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...More Giants. Kerr's own colossus of seven campuses and 58,600 students (soon to double) reflects the pattern. Last year the University of California had operating costs of almost $500 million, with almost another $100 million for construction. It employed more than 40,000 people, delivered 4,000 babies in its hospitals, offered 10,000 courses, taught 200,000 extension students, and ran aid and research projects in more than 50 countries. No one man can really run such an establishment, says Kerr. The day of the "giant" university president is past. Now comes the "mediator" trying...
...money-the impact of Government science research that began flooding the universities in World War II. Today the U.S. pays for about 75% of all university research; since it demands the best, more than half the money goes to only six topflight universities, notably California. The result is what Kerr calls the "federal grant" university, responding more to Government needs than to its own desires. Compared with some of his fellow presidents, Kerr is unworried about this relationship, calling it "enormously productive in enlarging the pool of scientific ideas and skills...
...money and faster promotions leaving humanists behind and bitter. The regular faculty is being jostled by the "un-faculty"-nontenure researchers who do not belong to the faculty senate, but whose projects profoundly affect university planning and financing. "Excessive amounts of expensive equipment have at times been purchased," says Kerr. "There have been some scandals. There will be more...
...Kerr is more concerned about the congressional grumbles that a few multiversities are too privileged, too attractive to industries that have sprung up around them to feed off their intellectual riches...
...name of "balance," the new idea is to spread the research wealth to many campuses. Kerr fears academic pork barreling that might water down all research; he would create a new National Foundation for Higher Education to police federal grants and give more emphasis to such neglected areas as the creative arts...