Childhood: Reading, PA, farm life, family values and education; B.A. social sciences, Swarthmore College, 1932: student body president, Quaker religion; American Friends Service peace caravaner, California, summer 1932; graduate studies, Stanford University [SU]; Ph.D. economics, University of California, Berkeley [UCB]: unemployment research, labor relations interests; teaching positions SU and U niversity of Washington; director Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley: labor union arbitrator, anti-Communist oath; first UCB chancellor, UCB president: California Master Plan for Higher Education, structuring University of California system, mass universal access to education, campus free speech movement, student protests, dismissal over police involvement; board member, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; director and chairman, Carnegie Corporation Commission on Higher Education: "Quality and Equality" 1968 report, federal government programs for financing higher education, Pell grants and student loan programs, research duties' impact on teaching quality; chairman, Carnegie Corporation Council for Policy Studies in Higher Education: high school Advanced Placement courses; member Rockefeller Foundation Board: Health Manpower Act of 1974; chairman, Work in America; reminiscences of colleagues.
Government aid to higher education; Universities and colleges--Finance--United States; Communism--History--20th century.--United States; Quakers; Collective bargaining--College teachers--United States; Educators; Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003; Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; University of California, Berkeley History
Format
oral histories
Genre
Interviews
Date
1998
Physical Description
98 pages
Note (Biographical)
Educator.
Note (Funding)
Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York
Note
Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
Interviewed by: Sharon Zane on February 18, 1998 in Berkeley, California and September 14, 1998 in New York, New York.
Service copy (44 kHz, 16 bit) and rendered version (96 kHz, 24 bit) of sound file derived from a digital preservation master digitized at 96 kHz, 24 bit.
Note (Provenance)
Gift of Clark Kerr
Note (Copyright)
Copyright for session 1 held by The Carnegie Corporation of New York. Copyright for session 2 held by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998.