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Clark Kerr, the chancellor who led the university through the Free Speech Movement and helped develop the Master Plan for Education, passed away at the age of 92. here is anyone to whom students owe a tremendous amount of gratitude, it is Clark Kerr. His revolutionary views made him without question, a legend in higher education, said Chancellor Robert Berdahl. Kerr led the University through the Free Speech Movement and helped build the academic reputation of UC Berkeley to what it is today. Kerr was raised on an apple farm in Penn- sylvania by parents who had a deep respect for learning. His mother Caroline put off marriage until she had saved enough money for all of her future children to attend college. Kerr ' s father. Samuel, was the first member of his family to go to college. Kerr attended Swarthmore College, where he was student body president and captain of the debate team. After graduating from Swarth- more in 1932. he traveled around California educating people on the necessity to join the League of Nations. Kerr grew enamored with the West and put off attending Columbia Law School, obtaining a master ' s degree in eco- nomics from Stanford instead. Deciding not to return east for education, he earned his doctor- ate in economics from Cal. His love for Berkeley was evident later, when franklin D. Murphy, UCLA ' s chancellor from 1960-1968. described Kerr as basically being a Berkeley guy. He was going to see that Berkeley was No. 1. Kerr taught labor economics at other uni- versities but returned to UC Berkeley in 1945 as head of the institute of industrial Relations. Kerr began to make a name for himself as an activist through his support of those members of the faculty who refused to sign an oath of loyalty during the Cold War. When the position of chancellor was created at Cal, the faculty suggested Kerr. In Kerr ' s six years as chancellor, eight new residence halls and the student union build- ing were constructed, he brought many of the rising stars In academla to Cal and was a leader In organizing the Pacific Athletic Conference, which has now expanded to ten teams. Dur- ing his tenure, Cal became the third-ranked university in the nation, behind Harvard and Yale. After Robert Sproul resigned in 1958. Ke ' became UC President, a position that he helo for eight-and-a-half years. The California legislature began creating new state colleges in the late 1950s without any plan for growth. He organized committees which formulated what became the Master Plan for Higher Education, which had a three tiered educational system, consisting of the University of California, state colleges, and community colleges, all of which would be free to California residents. Kerr envisioned a mul- tiversity which was renowned for both teach Ing and research, an Institution that affected the lives of all citizens and was distanced from the secluded community of scholars, in a 1967 speech. Kerr said. The best investment that any society makes is in the education of the young people, and this shouldn ' t basically be looked upon myopically as a ' cost; ' it should be looked upon as the best Investment that any society can make. Once the Free Speech movement started In 1964, Kerr ' s position as UC President was precarious. Many UC Regents wanted to be tough on the protesters, and some even called for expulsion. Kerr, however, decided to let the
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