“Something Special to Offer”: Meritocracy in the Universities

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Civil Servant ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
Sat Scores ◽  
Undergraduate Admissions ◽  
The World ◽  
Classless Society ◽  
The University

Life, as the poets have observed, imitates art. Nicholas Lemann has produced the most fascinating brief against meritocracy since Michael Young's 1957 novel that gave the world the term. And Lemann's critique is in a way prefigured in the populist “Chelsea Manifesto” that appears near the end of Young's The Rise of the Meritocracy: The classless society would be one which both possessed and acted upon plural values. Were we to evaluate people, not only according to their intelligence and their education, their occupation, and their power, but according to their kindliness and their courage, their imagination and sensitivity, their sympathy and generosity, there could be no classes. Who would be able to say that the scientist was superior to the porter with admirable qualities as a father, the civil servant with unusual skill at gaining prizes superior to the lorry-driver with unusual skill at growing roses? The Lemann Manifesto, so to speak, does not appear until the Afterword of The Big Test, but its message permeates “The Master Plan,” the second part of the book. In this section, Lemann takes on the postwar rise of the University of California system and the transformation of old “Episcopacy” institutions such as Yale into academic powerhouses with highly selective undergraduate admissions. He also introduces the issue of race and the apparent contradiction that low African-American SAT scores pose to the idea of meritocracy as a fair system of social mobility.

Shirley Winifred Jeffrey 1930–2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon W. Wright ◽  
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff ◽  
R. Fauzi C. Mantoura
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Hospital Medical School ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
King's College ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
The World ◽  
Oceanographic Research ◽  
The University

Australian scientist Shirley Jeffrey was a pioneer in oceanographic research, identifying the thentheoretical chlorophyll c, and was a worldwide leader in the application of pigment methods in quantifying phytoplankton as the foundation of the oceanic food supply. Her research paved the way for the successful application of microalgae in aquaculture around the world. Jeffrey earned bachelor's and master's degrees at University of Sydney, majoring in microbiology and biochemistry, followed by a PhD from the King's College London Hospital Medical School. Returning to Sydney, she was hired by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to research chlorophyll c. Following this successful effort, she became a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1962 to 1964. She then became affiliated with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research. After a 1973 sabbatical at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, she returned to CSIRO, where she spent the rest of her career.

Using Stanislavsky's Toolkit for Shakespeare's Richard III, Part II: Research on the Self in the Play

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Bella Merlin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Shakespeare And Company ◽  
Consequences Of Violence

An actor's training continues throughout his/her professional career, yet they rarely have the time or inclination to write in detail about their processes, when building a character, to provide documents for inquisitive peers. In this two-part article, Bella Merlin articulates the discoveries made playing Margaret in Richard III at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Summer 2012, directed by internationally acclaimed actor-director Tina Packer (co-founder of Shakespeare and Company with Kristin Linklater in 1978). Merlin highlights how the shift from teacher to actor reactivates the ‘willing vulnerability’ that she demands of her own students. She focuses on Stanislavsky's three avenues of research: on the playtext; on the world of the play and playwright; and on the self. There can be resistance by some theatre practitioners to the application of Stanislavsky's tools to Shakespeare's texts, often due to a perceived over-psychologizing. In these articles Merlin challenges some of these resistances. She demonstrates that Packer's insistence on connecting voice with thought to release the imagination implicitly harnesses Shakespeare's structure with Stanislavsky's underpinnings. Packer also lays emphasis on contemporary resonance, freeing the natural voice, and the significance of Shakespeare's female characters in Richard III for awakening an audience to the consequences of violence. The journey is unsettlingly personal and startlingly global. In Part I, in NTQ 113, Merlin addressed research on the text and research on the play, drawing upon history, biography, accounts of grief, and chilling footage of the Rwandan genocide. In Part II, which follows, she uses the immediacy of a rehearsal journal to address research on the self. Bella Merlin is an actor, writer, and actor-trainer. Acting includes seasons at the National Theatre with Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint Company. Publications include The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (2007) and Acting: the Basics (2010). She is currently Professor of Acting at the University of California, Davis.

scholarly journals Üniversite Yerleşkelerinde Peyzaj Master Planları

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 2603-2611
Author(s):  
Sefer Çon ◽  
Zöhre Polat
Keyword(s):  
Development Process ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
University Campus ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Master Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

The concept of the university campus and research, taken up the development process of the universities, presented examples from the world and Turkey. Master plans, sustainable master plans and landscape master plans in university campuses were compiled and supported with examples. According to the survey, which examined 20 universities in 16 of the world where the campus master plan, which examined 20 universities in Turkey 12 patients which were put forward in the campus master plan. World in 7 of 10 universities surveyed across the campus landscape master plan that, while Turkey’s 10 universities discussed in general only 2 of the campus landscape master plan was put out to be. Suggestions regarding the necessity of preparing master plan and landscape master plan in university campuses are presented.

