter Coggeshall, eds. Assessment of Research-Doctoral Programs in the United States. Washington DC: National Academy Press, 1982. Kerr, Clark. The Great Transformation in Higher Education, 1960-1980. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991. Kerr, Clark. Higher Education Cannot Escape History: Issues for the Twenty First Century. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Kerr, Clark. The Intellectual vs. Society: A Source of Conflict? Irvine: University of California, Irvine, 1973. Kerr, Clark. Marshall, Marx, and Modern Times: The Multi-Dimensional Society. London: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Kerr, Clark, and Marian L. Gade. The Guardians: Boards of Trustees of American Colleges and Universities. Washington, D.C.:American Council on Education, 1989. Kerr, Clark, and Marian L. Gade. The Many Lives of Academic Presidents: Time, Place, and Character. Washinton, D.C.: Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 1986; 1989. Kuh, George D, et al. Involving Colleges: Successful Approaches to Fostering Student Learning and Development Outside the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1991. Millett, John D. Conflict in Higher Education: State Government Coordination Versus Institutional Independence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1984. Moos, Malcolm, and Frank Rourke. The Campus and the State Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Pres,, 1959. Riesman, David, and Verne A. Stadtman, eds. Academic Transformation: Seventeen Institutions Under Pressure. Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1973. Rothblatt, Sheldon. The Modern University and Its Disconents. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Rudolph, Frederick. Curriculum: A History of the American Undergraduate Course of Study Since 1636. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1977. Stadtman, Verne. Academic Adaptations: Higher Education Prepares for the 1980s and 1990s. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1980. Tyack, David. Turning Points in American Educational History. Waltham, Mass.: Blaisdell, 1967. Webster, David S. Academic Quality Rankings of American Colleges and Universities. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1986. Government Documents United States Legislature. "The Agricultural College Land Act, July 2, 1862." United States Statutes at Large, Article VIII, section 4, 503. Oral Histories, Memoirs, and Compilations "How We Talk and How We Act: Administrative Theory and Administrative Life." Seventh David D. Henry Lecture. September, 1980. University of Illinois. University of California System General Books and Monographs Adams, Ansel, and Nancy New Hall. Fiat Lux: The University of California, A Centennial Publication. New York: McGraw Hill Book Co., 1967. Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Almond, Gabriel, and Neil J. Smelser, eds. Public Higher Education in California. Berkeley: Universtiy of California Press, 1974. "Announcement of the Mining and Agricultural College, San Francisco, 1663-64," December 1863. In Pamphlets on The College of California, UCA. Armes, William Dallam, ed. The Autobiography of Joseph LeConte. New York: Appleton and Company, 1903. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. History of California. Seven vols. San Francisco: A.L. Bancroft, 1884- 1890. Barth, Gunther. California's Practical Period: A Cultural Context of the Emerging University, 1850s-1870s. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education and Institute of Governmental Studies, 1994. Bean, Walton E. "Ideas of Reform in California." In George H. Knoles, ed., Essays and ASsays: California History Reappraised. San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1973. Bean, Walton E. California: An Interpretive History, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Bowman, Jacob Neibert. "Reminiscences of the University of California, 1906." Bancroft Library, University of California Archives, Berkeley. Caughey. California: History of a Remarkable State. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940.ss The Centennial Record of the University of California. Berkeley: University of California Printing Department, 1967. Clifford, Geraldine Joncich. "Equally in View": The University of California, Its Women, and the Schools. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher education and Institute of Governmental Studies, 1995. Cloud, Roy W. Education in California: Leaders, Organizations, and Accomplishments of the First Hundred Years. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1952. Coons, Arthur G. Crises in California Higher Education. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Douglass, John A. A Brief on the Historical Development of the UC Academic Senate and the Universitywide Administration. Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, 1997. Falk, Charles J. The Development and Organization of Education in California. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. Fernham, Eliza. California In-Doors and Out, or, How We Farm, Mine, and Live Generally in the Golden State. New York: Dix, Edwards, 1856. Ferrier, William Warren. Origin and Development of the University of California. Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1930. Ferrier, William Warren. Ninety Years of Education in California, 1846-1936: A Presentation of Educational Movements and their Outcome in Education Today. Berkeley: Sather Gate Book Shop, 1937. Ferrier, William Warren. Henry Durant, First President University of California: The New Englander Who Came to California with College on the Brain. Berkeley: published by author, 1942. Ferris, David Frederic. "Judge Marvin and
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