APPENDIX: Methodology


This study reports the results of confidential, in-depth interviews with twenty-nine leaders in California. The leaders were selected with the help of a distinguished advisory panel consisting of Governor George Deukmejian, Daniel Garcia, Sidney Harman and Clark Kerr. Although this is in no way intended to be a representative sample, the panel was designed to represent a wide variety of perspectives and view points. The panel includes both men and women, Republicans, Democrats and Independents, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, Caucasians and Latinos. We deliberately excluded higher education professionals (active professors and administrators), but a follow-up project is planned which will survey academics. The respondents agreed to have their names listed (see below) on the condition that their specific comments would not be for attribution.

Each of the panelists was asked to react to a synopsis of Time for Decision, a draft report issued by the Center in March 1994. The synopsis gave the respondents a common focus and a common starting point but they generally used the interview as a springboard for their own thinking. The respondents were interviewed in telephone conversations which typically lasted 45 minutes. The comments were transcribed and analyzed for common themes and areas of diversity and consensus. The interviews were conducted between August and November 1994. With such a varied group, of course, there are only a few things where we found virtual unanimity. Nonetheless, there are a number of areas of high consensus where many of the leaders (at least three quarters) agree in one way or another, and other areas of considerable controversy.


INTERVIEWEES

Joseph F. Alibrandi
Chairman & CEO
Whittaker Corporation

Mary G.F. Bitterman
President & CEO
KQED, Inc.

Otis Chandler
Retired Publisher,
Los Angeles Times
Former CEO & Current Board Member
Times Mirror Company

Roger Clay, Jr.
Partner
Goldfarb & Lipman

George Deukmejian
Former Governor of California
Partner, Sidley & Austin

Louis Friedman
Executive Vice President
E. &AMPJ. Gallo Winery

Milton Friedman
Senior Research Fellow
Hoover Institution

James C. Gaither
Partner
Cooley, Godward, Castro,
Huddleson & Tatum

Daniel P. Garcia
Senior Vice President
Real Estate Planning and
Public Affairs
Warner Brothers

John Gardner
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

Frank O. Gehry
Principal in Charge
Frank O. Gehry & Associates

Laura Geller
Senior Rabbi
Temple Emanuel

Madelyn Glickfeld
Academic Director
The Streisand Center for
Conservancy Studies

Sidney Harman
Chairman
Harman International
Industries, Inc.

Louis H. Heilbron
Retired Partner
Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe

Gary H. Hunt
Executive Vice President
Irvine Company

Larry Jinks
Former Publisher
San Jose Mercury News

Clark Kerr
President Emeritus
University of California

Stewart Kwoh
Executive Director & President
Asian Pacific American Legal Center

Estella Martinez
Community Liaison
OPTIMA

Edwin Meese III
Ronald Reagan Fellow in Public Policy
The Heritage Foundation

Fernando Olguin
Director of Education
Mexican American Legal Defense
& Educational Fund

Peter Schrag
Editorial Page Editor
Sacramento Bee

Ellen Severoni
Executive Director
California Health Decisions

Joe Shapiro
Executive Vice President
The Walt Disney Company

Brenda Shockley
President
Community Build

Harold Williams
President & CEO
J. Paul Getty Trust

Robert Wycoff
President Emeritus
Atlantic Richfield Company

Narda Zacchino
Associate Editor
Los Angeles Times


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