Reminiscences of Clark Kerr : oral history, 1998.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

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 University 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.

Subjects

• Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• Collective bargaining--College teachers--United States.
• Communism--United States--History--20th century.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Government aid to higher education.
• Interviews.
• Kerr, Clark, 1911-2003--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Quakers.
• Universities and colleges--Finance--United States.
• University of California, Berkeley--History--20th century.
• Zane, Sharon, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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