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{{Infobox University Chancellor
|  name        =  Clark Kerr
|  image       =  Clark Kerr.jpg
|  order       =  
|  university  =  First Chancellor<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br>Twelfth President <br>[[University of California]]
|  term_start  =  1958
|  term_end    =  1967
|  birth_date  =  {{birth date|1911|05|17|df=yes}}
|  birth_place =  [[Stony Creek, Pennsylvania]], [[United States|USA]]
|  death_date  =  {{death date and age|2003|12|01|1911|05|17|df=yes}}
|  death_place =  [[El Cerrito, California]], [[United States|USA]]
|  alma_mater  =  [[Swarthmore College]]<br>[[Stanford University]]<br>[[University of California, Berkeley|U.C. Berkeley]]
|  workplaces  =  [[University of Washington]]<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]]<br>[[University of California]]
|  profession  =  Economist, educator, administrator
|  spouse      =  Catherine Kerr
}}

'''Clark Kerr''' (17 May 17, 1911 – 1 December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first [[Chancellor (education)|chancellor]] of the [[University of California, Berkeley]] and twelfth president of the [[University of California]].

== Biography ==
=== Early years ===
(contracted; show full)reds of arrested students at a sit-in. Kerr’s initial decision was to not expel University of California students that participated in sit-ins off campus. That decision evolved into resistance to expel students who later would protest on campus in a series of escalating events on the Berkeley campus in late 1964. Kerr was criticized both by students for not agreeing to their demands and by conservative UC Regent [[Edwin Pauley]] and others for responding too leniently to the student unrest.<ref>{{cit
ation | e web|url=  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E0DC1E3AF931A35751C1A9659C8B63 | |title=Clark Kerr, Leading Public Educator and Former Head of California's Universities, Dies at 92 | |newspaper=The New York Times | |accessdate=2008-02-10 | |last=Hechinger | |first=Grace  | date=2 December 2003001-12-02}}</ref>

==== Blacklisting ====
In 2002, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] released documents that had Kerr blacklisted as part of a campaign to suppress people at UC deemed subversive.<ref name=campusfiles>{{cite news | |author=Seth Rosenfeld | |title=The Campus Files | |url=http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles | |work=The San Francisco Chronicle | |date=9 June 2002 | 2002-06-09|accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref> This information had been classified by the FBI and was only released after a fifteen-year legal battle that went all the way to the US Supreme Court. President [[Lyndon Johnson]] had picked Kerr to become secretary of Health, Education and Welfare but withdrew the nomination after the FBI background check on Kerr included damaging information the agency knew to be false. 

[[Edwin Pauley]] approached the CIA Director [[John McCone]] (a Berkeley alum and associate) for assistance. McCone in turn met with FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]].<ref name=trouble>{{cite news | |author=Seth Rosenfeld | |title=The Campus Files: Trouble on campus| |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/09/MNCF2.DTL | |work=The San Francisco Chronicle | |date=9 June 2002 2002-06-09| accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref><ref name=campusfiles5>{{cite news | |author=Seth Rosenfeld | |title=The Campus Files: The McCone Meeting  | url=http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/documents/5b.shtml | |work=The San Francisco Chronicle | |date=9 June 2002 2002-06-09| accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref> Hoover agreed to supply Pauley with confidential FBI information on "ultra-liberal" regents, faculty members, and students, and to assist in removing Kerr. Pauley received dozens of briefings from the FBI to this end. The FBI assisted Pauley and [[Ronald Reagan]] in painting Kerr as a dangerous "liberal."

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Following his dismissal, Kerr served on the [[Carnegie Commission on Higher Education]] until 1973 and was chairman of the [[Carnegie Council on Policy Studies]] in Higher Education from 1974 to 1979.

===Pesonal life===
Kerr was married to Catherine Spaulding on Christmas Day, 1934. They had three children; Clark E., Jr., Alexander, and Caroline Gage. He died in his sleep in [[El Cerrito, California]], following complications from a fall.
 
==Legacy and hono
urs==
There are Kerr Halls on the campuses of [[U.C. Davis]], [[U.C. Santa Barbara]], [[niversity of California, Davis|U.C. Davis]], [[University of California, Santa Barbara|U.C. Santa Barbara]], [[University of California, Santa Cruz|U.C. Santa Cruz]], and U.C. Berkeley.<ref>{{cite web | author= | |title=  Clark Kerr Campus | |url=http://www.housing.berkeley.edu/livingatcal/clarkkerr.html | |work=Living at Cal | |publisher=U.C. Berkeley | |date=  2008 | |accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | author= | |title=UCSC - Virtual Tour: Kerr Hall | |url=http://www.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/kerr.asp |  publisher=U.C. Santa Cruz | date= | |accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref>

The Berkeley facility is located a few blocks from the main campus, and includes residences and sports practice facilities. The Spanish-style residential complex houses 700 students and features landscaped gardens and a conference center. It was previously the site of the [[California School for the Blind|California School for the Deaf and Blind]], and was acquired by The University after a court battle.

The [[Clark Kerr Medal]] is named in his honor.

==Bibliography==
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*[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/12/02/MNG833E5DM1.DTL AP obituary]
*[http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1529663 NPR ''All Things Considered'' - Educator Clark Kerr Dies at 92]
*[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/ account of secret files of the FBI] on Kerr, and Kerr's ouster.


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