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The Gold and the Blue, Volume One - A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967, Academic Triumphs (Hardcover)
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The Gold and the Blue, Volume One - A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967, Academic Triumphs (Hardcover)
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One of the last century's most influential figures in higher
education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader,
and fighter for the University of California. Chancellor of the
Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university
from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university through its golden
years--a time of both great advancement and great conflict. This
absorbing memoir is an intriguing insider's account of how the
University of California rose to the peak of scientific and
scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's unique leadership, the
university evolved into the institution it is today.
In this first of two volumes, Kerr describes the private life of
the university from his first visit to Berkeley as a graduate
student at Stanford in 1932 to his dismissal under Governor Ronald
Reagan in 1967. Early in his tenure as a professor, the Loyalty
Oath issue erupted, and the university, particularly the Berkeley
campus, underwent its most difficult upheaval until the onset of
the Free Speech Movement in 1964. Kerr discusses many pivotal
developments, including the impact of the GI Bill and the evolution
of the much-emulated 1960 California Master Plan for Higher
Education. He also discusses the movement for universal access to
education and describes the establishment and growth of each of the
nine campuses and the forces and visions that shaped their
distinctive identities.
Kerr's perspective of more than fifty years puts him in a unique
position to assess which of the academic, structural, and student
life innovations of the 1950s and 1960s have proven successful and
to consider what lessons about higher education we might learn from
that period. The second volume of the memoir will treat the public
life of the university and the political context that conditioned
its environment.
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