By Clark Kerr
ISBN-10: 0520223675
ISBN-13: 9780520223677
One of many final century's such a lot influential figures in larger schooling, Clark Kerr was once a number one visionary, architect, chief, and fighter for the collage of California. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the collage from 1958 to 1967, Kerr observed the college via its golden years--a time of either nice development and nice clash. This soaking up memoir is an fascinating insider's account of the way the collage of California rose to the height of medical and scholarly stature and the way, lower than Kerr's specific management, the college developed into the establishment it's today.
during this first of 2 volumes, Kerr describes the personal lifetime of the college from his first stopover at to Berkeley as a graduate scholar at Stanford in 1932 to his dismissal below Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967. Early in his tenure as a professor, the Loyalty Oath factor erupted, and the college, rather the Berkeley campus, underwent its such a lot tough upheaval till the onset of the loose Speech circulate in 1964. Kerr discusses many pivotal advancements, together with the influence of the GI invoice and the evolution of the much-emulated 1960 California grasp Plan for better schooling. He additionally discusses the move for common entry to schooling and describes the institution and progress of every of the 9 campuses and the forces and visions that formed their specific identities.
Kerr's standpoint of greater than fifty years places him in a distinct place to evaluate which of the educational, structural, and scholar lifestyles ideas of the Fifties and Nineteen Sixties have confirmed winning and to contemplate what classes approximately better schooling we would research from that interval. the second one quantity of the memoir will deal with the general public lifetime of the collage and the political context that conditioned its surroundings.
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