The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan (original) (raw)
2001, The American Historical Review
... Lyman Glenny, Howard Bowen, Duncan Mellichamp, Calvin Moore, Richard Jensen, and my colleagues at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (University of CaliforniaBerkeley), in particular Arnie Leiman, and also Marian Gade, Diane Harley, Carroll Brentano, and ...
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