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Download full textPelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2011
The one-university idea--that the University of California is a single institution whose campuses are united in the pursuit of a common mission and common standards of quality--has been a guiding organizational principle since UC President Robert Gordon Sproul first articulated it in the 1930s. This paper examines the origins of the one-university…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Intellectual History, Educational Development, Articulation (Education)
Atkinson, Richard C.; Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2010
The current and still-evolving role of the American research university has been shaped by four key developments in the past sixty-five years: the historic decision to establish a comprehensive postwar federal science policy, described in Vannevar Bush's 1945 report, "Science, The Endless Frontier;" the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980; economic analyses…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Research and Development, School Business Relationship, Scientific Research
Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2008
The 2005-6 executive compensation controversy at the University of California has been explained as the result of a massive breach of compliance with the University's compensation policies by the Office of the President (UCOP). For more than a decade, the explanation goes, UCOP failed to comply with its own compensation policies, embodied in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, College Presidents, Administrator Role, Compensation (Remuneration)
Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2008
This paper looks at the 1992-3 compensation controversy at the University of California in light of the factors that shaped the board's policy response to the controversy, the Principles for Review of Executive Compensation. It discusses the events of 1992-3 in the context of the public and political debate over the appropriate model for executive…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Universities, College Presidents, Administrator Role
Atkinson, Richard C.; Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2006
In July 1995, the University of California's Board of Regents voted to ban consideration of race and ethnicity in admissions and employment--a ban that was extended to all state agencies when the voters of California approved Proposition 209 in November 1996. This paper discusses the national controversy over affirmative action and analyzes the…
Descriptors: Democracy, Affirmative Action, Governing Boards, State Agencies
Atkinson, Richard C.; Pelfrey, Patricia A. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2004
In the aftermath of SP-1 and Proposition 209, the University of California has adopted several strategies in order to maintain access. In the long term, the university seeks to work with individual students to improve their academic preparation and to expand partnerships with the K-12 public sector. The state's need to educate more of its minority…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Partnerships in Education, College Bound Students
