The Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society are administered by the University of California through the Center for Studies in Higher Education on the Berkeley campus. They recognize Clark Kerr, the first Chancellor of the Berkeley campus, serving from 1952 until 1958 and then as President of the University from to 1958 to 1967. The Lectures are supported through generous grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the University of California Office of the President, appropriately recognizing Clark Kerr’s close association with the University of California and then the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education, which he headed from 1967 until 1979.

Dr. Hanna Gray will present the series of three Clark Kerr Lectures during the week of November 16-20, 2009. The first two lectures will be held on the Berkeley campus in the Art Museum's Theater on November 16th and 18th, while the third lecture will be held on the Davis campus, Vanderhoef Studio Theatre, and beamed back to Berkeley on November 20th (location at UC Berkeley to be determined).

Lecture I: The Uses of the University Revisited

Monday, November 16, 4- 5:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum Auditorium (lower floor)

The lecture will take up Clark Kerr’s classic work on the “multiversity” and his critique of the state of higher education in his day, with attention also to his view of Robert Maynard Hutchins and to the two different styles of reform and two different ideas of the university put forward by Kerr and Hutchins.

Lecture II: Uses (and Misuses) of the University Today

Wednesday, November 18, 4- 5:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum Auditorium (lower floor)

This lecture will discuss perceptions of higher education today and take up some significant developments and trends that have emerged in the past several decades to frame the situation of universities at present.

Lecture III: Searching for Utopia

Friday, November 20, 4- 5:30 PM
Vanderhoef Studio Theater, UC Davis
or see it real-time webstream in 768 Evans Hall, UC Berkeley

The concluding lecture will look at the interlinked history of ideas of the liberal arts and ideas of the university as background for an assessment of the state, and potential future, of liberal education in our universities.

BIO
Hanna Holborn Gray is one of the most distinguished and accomplished leaders of American Higher Education. She served as President of the University of Chicago from 1978 through 1993, and now holds the titles of President Emeritus and Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Professor of History at that university. Her scholarly interests are in the history of humanism, political and historical thought, and politics in the Renaissance and the Reformation. Following education at Bryn Mawr, Harvard and Oxford, as a Fulbright Scholar, her early academic career was at Harvard, the University of Chicago and Northwestern. She was Provost of Yale University from 1974 to 1978, serving also as President of Yale for 1977-78. As one measure of her distinction, she holds honorary degrees from over sixty colleges and universities, including Oxford, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Princeton, Duke, Harvard, the Universities of Michigan and Toronto, and the University of Chicago.

Sponsored by Carnegie Corporation of New York, UC Office of the President, and Center for Studies in Higher Education.

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Abstract
In many higher education courses, students are judged with the help of certain objective but also subjective criteria by the teachers. Yet, this may be not sufficient for equal appraisal of idiosyncratic ways of acquiring knowledge. After an analysis of thinking styles and tacit knowing of scientists the presentation will concentrate upon the possible effects the following issues might have on classroom teaching:

• subjectivity
• gender
• ways of knowing
• appraisal

Methods for the reflection of one’s own teaching behaviors are introduced and discussed.

BIO
Robert Guecker, PhD, is Senior Researcher at Center for Technology-Based Training, Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany.

He specializes in the nature of expertise and tacit knowing, his dissertation is dealing with the knowledge that Instructional Designers are gathering throughout their working experience (Wie E-Learning entsteht. Untersuchung zum Wissen und Können im neuen Berufsfeld Medienautor/in, Muenchen 2007). He has a wide research and working experience in the field of media education. During winter 2007 – 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar at CSHE, UC Berkeley.