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During last year's gubernatorial campaign in California, for example, Richard Nixon frequently pledged that, if elected, he would prohibit the appearance of any "subversive speaker" on state campuses. Kerr's acid reaction was to comment that "we will certainly consider Mr. Nixon's requests...but we will do exactly as we please...
Whether compromising or resisting, Kerr remains slightly surprised at the pleasure he gets out of his current job. "I never intended to become a university administrator. But after I gave a strong speech against the Regents in the 1951 Oath Fight, I suddenly found myself appointed Chancellor at Berkeley. I still consider myself at least partially a faculty...
...Kerr spent, in fact, 13 years on the faculties of various West Coast universities before his appointment as Chancellor. In his years at Berkeley, he combined arbitration with teaching and research at the well-known Institute of Industrial Relations...
...Kerr's experience in labor arbitration has left him convinced that a "blueprint" of educational policy is not the proper approach to directing a university. Instead, Kerr feels, the administrator must follow "a compromise of ideas...
California's Master Plan for State Education, which was approved by the Legislature in 1960, bears the stamp of Kerr's knack for mediation. Faced with the task of uniting California's vast network of universities, state and junior colleges, Kerr saw "that there would have to be an agreement sometime," and forged what has since been hailed as California's most alluring asset...