Description
When he retired as president of the University of California in
1995, Jack W. Peltason could look back on nearly half a century of
teaching, scholarship, and exemplary administrative leadership in the
academic world. His oral history, while focusing on his three years as
president and his chancellorship at UC Irvine, also explores his family
and childhood in Kansas and Missouri and his experiences in higher
education from Massachusetts to Illinois, Washington, D.C., and
California.