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List of contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword by Neil Smelser
Preface
Part I. Introduction
1. Getting to Know Berkeley
2. A Giant Astride the University: An Appreciation of Robert Gordon Sproul
Part II. The First Chancellor at Berkeley, 1952-58
3. Answering the Big Question: Who Will Take Berkeley's Place in the Academic Big Six?
4. Defining a Chancellor's Sphere of Action
5. "The Best Balanced Distinguished University"
6. Getting Ready for the Tidal Wave
7. Improving Facilities for Student Life at Berkeley
8. A New Physical Development Plan for Berkeley
9. Responding to Some Post-Loyalty Oath Legacies
10. Reprise and Prelude: Three Struggles over the University's Orientation-1870, 1900, and 1950
Part III. The Presidency of the University: Overarching Issues, 1958-67
11. A New Agenda for the Reorientation of the University
12. A Master Plan for Higher Education in California
13. Moving from Unitary to Pluralistic Decision-Making (1957-59)
14. A Second Look at Decentralization (1965) and a Failed Proposal
15. Reconsiderations
Part IV. Nine Campuses
16. Creation of Three Campuses
17. Original Directions and Problems at the New Campuses
18. Mass Transformations and Administered Alterations
19. Innovations and Reactions at Santa Cruz
20. Reconsiderations on Attempts at Academic Change
21. Transformations at Davis and Santa Barbara
22. Transformations at Riverside and San Francisco
23. A Place in the Sun for UCLA
24. Clouds Obscure Berkeley's Sun
Part V. Universitywide Innovations
25. Academic Affairs
26. Student Life
27. Structural Adjustments
Part VI. Outcomes at the End of the Century
28. Pure Gold
Conclusion
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. Documentary Supplements
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
About the author
Clark Kerr (1911-2003) was President of the University of California and a giant in public education. His books include The Uses of the University (1995), Higher Education Cannot Escape History (1994), Troubled Times for Higher Education (1994), and The Great Transformation in Higher Education (1991).
Summary
Clark Kerr was one of the 20th century's most influential figures in American higher education. This is a memoir of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's leadership, it evolved.
