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Academic triumphs : a personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967
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One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkel...
One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university through its golden years--a time of both great advancement and great conflict.
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- Creator
- Clark Kerr ; with a foreword by Neil J. Smelser
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2001
- ©2001
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- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 540 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates)
- ISBNs
- 9780520925014, 0520925017, 9781597346399, 159734639X, 0520223675
- OCLC
- ocn475931063
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Preface; Getting to Know Berkeley; A Giant Astride the University: An Appreciation of Robert Gordon Sproul; Answering the Big Question: Who Will Take Berkeley's Place in the Academic Big Six?; Defining a Chancellor's Sphere of Actions; ""The Best Balanced Distinguished University""; Getting Ready for the Tidal Wave; Improving Facilities for Student Life at Berkeley; A New Physical Development Plan for Berkeley; Responding to Some Post-Loyalty Oath Legacies; Reprise and Prelude: Three Struggles over the University's Orientation--1870, 1900, and 1950
- A New Agenda for the Reorientation of the University A Master Plan for Higher Education in California; Moving from Unitary to Pluralistic Decision-Making (1957-59); A Second Look at Decentralization (1965) and a Failed Proposal; Reconsiderations; Creation of Three Campuses; Original Directions and Problems at the New Campuses; Mass Transformations and Administered Alterations; Innovations and Reactions at Santa Cruz; Reconsiderations on Attempts at Academic Change; Transformations at Davis and Santa Barbara; A Place in the Sun for UCLA; Clouds Obscure Berkeley's Sun; Academic Affairs
- Student Life Structural Adjustments; Pure Gold and Some Dross; Appendix 1: Honor Roll of University Leaders; Appendix 2: University of California Administration and Governance; Appendix 3: Indicators of Growth in the University of California; Appendix 4: List of Documentary Supplements; Notes; Acknowledgments; Credits; Index