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	Clark Kerr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952–1958) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958–1967).
		Kerr was criticized both by students for not agreeing to their demands and by conservative UC Regent Edwin Pauley and others for responding too leniently to the student unrest.
		Kerr's perceived leniency was key in Ronald Reagan's election as Governor of California in 1966 and in Kerr's dismissal as president by the university’s Board of Regents in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clark_Kerr (904 words)

	Clark Kerr
		Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 - December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-58) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958-67).
		Kerr was criticized both by students for not agreeing to their demands and by regents and others for responding too leniently to the student unrest.
		Following his firing, Kerr served on the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education until 1973 and was chairman of the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education from 1974 - 79.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Clark_Kerr.html (462 words)

	Clark Kerr '32
		Born in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, Clark was raised by parents who deeply respected teaching and learning and instilled in their son at an early age the value of independent thought.
		Clark entered the field of labor economics and taught at Antioch College in Ohio, Stanford, and the University of Washington.
		Clark then served as president of the University of California from 1958 to 1967, during which time enrollment soared, new campuses were built, and a greater sense of community was fostered.
	www.swarthmore.edu /news/text/kerr.html (879 words)

	Clark Kerr Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Clark Kerr (born 1911) was an economist and labor/management expert who served as president of the multi-campus University of California from 1952 to 1967, a period of rapid growth and expansion.
		Clark Kerr was born May 17, 1911, in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, to Samuel William Kerr and Carolina Clark Kerr.
		Clark Kerr's accomplishments as president lay primarily in the evolution of the University of California into a "multiversity," a term he coined.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/clark-kerr (1092 words)

	Guardian \| Clark Kerr
		Kerr demurred, and was denounced as a sympathiser.
		Kerr was born in Pennsylvania, the son of an apple farmer and a milliner, who imbued their son with a deep respect for education.
		Kerr returned to Berkeley as an academic in 1945, as many ex-service personnel were entering higher education thanks to the GI bill of rights.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4814157-110878,00.html (881 words)

	UCSD Guardian Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kerr, who served as UC Berkeley's first chancellor and later as the 12th president of the UC system from 1958 to 1967, died at his El Cerrito, Calif., home due to complications from a fall, according to a UC Berkeley press release.
		Kerr was the main architect and negotiator for the state's Master Plan, which shaped the university's commitment to accessibility as well as its relationship to the state university and community college systems.
		Kerr distinguished himself during his early days working at UC Berkeley by defending Berkeley faculty who would not sign a loyalty oath denouncing communist values, an action for which these dissenting faculty members were threatened to be fired.
	www.ucsdguardian.org /cgi-bin/news?art=2003_12_04_02 (728 words)

	Former UC President Clark Kerr dies (12-2-03): Tributes & Photos
		Kerr served as UC Berkeley chancellor from 1952 to 1958, when he was elevated to president of the University of California system.
		Kerr was appointed to head the influential Carnegie Commission on Higher Education from 1967-73 and its successor, the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, until 1979.
		Kerr is survived by his wife, Catherine; two sons, Clark E. Kerr of Alamo, Calif., and Alexander "Sandy" Kerr of Australia; daughter, Caroline Gage of Orinda, Calif.; and William "Bill" Kerr, a half brother living in Pennsylvania.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2003/12/02_kerr.shtml (2179 words)

	International Higher Education # 35
		Clark Kerr, who died on December 1, 2003, was one of those rare American higher education leaders who was an internationalist out of conviction at a time when few in the American university had much sense of the rest of the world.
		Kerr, who is best known for his leadership of the University of California during the period when it transformed itself into a mass higher education system that maintained high standards of quality.
		Kerr, with the advice of James Perkins (one of the commissioners) and others, sponsored thoughtful analyses by prominent foreign observers with the aim of obtaining the insights of outside observers on the strengths and weakness of American higher education.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/soe/cihe/newsletter/News35/text014.htm (357 words)

	Robert D. Clark
		Robert Donald Clark was president of the University of Oregon from 1969 to 1975.
		Clark Kerr thought that the University of Oregon had done better than the University of California in making these years into a chance for growth.
		Clark was a popular president at both San Jose and the University of Oregon, known for his dedication to the rights of students and to curricular innovation.
	robertdclark.uoregon.edu (508 words)

