The way it was : the University of Iowa, 1964-1989 / D.C. Spriestersbach.

Spriestersbach, D. C.

C378.777655 S769way

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1999.

xv, 263 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"Drawing upon his personal files, the university archives, and interviews with many faculty members and administrators, Duane Spriestersbach has created both an institutional and a personal history of the University of Iowa. Judged by any standard, these years were tumultuous ones for higher education. Economic pressures from the state legislature, issues surrounding grants from such agencies as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation, the civil rights movement, student and faculty protests during the Vietnam era, massive changes in the physical and administrative shape of the campus, and the computerization of all parts of campus life had far-reaching consequences."--BOOK JACKET. "Spriestersbach's account of the Vietnam years and of the evolution of computers at Iowa will be particularly interesting to readers."--BOOK JACKET.

University of Iowa -- History -- 20th century.

Spriestersbach, D. C.

College administrators -- Iowa -- Iowa City -- Biography.

Includes index.

The Bowen Years, 1964-1969 -- The Boyd Years, 1969-1981 -- Seven Months in Charge: Sweet-Sour, 1981-1982 -- The Freedman Years, 1982-1987 -- The Remington Interim, 1987-1988 -- My Rawlings Year, 1988-1989 -- The Computer Invasion -- Student Unrest: The War and the Roses -- The Laser Center: Will-o'-the-Wisp -- Commentaries, 1995-1997.

0877456666 (alk. paper)