Special feature: Clark Kerr

Former University of California President Clark Kerr, shown in a
file photo from June 9, 2002, in El Cerrito, Calif. Kerr, who was
the mastermind behind the modern public higher education system,
died Monday at the age of 92.

A Visionary Remembered Author of higher education model,
respected former UC president dies Clark Kerr, the
University of California president for much of the tumultuous 1960s
whose model for higher education redefined the mission and purpose
of universities across the country and throughout the world, has
died. He was 92. Kerr suffered complications following a fall, and
he passed away Monday at his home in El Cerrito. Read More >> Academic
activists fear greater surveillance College students monitored by
the FBI. Government agents leafing through library records.
University professors and officials being questioned ““ and
fired ““ for their political leanings. Such activities were
commonplace when Clark Kerr was fired from his post as president of
the University of California for not cracking down on student
activists during the peak of the Cold War. Read More >> Kerr’s
Master Plan shaped modern UC, CSU systems Former president
was a ‘visionary’, championing higher education for all As
Clark Kerr’s friends and colleagues sift through their memories of
him, many remember his dream of universal access to higher
education. Kerr was a major force behind the Master Plan for Higher
Education, which dramatically increased Californians’ access to
college, and that dream of access may be in jeopardy as California
faces its current fiscal crisis. Read More >>