The Gold and the Blue
Subtitle: A personal memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967
By: Clark Kerr ; with a foreword by Neil J. Smelser.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Subjects: Kerr, Clark, -- 1911-; University of California, Berkeley -- Presidents. -- Biography.; University of California (System) -- History.
Description: In volume one, 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Academic triumphs : a personal memoir of the University of California, 1952-1967; title: v. 2. Political turmoil.