Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the possibility of en masse resignations exists. Franklin Murphy, chancellor of the Los Angeles campus of the University and a likely successor to Kerr, has bitterly declared that he does not intend to "preside at the liquidation or substantial erosion of the quality which fifty years of effort have built...
Reagan was hung in effigy on several campuses, but the reaction of university administrators was even more violent and tantamount, his aides say, to "insubordination." Clark Kerr, the president of the nine-campus university system, whom Reagan would like to dump, said that if funds are cut, the quality of education will not be watered down; he would simply ask the Regents to restrict enrollment. Limiting the number of students eligible to attend the university, which is now open to any high school graduate in the top 12.5 per cent of his class, would be a shattering blow to Californians...
...Kerr, probably sensing Reagan's vulnerability on this point, took advantage of public hostility to the governor by announcing last week that admissions to the university system would be halted temporarily, "until the financial picture is clarified." The chancellor of the eighteen state colleges had done the same thing the week before...
...suggested jettisoning a principle they have always taken for granted: the availability of free college education for their children. But administrators both in the universities and the state colleges are pointing out possible harms that probably never occur to the average Californian. The budget cut, they say, echoing Kerr, would preclude admitting any more students, although 10,000 more prospective students apply to the university each year; it might possibly dilute the quality of training now provided at the smaller campuses; it would ruin the university's competitive position in the constant drive to recruit top faculty members...
...Chancellor, recognizing this division among students, has cagily agreed to talk only with the more moderate faction. Both he and Clark Kerr, the president of the entire University of California, have reassured the Regents that students and faculty, working together, can "purge" the non-student element from the university...