The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967: Volume 1, Academic Triumphs
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (534 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520223675 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 585 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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In this first of two volumes, Kerr describes the private life of the university from his first visit to Berkeley as a graduate student at Stanford in 1932 to his dismissal under Governor Ronald Reagan in 1967. The second volume of the memoir will treat the public life of the university and the political context that conditioned its environment.. Chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967, Kerr saw the university through its golden years--a time of both great advancement and great conflict. Kerr discusses many pivotal developments, including the impact of the GI Bill and the evolution of the much-emulated 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education. One of the last century's most influential figures in higher education, Clark Kerr was a leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California. Early in his tenure as a professor, the Loyalty Oath issue erupted, and the university, particularly the Berkeley campus, underwent its most difficult upheaval until the onset of the Free Speech Movement in 1964. This absorbing memoir is an intriguing insider's account of how the University of California rose to the peak of scientific and scholarly stature and how, under Kerr's unique leadership, the university evolved into the institution it is today. He also discusses the movement for un
Kerr's memoir should be read with a critical eye and with attention to recent works that better "problematize" the history of UC, such as Maresi Nerad's The Academic Kitchen (SUNY, 2001) and John Aubrey Douglass's The California Idea and American Higher Education (Stanford Univ., 2000). Moreover, his decision to focus so completely in this first volume on the university's "triumphs" forces the reader to endure a parade of praise for an institution whose history is considerably more complex than this "old school" celebration might suggest. . Unfortunately, while Kerr's description of academic politics and educational change will be inherently interesting to many readers, his memoir ranges too often into the personal and does not consistently place his experience at UC within the relevant scholarship in the field of higher education. Scott Walter, Washington State Univ., Pullman Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. For this reason alone, a "personal memo
"Clark Kerr's leadership at UC" according to D. L. Mingori. I was a UC student during Kerr's tenure, and it was interesting to learn what was going on at the upper levels. Kerr did a lot to advance UC's reputation.