Chancellor, 1980-1990, Vice Chancellor, and professor of law, UC Berkeley, and secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999
By: Ira Michael Heyman ; with an introduction by Sanford H. Kadish. Interviews conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1995-2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Heyman, Therese Thau.; Nathan, Harriet.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2004
Subjects: Heyman, Ira Michael, 1930- -- Interviews.; Heyman, Therese Thau -- Interviews.; University of California, Berkeley -- History -- 20th century.; University of California, Berkeley. Office of the Vice Chancellor.; University of California, Berkeley. Office of the Chancellor.; University of California, Berkeley -- Finance.; University of California, Berkeley -- Administration.; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management & Budget.; Smithsonian Institution -- Management.; College administrators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews.; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.); Apartheid.; College administrators' spouses -- United States -- Interviews.; People's Park (Berkeley, Calif.)
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Childhood in Manhattan, Dartmouth College, A.B., Yale Law School, J.D. 1956; legislative assistant to Senator Irving Ives, 1950-1951; chief law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1958-1959; Marine Corps and Reserve, 1953-1958; marriage to Therese Thau; UC Berkeley: professor of law and of city and regional planning, 1959-, land use planning and environmental law; Vice Chancellor, 1974-1980, and Chancellor, 1980-1990: admissions, affirmative action, apartheid and divestiture, Free Speech Movement, HUAC; student housing, campus ceremonies; NCAA policies; discusses law practice, arbitration, land use and environmental law; city-campus relations, People's Park, faculty committees, undergrad teaching, faculty quality, fiscal stringency, VERIP (voluntary early retirement incentive program); reorganization of biochemistry; private resources, Keeping the Promise fundraising campaign; reflections on weapons-related laboratories; heading Bay Vision 2020; Department of Interior, deputy assistant secretary for policy, 1993-1994; Secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999.

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