- CALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
- YEARS OF STUDENT UNREST, UCSB
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA'S EXTENDED UNIVERSITY
California Alumni Association, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1964
[In 1959] the California Alumni Association on the Berkeley campus advertised for a director of their alumni scholarship and field programs to work with their alumni clubs and scholarship committees throughout California and in the major cities of the United States and abroad…I…was appointed to this position, effective January 1, 1960…My work with the association acquainted me with an array of university citizens, many of whom were to be meaningful figures in my later career…In 1962 [I served] as the founding director of the California Alumni Foundation, Cal’s first organized and comprehensive initiative to seek funds for the Berkeley campus from private sources and the precursor of the Berkeley Foundation, now administered by the university directly. (Earning My Degree, pp. 21-22)
Early Years and Times of Student Unrest, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1964-1970
The campus remained more or less free of exceptional or even markedly untoward student behavior or protests during my early years there. All that ended with the fall term of 1968 when our comfortable, congenial, and somewhat insulated campus was catapulted into the mainstream of minority aspirations and anti-Vietnam War protests that over the next two to three years would change UCSB almost beyond recognition. The events on campus were in important ways an extension of, or at least linked to, social and political forces operative both within the United States and, concurrently, in Western Europe, Latin America, and East Asia. (Earning My Degree, p. 36; full discussion, pp. 30-66)
[Student] Advocacy of this kind has clearly brought the University more into the larger political arena, and the larger political arena into the University, precisely what UC’s constitutional autonomy was intended to prevent. There is nothing immutable in this world, including constitutional provisions, in force today, but changeable tomorrow. (“Clark Kerr: Triumphs and Turmoil,” p. 18)
University of California, Santa Barbara—Photo courtesy of UC Santa Barbara
Publications and Speeches
Publication
Post Script, “Clark Kerr: Triumphs and Turmoil,” Research & Occasional Paper Series: CSHE.10.12, UC Berkeley: Center for Studies in Higher Education, July 2012. (Also in Clark Kerr's World of Higher Education Reaches the 21st Century: Chapters in a Special History, ed. Sheldon Rothblatt, Higher Education Dynamics, Vol. 38. New York, NY: Springer, 2012)
Speeches
7-5-1970—Formal Remarks made by Dr. David P. Gardner to President Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest (Scranton Commission), Los Angeles, California
9-20-1970—“Campus Patterns for the 70’s”, Association of National Advertisers Advanced Management Seminar, Santa Barbara, California
Related Speech:
- 1970--"Tactics and Strategies of Campus Unrest: A New Pattern for the '70s," Annual Meeting of the Public Affairs Council, Washington, DC
University of California, Office of the President, the Extended University, 1971-1973
One of the initiatives the [President Charles J.] Hitch pushed and supported was the development of what is today called “distance learning,” and what in the University of California was then called the “extended university.”...The idea of an extended university, to facilitate and expand enrollment in degree programs for adult, part-time students studying away from campus and at times more convenient to them, had been considered at an all-university faculty conference on the Davis campus in spring 1970…This was not a California movement, nor a regional one, but a national effort being made by colleges and universities elsewhere and encouraged by foundations and national commissions……I was appointed as university dean of extension and vice president for the extended university and public service in fall 1970…(Earning My Degree, p. 67-68; see also p. 400)
Publications and Speeches
Publications
"Recurrent Education as an Alternative Educational Strategy," typescript for Festschrift honoring T. R. McConnell, Professor of Higher Education Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley (Winter 1973), 109-20
"What Will the Future Bring," in Students and Their Institutions, eds., J. W. Peltason and Marcy V. Massengale (Washington, D.C.: American Council on Education, 1978), 100-106.
Speeches
1974, “A Strategy for Change in Higher Education: The Extended University of the University of California,” with Joseph Zelan. Conference on Future Structures of Postsecondary Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, France
Related Publication:
“Alternatives in Higher Education—Who Wants What?” Higher Education, 4, #3 (1975), 317-33. Co-author: Joseph Zelan.
Related Speeches
- 3-1972-'Telecommunications in a Changing Educational World," Annual Meeting of Western Educational Society for Telecommunications, San Francisco, California, March 1972
- 4-1972--“The Extended University—Dream or Reality,” American Association of College Registrars and Admission Officers, Cleveland, Ohio
3-23-1973—“New Directions,” Statement to the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education of the California Legislature, Sacramento, California