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California Schoolin': The Rocky Road to the Master Plan

Biographies of Californians are abundant, while there are few of the state itself. FromJosiah Royce's repentant picture in 1886 of gold rush barbarity, followed by Hubert Howe Bancroft's formidable records, then on to Robert Glass Cleland's and Walton Bean's surveys, and finally down to Kevin Starr's recently enlightening and vivid works, the list is short. Specific areas of California life regularly receive their due from publishersmotion picture and wine industries, water supplies or other endangered natural resources, transportation lines, expanding cities, and of course there are always picture books. But one great area stands virtually untouched. Beyond a few histories of colleges and universities, no comprehensive, modern history of California public higher education exists. Now at last someone has masterfully carved out a large portion of this vast topic. Obvious but overlooked, the subject has been waiting for a patient and inventive scholar like John Aubrey Douglass, dedicated to digging in state and university archives, education department and postsecondary commission records, committee files, and newspapers. Douglass has produced unique educational history, neither curricular nor singularly institutional, one that is new to California and unwritten for other states. The book is not about doings within the academy. It tells of representative state government groping toward sponsorship of higher education. "Public" here means legislated or born out of not always agreeable meetings among political factions, civic boosters, and administrative bureaucrats, high or low, from state agencies or the academy. University histories in other states have generally introduced these elements as background but have lost them in recounting campus growth. From a melange of competing interests, all professing common purpose,