Industrialism and industrial man,: The problems of labour and management in economic growth; with a postscript (Pelican sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kerr, Clark

Social Sciences

Penguin Books in association with Heinemann Educational Books

Dean of the UC Berkeley Schools of Business Administration, 1943-1961: Leader in Campus Administration, Public Service, and Marketing Studies : and ... : Oral History Transcript / 199; Volume 02

Nathan, Harriet

Grether, Ewald Theophilus

History

Franklin Classics Trade Press

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. He also discusses the movement for universal access to education and describes the establishment and growth of each of the nine campuses and the forces and visions that shaped their distinctive identities. Kerr's perspective of more than fifty years puts him in a unique position to assess which of the academic, structural, and student life innovations of the 1950s and 1960s have proven successful and to consider what lessons about higher education we might learn from that period. The second volume of the memoir will treat the public life of the university and the political context that conditioned its environment.

The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949 - 1967: Volume 1, Academic Triumphs

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

University of California Press

The Los Angeles Times called the first volume of The Gold and the Blue "a major contribution to our understanding of American research universities." This second of two volumes continues the story of one of the last century's most influential figures in higher education. A leading visionary, architect, leader, and fighter for the University of California, Clark Kerr was chancellor of the Berkeley campus from 1952 to 1958 and president of the university from 1958 to 1967. He saw the university through its golden years―a time of both great advancement and great conflict. 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, it evolved into the institution it is today. In Volume II: Political Turmoil, Kerr turns to the external and political environment of the 1950s and 1960s, contrasting the meteoric rise of the University of California to the highest pinnacle of academic achievement with its troubled political context. He describes his attempts to steer a middle course between attacks from the political Right and Left and discusses the continuing attacks on the university, and on him personally, by the state Un-American Activities Committee. He provides a unique point of view of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the fall of 1964. He also details the events of January 1967, when he was dismissed as president of the university by the Board of Regents.

The Gold and the Blue, Volume Two: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949–1967, Political Turmoil

Marshall, Marx and Modern Times: The Multi-Dimensional Society

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

America's university president extraordinaire adds a new chapter and preface to The Uses of the University, probably the most important book on the modern university ever written. This summa on higher education brings the research university into the new century. 
The multiversity that Clark Kerr so presciently discovered now finds itself in an age of apprehension with few certainties. Leaders of institutions of higher learning can be either hedgehogs or foxes in the new age. Kerr gives five general points of advice on what kinds of attitudes universities should adopt. He then gives a blueprint for action for foxes, suggesting that a few hedgehogs need to be around to protect university autonomy and the public weal.

The Uses of the University: Fifth Edition (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen)

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Harvard University Press

The Future of Industrial Societies: Convergence or Continuing Diversity?

Sociology

Twenty-three original essays by leading labor scholars, including George Schultz, John Kenneth Galbraith, Jack Barbash, Robert Solow, others. Edited by Clark Kerr. Surveys the course of labor economics over more than two centuries since Adam Smith.

Labor Economic and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions (WERTHEIM PUBLICATIONS IN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS)

Staudohar, Paul D.

Harvard University Wertheim Committee

The Uses of the University With a "Postscript -1972" (The Godkin Lectures on the Essentials of Free Government and the Duties of the Citizen, Harvard University)

The Uses of the University: Third Edition with a new Preface and Postscript

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