Review: Aspirations for Excellence: Alexander Jackson Davis and the First Campus Plan for the University of Michigan, 1838 by Julia M. Truettner; John Galen Howard and the University of California: The Design of a Great Public University by Sally B. Woodbridge

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Barbara S. Christen
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The University

William Wallace Campbell, 1862-1938

1939 ◽  
Vol 2 (7) ◽  
pp. 613-619 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Mount Wilson Observatory ◽  
Hancock County ◽  
The World ◽  
High Esteem ◽  
The University

This great astronomer died on 15 June 1938. In a pathetic letter to his wife he explained that his complete blindness in one eye, approaching blindness in the other eye, and still more the fear of losing his reason would make him nothing but a burden to his wife and fam ily and so had few regrets on leaving the world. The high esteem in which he was held was testified by the pall-bearers at his funeral. These included the Governor of the State of California, the Acting President and Officials of the University, the Director, the late Director of the Lick Observatory, and the Director of the Mount Wilson Observatory. William Wallace Campbell was born on 11 April 1862 in a farm in Hancock County, Ohio. H e became a student of the University of Michigan and took the degree of B.S. in the faculty of Engineering. He was appointed Professor of Mathematics in the University of Colorado, but two years later, at considerable financial sacrifice, returned to the University of Michigan as Instructor in Astronomy. In 1891 he was appointed Astronomer at the Lick Observatory, and remained there till 1923, when he yielded reluctantly to the pressure put upon him to accept the post of President of the University of California.

scholarly journals The Road to Private Prison Divestment

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-103
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Black Student ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Private Prisons ◽  
University System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Youth Organization ◽  
Private Prison ◽  
The University ◽  
Prison Abolition

Until December 2015, the University of California maintained $25 million of indirect investments in three major private prison corporations and almost no one knew. The UC is now the first U.S. public university system to sell its shares in private prisons, however it was activism that propelled the victory. Black students from the Afrikan Black Coalition, a statewide Black youth organization, used research from Enlace and strategic planning to demand private prison divestment. This personal reflection on the path toward prison abolition examines some of the strengths and resurgence of Black student organizing in the era of #BlackLivesMatter.

scholarly journals ROBERT E. WARD

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 379-380
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Gerson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Science ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Professor Emeritus ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
World War ◽  
Japanese Studies ◽  
The University

Professor Emeritus Robert E. Ward of Stanford University died at the age of 93 on December 7, 2009, in Portola Valley, California. Dr. Ward was a professor of political science and the first director of the Center for Research in International Studies at Stanford University from 1973 to 1987. He was also a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution. Dr. Ward received his B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1936 and his Ph.D. from the University of California (Berkeley) in 1948. During World War II, he served in U.S. Naval Intelligence, receiving the Legion of Merit award. From 1948 to 1973, Dr. Ward was on the faculty of the University of Michigan. Professor Ward joined the Stanford faculty in 1973, serving as a professor of political science from 1973 to 1987 and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies from 1965 to 1968 and 1971 to 1973.

From Witchcraft to ‘Grande Hystérle’ Three Hundred Years of Psychiatry

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Allan Beveridge
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social History ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Social History Of Medicine

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London (£45, 149 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Michael MacDonald, Professor of History at the University of Michigan. George Cheyne: The English Malady (1733) (£40, 370 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Roy Porter, Senior Lecturer in the social history of medicine at the Wellcome institute for the History of Medicine, London. The Asylum as Utopia (£40, 240 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Andrew Scull, Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System by J. M. Charcot (£45, 438 pp., 1991) is edited with an introduction by Ruth Harris, Fellow of Modern History at New College, Oxford. All four titles are published by Tavistock/Routledge, London, in a series of facsimile editions.

“How Can We Avoid a Columbia?”

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-180
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz
Keyword(s):  
New Hampshire ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Universities And Colleges ◽  
Student Protests ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Clark Kerr ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of New Hampshire

American universities were unprepared for the explosion of student protests on their campuses in the mid-1960s. Consequently, trustees of many leading universities appointed their industrial relations professors—the National War Labor Board vets and their protégés—as their new presidents, chancellors, and top deans. Clark Kerr botched the job at the University of California at Berkeley, but the Labor Board vets were more successful elsewhere. They not only mediated conflicts on their campuses but designed conflict-resolution systems that remain in place at universities and colleges throughout the nation. Their systems drew on the models they created with unions and management in the 1940s. This chapter explains the development by focusing on Robben Fleming at the University of Michigan, John McConnell at the University of New Hampshire, and John Dunlop at Harvard University.

scholarly journals Affirmative action, critical mass, and a predictive model of undergraduate student body demographics

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. e0250266
Author(s):  
Daniel P. Maes ◽  
Julia Tucher ◽  
Chad M. Topaz
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Critical Mass ◽  
Public University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The University

Black and Latinx students are underrepresented on most public university campuses. At the same time, affirmative action policies are controversial and legally fraught. The Supreme Court has ruled that affirmative action should help a minoritized group achieve a critical mass of representation. While the idea of critical mass is frequently invoked in law and in policy, the term remains ill-defined and hence difficult to operationalize. Motivated by these challenges, we build a mathematical model to forecast undergraduate student body racial/ethnic demographics on public university campuses. Our model takes the form of a Markov chain that tracks students through application, admission, matriculation, retention, and graduation. Using publicly available data, we calibrate our model for two different campuses within the University of California system, test it for accuracy, and make a 10-year prediction. We also propose a coarse definition of critical mass and use our model to assess progress towards it at the University of California-Berkeley. If no policy changes are made over the next decade, we predict that the Latinx population on campus will move towards critical mass but not achieve it, and that the Black student population will decrease, moving further below critical mass. Because affirmative action is banned in California and in nine other states, it is worthwhile to consider alternative policies for diversifying a campus, including targeted recruitment and retention efforts. Our modeling framework provides a setting in which to test the efficacy of affirmative action and of these alternative policies.

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