Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways. While some students were majoring in winemaking or arts and crafts, others were pursuing advanced degrees in psychotherapy or plasma physics. During Kerr's reign, the University of California grew from two to eight main campuses, with 87,000 enrolled students. The multiversity proved all but unmanageable, though for years Kerr succeeded in mediating the divergent demands of students, faculty and California's conservative Regents. But as California schools were...