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...Best Deal. Given all the uncertainty, California's Ronald Reagan loomed as an alternate beneficiary of any breakdown in the Romney band- wagon. While Reagan remained preoccupied last week with the first major battle of his administration, the abrasive controversy over the firing of U.C. president Clark Kerr (see EDUCATION), former California G.O.P. Chairman Gaylord Parkinson was spreading the word at New Orleans that the Governor was now "holding the door open" for the presidential nomination. In recent weeks, Texas' Republican Senator John Tower and Florida's new G.O.P. Governor Claude Kirk Jr. have made separate pilgrimages...
Lost His Cool. The truth of the matter was that neither politics nor any supposed anti-intellectual hostility on the part of the regents was the 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...
...Kerr had not lived up to his own concept of what the modern multiversity president should be: a mediator between conflicting campus pressures and 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...
...Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California, will head the commission. Riesman said yesterday that he has known Kerr for about ten years. "Kerr is a man whom I share a good deal in trying to understand the operations of large institutions of higher education," he noted...
...Kerr said that the commission will study such questions as what percentage of high school students go to college, how many higher education institutions of all types will be needed in the future, and how the needed schools will be financed...