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...campuses face their "greatest crisis in the 330 years since the founding of Harvard," says Clark Kerr, head of the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. The problem is not radical student protest; it is a radical shortage of money. Though academics have always made a practice of crying poverty, Kerr's commission last week issued a sobering report (the latest in a series of impressive campus analyses), which offered unusually specific evidence that the financial squeeze is getting worse...
...Chaired by Clark Kerr, the 19-member commission includes Industrialists Norton Simon and Ralph M. Besse, Economist Carl Kaysen, Psychologist Kenneth Keniston, plus university presidents like Illinois' David D. Henry and Notre Dame's Theodore M. Hesburgh...
...Clark Kerr, Commission chairman, said that if educational institutions are to prosper the federal and state governments will have to contribute substantially more funds than in the past...
...Clark Kerr, commission chairman, said yesterday that he did not "foresee any of the major institutions in the United States closing their doors," adding that "several of them will have to change profoundly unless solutions are found...
Blue collar workers are more militant today largely because their aspirations have been raised while their real income remains static. "In a sense, businessmen bring labor militance on themselves by advertising and raising prices," says Clark Kerr, former chancellor of the University of California and a top labor expert. "They constantly raise the level of expectations of their own workers." Blue collar workers are also profoundly influenced by what Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, calls "the second life that everyone leads through TV." The worker and his wife constantly see advertised on television the products that...