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Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Seeds of Something Different: An Oral History of the University of California, Santa Cruz
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    • Timeline: An Institutional History of UC Santa Cruz
    • EXPLORE BY CHAPTER
      • Ch. 1: Histories of Santa Cruz
      • Ch. 2: Envisioning A New Campus of the University of California, 1956-1961
      • Ch. 3: Planning the Santa Cruz Campus: 1961-1965
      • Ch. 4: Finding Faculty for the Experiment
      • Ch. 5: Cowell, Stevenson, and the Dream Becomes Reality
      • Ch. 6: An Unexpected Flourishing of the Sciences
      • Ch. 7: The Chadwick Garden and the Arboretum
      • Ch. 8: The Rising Counterculture
      • Ch. 9: The Vietnam War, Academic Freedom, and Campus Activism
      • Ch. 10: Escalating Protests and a Campus Divided
      • Ch. 11: "The Changing City on a Hill"
      • Ch. 12: "A Male Academic Locker Room"
      • Ch. 13: Kresge College
      • Ch. 14: Radical Feminism and Gay Liberation
      • Ch. 15: The Formation of College Five and the Kindling of the Arts
      • Ch. 16: The Genesis of Environmental Studies and College Eight
      • Ch. 17: The Building College-Board Crisis and the End of the McHenry Era
      • Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction
      • Ch. 19: Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer and the "Reorganization" of the Experiment
      • Ch. 20: A Growing UCSC in the Community
      • Ch. 21: Finding a Place on a "Very White Campus"
      • Ch. 22: The Sinsheimer Era's Final Years
      • Ch. 23: Earthquakes: The Stevens Years
      • Ch. 24: A "Maturing" Campus Considers Its Direction
      • Ch. 25: Chancellor Karl Pister
      • Ch. 26: Affirmative Action and Diversity in a Hostile Climate
      • Ch. 27: UCSC as a Leader in the Research Sciences
      • Ch. 28: Conventional Grading, Graduate Education, and New Priorities
      • Ch. 29: Inventing and Reinventing Interdisciplinarity
      • Ch. 30: Often Invisible, Underpaid, and Overworked: Staff and Lecturers
      • Ch. 31: Still Pioneering: A New Experiment in College Nine and Ten
      • Ch. 32: The Brief and Tragic Tenure of Chancellor Denice Denton
      • Ch. 33: An Acting Chancellor in a Time of Instability
      • Ch. 34: Endings and Beginnings in a Time of Austerity
      • Ch. 35: The Continuing Story of Protest at UCSC
      • Ch. 36: What We Value Now: UCSC at Fifty
      • Ch. 37: The 2016 Election, Reaction, and Resistance
      • Coda

Ch. 18: A Crisis of Leadership and a Search for New Direction

"Meet Chancellor Christensen" poster. 1974.

"Meet Chancellor Christensen" poster, 1974

College 7 (Oakes College) dedication: retired chancellor Dean McHenry at the podium with Daniel Koshland, Sr., Herman Blake, Chancellor Mark Christensen, and unidentified woman

Dean McHenry, College Seven (Oakes College) dedication, 1974

John A. Marcum, Merrill College Provost, Professor of Politics. 1972.

John A. Marcum, Merrill College Provost, Professor of Politics, 1972

College Eight Provost Paul Niebanck. 1974.

College Eight Provost Paul Niebanck, 1974

Daniel H. McFadden, assistant chancellor of public affairs. 1975.

Daniel H. McFadden, Assistant Chancellor of Public Affairs, 1975

Robert F. "Bob" Adams, Professor of Economics. 1978.

Robert F. "Bob" Adams, Professor of Economics, 1978

College Night Panel Discussion "The Middle Years."

Lecture (audio): College Night Panel Discussion "The Middle Years," 1987

Oral Histories

  • Daniel H. McFadden: The Chancellor Mark Christensen Era at UC Santa Cruz, 1974-1976
  • UC Santa Cruz in the Mid-1970s: A Time of Transition, Volume I. An Oral History with John Marcum, Sigfried Puknat, Robert Adams, John Ellis, and Paul Niebanck
  • UC Santa Cruz in the Mid-1970s: A Time of Transition, Volume II. An Oral History with Professor George Von der Muhll
  • Angus E. Taylor: UCSC Chancellorship, 1976-1977

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