Clark Kerr
University of California, Berkeley
Term	1958 – 1967
Born	17 May 1911(1911-05-17) Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, USA
Died	1 December 2003 (aged 92) El Cerrito, California, USA
Alma mater	Swarthmore College Stanford University University of California, Berkeley
Spouse	Catherine Kerr
Children	3

Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley 1952 to 1958, and twelfth president of the University of California. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Stony Creek is a Tributary of the Susquehanna River in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Events 1521 - Edward Stafford 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for Treason. Year 1911 ( MCMXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. A Chancellor is the head of a University. Other titles are sometimes used such as President or Rector. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California.

Contents 1 Academic background 2 UC Berkeley Chancellor 3 University of California President 3.1 1960s student protests 3.2 Target of the United States Government 4 Life after Berkeley 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links

Academic background

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. Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1500 students Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. In 1945, he became an associate professor of industrial relations and was the founding director of the Institute of Industrial Relations.

UC Berkeley Chancellor

During the McCarthy era in 1949, the Regents of the University of California adopted an anti-communist loyalty oath to be signed by all University of California employees. McCarthyism is a term describing the intense anti-communist suspicion in the United States in a period that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. Anti-communism refers to opposition to Communism. Historically the word "communism" has been used to refer to several types of communal social organization and Kerr signed the oath, but fought against the firing of those who refused to sign. Kerr gained respect from his stance and was named UC Berkeley's first chancellor when that position was created in 1952. As chancellor, Kerr oversaw the construction of 12 high-rise dormitories and was the Regents' choice for president when the position opened in 1958.

University of California President

Kerr's term as UC president saw the opening of campuses in San Diego, Irvine, and Santa Cruz to accommodate the influx of baby boomers. The University of California San Diego (popularly known as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public Research university in San Diego, California The University of California Irvine is a public Coeducational Research university situated in Irvine, California. A baby boom is any period of greatly increased birth rate during a certain period and usually within certain geographical bounds and when the birth rate exceeds 2% of the population Faced with a dramatic increase of students entering college, Kerr helped establish the now much-copied California system of having the handful of University of California campuses act as 'top tier' research institutions, the more numerous California State University campuses handle the bulk of undergraduate students and the very numerous California Community College campuses provide vocational and transfer-oriented college programs to the masses. The California Master Plan for Higher Education of 1960 was developed by Clark Kerr during the administration of Governor Pat Brown. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. History Today's California State University system is the direct descendant of the California State Normal School (now San José State University) a The California Community Colleges System (CCCS consists of 110 Community colleges in 72 community college districts in the U

In 1959, Kerr along with Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg helped found the Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory. Glenn Theodore Seaborg ( Glenn Teodor Sjöberg) ( April 19, 1912 &ndash February 25, 1999) won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry The Samuel Silver Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL is an Organized Research Unit of the University of California

1960s student protests

Controversy exploded in 1964 when Berkeley students led the Free Speech Movement in protest of regulations limiting political activities on campus, including protests against the Vietnam war. The Free Speech Movement (FSM was a Student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California Berkeley under Opposition to US involvement in the Vietnam War is significant because domestic protest in the U It culminated in hundreds of arrested students at a sit-in. Kerr’s initial decision was to not expel University of California students that participated in sit-ins off campus. That decision evolved into resistance to expel students who later would protest on campus in a series of escalating events on the Berkeley campus in late 1964. 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. Edwin Wendell Pauley Sr ( January 7, 1903 — July 28, 1981) was an American oilman and political appointee ^[1]

Target of the United States Government

In 2002, the FBI released documents that had Kerr blacklisted as part of a campaign to suppress people at UC deemed subversive. ^[2] This information had been classified by the FBI and was only released after a fifteen-year legal battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court. 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.

Edwin Pauley approached the CIA Director John McCone (a Berkeley alum and associate) for assistance. Edwin Wendell Pauley Sr ( January 7, 1903 — July 28, 1981) was an American oilman and political appointee McCone in turn met with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. WikipediaManual of Style (biographies#Postnominal initials ^[3][4] Hoover agreed to supply Pauley with confidential FBI information on "ultra-liberal" regents, faculty members, and students, and to assist in removing Kerr. Pauley received dozens of briefings from the FBI to this end. The FBI assisted Pauley and Ronald Reagan in painting Kerr as a dangerous "liberal. "

Kerr's perceived leniency was key in 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. The Governor of California is the highest executive authority in the state government whose responsibilities include making annual "State of the State" addresses In response, Kerr stated that he left the university just as he entered it: "fired with enthusiasm. "

Kerr’s second memoir, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil details what he refers to as his greatest blunders in dealing with the Free Speech Movement that ultimately led to his firing. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. The Free Speech Movement (FSM was a Student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California Berkeley under

CIA's McCone, at Pauley's request, asks Hoover to target anti-war protests at UC Berkeley.

1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p. 1.

1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p. 2.

1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p. 3.

Life after Berkeley

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 to 1979.

In 1986, the Clark Kerr Campus of UC Berkeley opened, named in honor of Kerr. The University of California Berkeley has various student housing facilities some run by the office of Residential and Student Service Programs and others by off-campus entities A few blocks from the main campus, it includes residences and sports practice facilities. The Spanish-style residential complex houses 700 students and features landscaped gardens and a conference center. It had previously been the California School for the Deaf and Blind, but the University acquired it after a court battle and it was condemned as seismically unsafe. The California School for the Blind is a public educational institution for blind children K-12 located in Fremont California.

Kerr died in his sleep following complications from a fall at age 92.

The Clark Kerr Medal is named in his honor. Clark Kerr Medal or the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education is an Award given to a person who has made an exlempary contribution to the

There are Kerr Halls, named for Clark Kerr, on the campuses of UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz. The University of California Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, or just UCD, is a public coeducational university located in the city of Davis, ^[5], as well as in UC Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley ^[6]

References

Bibliography

• Kerr, Clark, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967
• Kerr, Clark, The Uses of the University
• Burress, Charles. "The Long, Hard Years at Berkley; Second Volume of Clark Kerr’s Memoir Covers Politics and ‘Blunders’” San Francisco Chronicle 9 Feb. 2003, Sunday Review Pg. 1.
• “UC Won’t Expel Sit-in Students” Los Angeles Times 6 May 1964, Pg. 8.
• “The Arrests at Berkley” New York Times 5 Dec. 1964, Pg 30.

External links

• U.C. Berkeley news release
• San Francisco Chronicle, "Reagan, Hoover, and the UC Red Scare," 9 June, 2002.
• AP obituary
• NPR All Things Considered - Educator Clark Kerr Dies at 92
• account of secret files of the FBI on Kerr, and Kerr's ouster.

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