Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...firing of Clark Kerr as president of the University of California was sudden and unexpected. But last week's reaction from Cal's faculty and students was entirely predictable: it was visceral and angry...
...university facing "a crisis from which it may not recover, do grave disservice to the university and to those who must cope with its problems." So far, at least, there was little evidence that Kerr's dismissal would have much, if any, immediate effect on the quality of Cal's teaching. None of the protesting professors had offered to resign. So long as there was no mass exodus, it seemed unlikely that many potential faculty recruits would be dissuaded from heading west to join the nation's most prestigious state university...
...higher education in the U.S., with the option of making it either a part-time or full-time job. As Kerr's interim successor, one of his longtime aides, Senior Vice President Harry Wellman, 66, stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender of university autonomy. Insisting that he will not be "a mere housekeeper," he vowed to "maintain and strengthen the non- political character of the university" while the regents undertake a nationwide search...
...cause of the firing. In his eight years as president and six as Berkeley chancellor, well-meaning Clark Kerr had unquestionably done much for the university. He shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during the student revolt, Kerr-as the students might put it -lost his cool. Thereafter, his indecisiveness managed to alienate, at one time or another, the regents...
...forces. In his 1963 book, The Uses of the University, Kerr wrote that "the first task of the mediator is peace -peace within the student body, the faculty, the trustees; and peace between and among them." No one could deny that Kerr had failed to keep the peace at Cal...