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Paper based on keynote address at the conference “Rethinking the SAT: The Future of Standardized Testing in University Admissions,” University of California, Santa Barbara, November 16, 2001. Published in Issues in Science and Technology, Winter 2001-02.

Keynote address at the 2001 International Assembly of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, San Francisco, July 2, 2001.

Opinion piece about initiatives to expand opportunities for students to achieve admission to UC.

Testimony on demand for the education doctorate before the California Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education.

Keynote address at the inauguration of President Akimasa Mitsuta, Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies, Japan, May 26, 2001.

Letter to the Regents about the top 100 US institutions for federal R&D expenditures in 1998-1999.

Opinion piece about elimination of the SAT I examination as a requirement for admission to the University of California.

Opinion piece about the role of standardized testing and the SAT I.

The 2001 Robert H. Atwell Distinguished Lecture, delivered at the Eighty-third Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., February 18, 2001.

Opinion piece about the partnership between the University of California and the California State University systems in contributing to the state’s economy.

Opinion piece on how basic research can help maintain the nation’s economic strength.

Letter to the Governor Gray Davis about the California Professional Development Initiatives, designed to improve teacher quality and student learning in California.

Letter to UC Academic Council chair proposing an alternative path to supplement the University’s current admissions process.

Letter to the Regents about an article in the March 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly on industry-university partnerships.

Article on challenges facing the University of California.

Article on Sproul’s presidency of the University of California.

Paper presented at the China-U.S. Joint Science Policy Seminar and published in Proceedings of the First Sino-US Science Policy Seminar (October 24-27, 1999), edited by Mu Rongping and W. A. Blanpied, Beijing, China: Science Press, 2000.

Opinion piece about UC’s efforts to boost community college-to-UC student transfers.

Opinion piece about the large numbers of students who will seek access to California’s colleges and universities in the next ten years,

Opinion piece about summer institutes for California’s K-12 teachers sponsored by UC and the California State University.

Opinion piece on the need for public investment in education and research.

Remarks at the Regents’ dinner, September 17, 1998.

Opinion piece about UC’s efforts to support K-12 education.

Opinion piece about the challenges of expanding opportunities for students without regard to race and ethnicity, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, April 1, 1998. Reprinted in the Los Angeles Daily News, the Santa Barbara News-Press, and the Oakland Tribune.

Remarks at the California Senate Fiscal Retreat, an annual policy forum for California political leaders sponsored by the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee and the UC California Policy Seminar.