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Volume two of Clark Kerr's memoirs of his presidency of the University of California. This volume covers the tumultuous 1960s and the Free Speech Movement on campus.
List of contents
List of Figure and Tables
Foreword
Preface
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. Politicizing the Ivory Tower
PART II. IMPACTS OF MCCARTHYISM
2. The Catastrophic Loyalty Oath Controversy
3. "Un-American" Activities
PART III. THE EMERGENCE OF YOUTH UPRISINGS
4. Youth Uprisings around the World
5. The Development of Student Political Movements in the United States
PART IV. STUDENT CONFLICT ACCELERATES AT BERKELEY
6. The Fatal Attractions of the Berkeley Campus
7. The Sproul Directives
8. The Issue of Political Advocacy on Campus
9. Things Start to Fall Apart
PART V. BERKELEY, FALL 1964—THE FSM UPRISING
10. The Lighted Match
11. The Conflagration
12. The Center Holds and Puts Out the Flames
PART VI. RECOVERY
13. The Center Starts to Build Back
14. The Center Coalesces
PART VII. BACKLASH
15. Reagan and the Regents
16. The Last Day—Losing Big or Winning Big?
Addendum: Transcript of Clark Kerr’s Remarks at the January 20, 1967,
News Conference
Appendix 1. Selections from FBI Files
Appendix 2. List of Documenrary 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 (1963; 5th edition 2001), Higher Education Cannot Escape History (1994), Troubled Times for Higher Education, 1960-1980 (1994), and The Great Transformation in Higher Education (1991).
Summary
A memoir that offers an insider's account of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature. It focuses on the external and political environment of the 1950s and 1960s, contrasting the meteoric rise of the university to the highest pinnacle of academic achievement with its troubled political context.