	Blog of Death: Clark Kerr
		Clark Kerr, the former president of the University of California system of higher education, died on Dec. 1 from complications of a fall.
		Kerr's decision to temporarily freeze admissions led to his dismissal.
		Kerr was offered jobs at prestigious institutions like Harvard and Stanford, but he opted to chair the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and run the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000559.html (540 words)

	The Chronicle: 12/12/2003: Clark Kerr, 'One of the Giants,' Dies
		Kerr was part of a generation of university presidents who used their prominent positions to influence policy debates not only on higher education but on other issues as well.
		Kerr was a lifelong peace advocate who in 1968 went to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago as part of a group that was unsuccessful in its attempts to insert an anti-Vietnam War plank into the party's platform.
		Kerr, whose research with the commission focused largely on federal policy issues, was able to persuade prominent scholars to write for him and turn their work into practical reports that carried influence with state and federal lawmakers.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i16/16a00101.htm (2354 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- 'Grand old man' of California education Clark Kerr dies
		BERKELEY – Clark Kerr, a University of California president who oversaw the system's massive expansion to accommodate the baby boomers but later was fired by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan for being too soft on student protesters, has died.
		Kerr turned his attention to the practical, overseeing the building of 12 high-rise dormitories and setting in motion a number of other campus expansions.
		Kerr is survived by his wife of 69 years, Catherine, and their three children, Clark Edgar, Alexander William and Caroline Mary.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/education/20031201-1809-ca-obit-kerr.html (1018 words)

	02.25.2004 - Clark Kerr remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kerr, the chief architect of that plan, lived to see it threatened by the straitened condition in which UC currently finds itself.
		Calling Kerr “the father of the modern University of California,” Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl said the Master Plan was one of his two greatest achievements, along with expanding UC to a nine-campus system.
		Kerr’s family was represented at the podium by his granddaughter, Amber Kerr (a current graduate student in the energy and resources group at Berkeley), and his son, Clark E. Kerr.
	www.berkeley.edu /news/berkeleyan/2004/02/25_kerrm.shtml (1049 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Clark Kerr Dies; Headed Calif. University System
		Clark Kerr, 92, who as president of the University of California system revolutionized the structure of higher education and advocated freedom of ideas but became a political casualty of the campus protest movements of the 1960s, died Dec. 1 at his home in El Cerrito, Calif., of complications of a fall.
		Kerr was reared on an apple farm, did social work as a Quaker, resolved intense labor negotiations as a professional mediator and became one of the great wry wits of higher education.
		Kerr told The Washington Post in 1982 that he still thought he had followed the right course: "First, as a Quaker, I felt that force was the last resort.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29960-2003Dec2?language=printer (888 words)

	D. Allan Kerr: Gen. Clark a rising star for Democrats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When outlining his biography for audiences Clark discusses his graduation from West Point, but doesn’t mention he graduated first in his class; describes briefly how he was wounded in the jungles of Vietnam, but doesn’t bring up how he handled himself with such courage and grace he was awarded the Silver Star.
		Clark cited his many years of leadership experience, both on the battlefield and during peace.
		And when Clark was done, they rose to their feet and slapped their hands together.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/01102004/col_kerr/69611.htm (992 words)

	President emeritus Clark Kerr to visit/Dateline/11/16/01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kerr, now 90, served as president between 1958 and 1967 –; one of the most dynamic periods in UC history.
		Kerr also played an important role in the writing of the Master Plan for Higher Education in California and led the reorganization of the UC system under the plan.
		Kerr came to UC Berkeley in 1945 as a professor of industrial relations and later served as chancellor of the campus.
	www.news.ucdavis.edu /dateline/111601/DL_Kerr.html (210 words)

	Clark Kerr 1911-2003 / UC's great president, education pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Clark Kerr, one of the nation's foremost educators, who guided the University of California to the pinnacle of prestige before he was unceremoniously sacked as its president in 1967, died in his sleep Monday afternoon at his El Cerrito home of complications from a fall.
		Kerr defended the rights of professors fired in the infamous loyalty oath controversy of the early 1950s, became an advocate of academic freedom and fought against professionalism in university football.
		Kerr had held the highest level security clearance granted by the government for decades because the university oversaw the nation's nuclear weapons program, and he was repeatedly subject to routine background investigations by the FBI.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/02/MNG833E5DM1.DTL (1451 words)

