Word: kerrs
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...planning in order to avoid conflicts about where campuses should be built and how the available money should be shared. Forty states now have coordinating boards that theoretically control all forms of higher education. The tidiest system of them all is still that of California, where former President Clark Kerr's master plan is continually reviewed by a coordinating council that includes representatives of the state's private colleges. The Kerr plan assigns clear functions to three levels of state institutions: the university (which takes the upper 12½% of high school graduates), the state colleges (the upper...
21st Century Preview. New York has chosen a different way. While California educators prefer the masterly simplicity of their own plan, Clark Kerr considers New York's program "the most important single development in higher education today." It is working so well, observes Harvard Sociologist David Riesman, that New York "is well on its way to overtaking California in the quality of its public higher education." Justifiably proud, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller boasts: "If you want to preview the American university of the 21st century, look at what is happening in higher education at S.U.N.Y. today...
...colleges, and they merely pose a threat to the financial support that has made the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill the best public institution in the South. Spreading resources equally throughout a state is no real solution. "Our great institutions are a great national asset," warns Clark Kerr, who is heading a Carnegie-financed study of higher education in the U.S. "You've got to concentrate talent to make it effective, since talents energize each other...
...busy?" is a put-down that ought to be banned from the parental lexicon. "Listen" ought to be tattooed over every parent's heart. Regular "time alone" with parents so that children can unburden themselves is vital. As Educator Clark Kerr advises: "Spend time, not money." There is no better investment in a day when children are often better educated than their parents, or at least schooled in a far different intellectual vocabulary. Unless parents deliberately verse themselves in the new art, books, films, music and mores assailing their kids, they risk being stamped as unspeakable-to-squares...
Despite the fact that none of the students submitted such statements, the Board did not act to reverse their probations. "It now seems unlikely," Kerr said yesterday, "that there will be any changes in the rest of the probations before June--unless a student comes forward and states he was not at the demonstration...