Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relatively calm 1½-day public discussion of the budget, at which Reagan once again expressed his willingness to modify both the size of his cuts and the tuition fee. With business apparently completed, Theodore Meyer, a San Francisco lawyer and chairman of the regents,* told Kerr that the board wished to consult in private...
From previous conversations with Kerr, several of the regents had picked up the impression that he was weary of criticism and wanted his status clarified (he had not, however, sought a formal vote of confidence). Reagan's newly appointed Regent Allan Grant first suggested the firing, which was formally moved by Laurence J. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and one of the ten regents appointed by former Governor Pat Brown. When the vote was taken, anti-Kerr ballots included those of Reagan, Oilman Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Norman Chandler and Retailer Edward Carter, who had been chairman during the time...
Afterward, Reagan said that "the regents have taken a very responsible action," and Chairman Meyer defended the dismissal as being necessary in order to end "the state of uncertainty" at the university. Speaker Unruh, who the day before had implicitly rejected Kerr's admissions freeze, declared that it set "a very dangerous precedent" to fire a president when an incoming Governor takes over. University officials, however, feared that the blunt manner of his dis missal would have an adverse effect on faculty recruiting. At some campuses, student organizations that less than a year ago were ready to demonstrate...
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...