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Chief among these problems, Kerr said, "is the revival of undergraduate teaching in the university." Students are quietly staging a "counter-revolution" to recent faculty emphasis on research, instigated in part by government expenditures after World...
...treat the individual student is a single unique human being in the mass student body, how to establish a broader range of contact between faculty and student" are problems being pressed by an ever-increasing student population. Kerr also asserted that educational policy must receive more attention, and the undergraduate must, in general, receive the attention now being lavished on the graduate student...
...second great problem, Kerr noted, is the task of creating a "more unified intellectual world," and striving toward the spirit manifest in the medieval "community of masters and students." Knowledge, however, continues to be fragmented, and a "sense of the unity of all knowledge is still a very long way off," Kerr said...
...third problem Kerr, as the president of the nation's largest university, is particularly concerned about is college administration. He is a forceful advocate for decentralization of decision-making power and creative innovation, and urged more cooperation between allied, but now separate, segments of the community. He noted particularly in this regard the current "chasm" between the teaching department and the research institute...
...Kerr reiterated a concern voiced last night that overly-aggressive egalitarian impulses might channel federal funds away from the large universities that have been getting most of it. "How may the contributions of the elite be made clear to the egalitarians; how may an aristocracy of intellect justify itself to a democracy of the common man?" he asked...