Clark Kerr Lectures

The Clark Kerr Lectures On the Role of Higher Education in Society

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The lecture series was established in 2001 under the auspices of the Center for Studies in Higher Education on the Berkeley campus. Initial funding for the lectures was provided by the University of California’s Office of the President, and subsequently major complementary funding has been received from the Carnegie Corporation. The Center for Studies in Higher Education has established an agreement with the University of California Press for publication of the second and future lectures.

The 2007 Clark Kerr lecturer will be Donald Kennedy, president emeritus Stanford University and editor of Science. The three lectures are scheduled for:

• October 31, 3 pm, UC Berkeley Art Museum
• November 7, 4 pm, Lipman Room, Barrows Hall
• November 28, UC Irvine

The series honors Clark Kerr, who served as president of the university between 1958 and 1967. Lectures are given at one or more of the university's ten campuses. Kerr headed the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and then the Carnegie Council on Policy Studies in Higher Education from 1967 until 1979. He came to UC Berkeley in 1945 as an associate professor of industrial relations and was chancellor at Berkeley from 1952 until 1958.

Recipients of the honor are selected once every two years. The first Kerr lecturer was Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University and a former president of the University of Michigan. Princeton University Press will soon publish an expanded version of his original Kerr lectures.