Word: kerr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUSTIN KERR...
...AFTER THE FAIR, by Frank Harvey, with Deborah Kerr. 7:30 at the Shubert Theater in Boston...
Faculty members note that they are introducing their Jewish students to the Arab point of view for the first time. Still the recent war caused tension even among professors. "It was never discussed," says Malcolm Kerr of U.C.L.A. "During the fighting you'd see Jewish faculty seated at lunch with their friends, Arab faculty with theirs. Emotions are just too high. Arguments over this could rip us apart...
Inevitably, Kerr and his colleagues have their critics. Says Donald McDonald, executive editor of The Center Magazine, "The Carnegie Commission study ... is not going to persuade professors or administrators to ask themselves any hard, self-critical questions about what they are doing or the way they are doing it." In reply, Kerr cites a variety of innovations that he believes the commission helped achieve, including increased federal financial aid to needy students, better techniques for educating doctors and nurses, and growth in the state community college movement...
...gravest criticism of the commission is that it has focused upon the structure rather than the content of higher education. Kerr answers that the commission deliberately avoided such controversial areas as teaching and curriculum, and "tried to hold out for things that could be done." Even Alan Pifer, president of the Carnegie Corporation, which paid the commission's bills, has admitted to feeling "somewhat wistful" that the commission did not tackle the thorny problem of undergraduate liberal education. But he stresses that the commission's function was to provoke discussion and thought, not to provide a blueprint. Says...