	Clark Kerr receives SCUP's Founders (Casey) Award in 2001
		Clark Kerr, a seminal planner for American higher education, died on December 1, 2003.
		Clark Kerr was unable to attend the award ceremony in 2001 because he was injured at the time.
		Kerr was one of the most widely quoted educators of the 20th century and was singularly responsible for devising the Master Plan for Higher Education in California in the 1960s, which became the model for multi-campus systems all over the country.
	www.scup.org /about/awards/2001/kerr.html (428 words)

	The Chronicle of Higher Education: Colloquy
		Clark Kerr was a "giant" in the architecture of higher education in the U.S. and particularly in California.
		Kerr a critical figure in higher education history was that he was a particularly able person who had a key role in a critical moment.
		Kerr's talents and I do not mean to diminish them in the slightest by saying that there are other individuals who are comparably talented.
	chronicle.com /colloquy/2003/kerr (2276 words)

	Kerr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kerr is a surname, traditionally pronounced either 'care' or 'carr', and may refer to many people.
		Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
		Alief Kerr High School is a public magnet school in Houston, TX
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kerr (270 words)

	Free Speech Movement Activist Finds Tarnish On Clark Kerr's Legacy by Michael Rossman
		But though Kerr later privately claimed he had not said this, the damage was well done, and he never bothered to retract his statement before the Public in whose name eight hundred of us eventually were arrested and many sent to jail.
		Clark Kerr never understood that the key reason we white kids involved ourselves in the civil rights movement was not simply compassion, but our desire for learning how to be citizens, for learning democracy by exercising it.
		Clark Kerr's response to our awakening in the FSM was an earnest of his response to the entire predicament of the university during a deep phase of historical transformation.
	www.fsm-a.org /stacks/rossman-kerr.html (1452 words)

	University of California Office of the President
		"Clark Kerr is the nation's most distinguished statesman of higher education, renowned internationally not only as a scholar and academic leader, but as an insightful researcher and writer on the role of higher education in society," Atkinson said.
		Kerr came to UC Berkeley in 1945 as an associate professor of industrial relations and was chancellor at Berkeley from 1952 until 1958.
		The Kerr Lecture recipients will present lectures at one or more UC campuses and will be expected to submit manuscripts related to their lectures suitable for publication.
	www.ucop.edu /news/archives/2001/may4art2.htm (272 words)

	Boston.com / News / Education / Higher education / Clark Kerr, 92; his ideas remade model of universities
		LOS ANGELES -- Clark Kerr, the elder statesman of higher education whose blueprint for ensuring access to college for all Californians became a model for the nation, died yesterday.
		Kerr died in his sleep after complications from a fall, according to the University of California at Berkeley.
		Born in Stony Creek, Pa., Dr. Kerr was the son of Samuel and Caroline Kerr, both of whom had a reverence for learning and education.
	www.boston.com /news/education/higher/articles/2003/12/02/clark_kerr_92_his_ideas_remade_model_of_universities (731 words)

	President emeritus Clark Kerr examines UC's challenges/Dateline UC Davis/11/30/01
		President Emeritus Clark Kerr talks about the "shockwaves" UC has and will be facing and the importance of a liberal arts education during his Nov. 20 visit to UC Davis.
		Shockwave II is starting, Kerr said, and it presents three main challenges: Tidal Wave II, the new electronic technology and its "fundamental impacts on how classes are taught," and "the new biology" – heralded by the unraveling of the DNA code.
		Kerr also fielded questions from the audience, touching on topics including admissions testing and ways to insure that the university is providing the education scholars of tomorrow will require.
	www-dateline.ucdavis.edu /113001/DL_clarkkerr.html (748 words)

	Clark Kerr - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Kerr earned an A.B. from Swarthmore_College in 1932, an M.A. from Stanford_University in 1933, and a Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1939.
		His perceived leniency was key in Ronald_Reagan's election as Governor_of_California in 1966 and in Kerr's dismissal as president in 1967.
		President Lyndon_Johnson had picked Kerr to become secretary of Health, Education and Welfare but withdrew the nomination after the FBI background check on Kerr included damaging information the agency knew to be false.
	www.erdmond.com /Clark_Kerr.html (435 words)

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