Converting to a Synchronous Virtual Nursing Research Conference Amidst a Pandemic: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Lilian J. Canamo ◽  
Jessica P. Bejar ◽  
Judy E. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
University Of California ◽  
World Health ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Research Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

University of California San Diego Health was set to launch its 13th annual Nursing and Inquiry Innovation Conference event in June 2020. However, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed a barrier to large gatherings throughout the world. Because the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the University committed to continuing the large-scale conference, converting to a virtual event. This article reviews the methodologies behind the delivery of the virtual event and implications for user engagement and learning on the blended electronic platform.

China as great power: from red menace to green giant?

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
Environmental Stresses ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

China's standing in the world—whether it is, or is seen to be, a great power—is a question of signal importance because of what great powers are capable of doing, what effects their actions and words have on others, and what is expected of them. By most conventional measures, China is at least on the verge of being a great power. Yet the country also occupies a pivotal global position in terms of its present and expected future impact on the environment. In the final analysis, because greatness is so much a function of a willingness to shoulder responsibility and demonstrate leadership, China's standing as a great power may well be determined by the country's response to the acute environmental stresses it faces. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd on behalf of The Regents of the University of California.

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.

The Citrus Coccidae of the World; an Appeal for Co-operation and Aid

1925 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-282
Author(s):  
Joseph Conrad Chamberlin
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Distribution ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Experiment Station ◽  
The World ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Recorded Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Laborious Work ◽  
Preferred Hosts

About two months ago there was begun, under the auspices of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, the task of monographing, as adequately as possible, the Citrus Coccidae of the world. Obviously, the scope of such an undertaking is such that an enormous amount of laborious work is required in the compilation and synthesis of scattered and partially “buried” scraps of recorded data. Even this collated information will not meet the requirements of our problem. This is particularly the case as regards geographical distribution, alternate and preferred hosts, and proper correlation of the data of distribution and damage with that of the geographical distribution and economic status of Citrus itself.

Introduction

Prima Donna ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Paul Wink
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
University Of California ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Shed Light

The “Introduction” traces the author’s interest in Maria Callas to his initial forays into the world of opera as a psychology graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. It describes his research credentials as an expert in the fields of adult development and narcissism. A summary of major turning points in Callas’s life is used to show how the interplay between healthy (creativity) and less healthy (a split between an unintegrated sense of grandiosity and vulnerability) aspects of narcissism shed light on the magic of her artistry and the tragic ending to her life.

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions at Ten Years: Reflections on a Movement on the Rise

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Ajl
Keyword(s):  
Index Volume ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Real Target

<div class="bookreview">Rich Wiles, editor, <em>Generation Palestine</em> (London: Pluto Press, 2013), 256 pages, $24, paperback.</div>When in March 2012, Barack Obama paused briefly from approving orders for drone killings of Pakistani and Yemeni villagers, in order to reassure the attendees at the annual gala of the AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) that, "when there are efforts to boycott or divest from Israel, we will stand against them," the real target of his declaration was elsewhere: the myriad grassroots organizers across the world who have made the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns unignorable. Their mounting influence has provoked efforts to declare them anti-Semitic or illegal from London to Long Beach. In fact, the series of victories across the University of California system has so annoyed its managers that they have hauled in the Caesar of domestic repression, Janet Napolitano, to deal with campus activists. Obama's declaration of support for Israeli colonialism had a simple message to those many activists: back down, because Washington will not.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-2" title="Vol. 67, No. 2: June 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

Concluding remarks

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
Bob Bergland
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Federal Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

Much has been said here about misplaced priorities. I would like to add an example from my own experience. When I was Secretary, I visited the University of California at Davis to review federally funded research. The researchers there showed off a very expensive new piece of machinery developed largely by federal research funds. The machine was designed to pick square, green tomatoes. When I asked “What in the world is this all about?” they explained that we needed to find new ways to eliminate labor. Back in Washington, I asked the same question, and got the same answer.

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