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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}}
(contracted; show full) San Francisco Chronicle|date=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."

Kerr's perceived leniency was key in Reagan's election as [[Governor of California]] in 1966 {{
factCitation needed|date=April 2010}} and in Kerr's dismissal as president by the university’s Board of Regents in 1967. In response, Kerr stated that he left the university just as he entered it: "fired with enthusiasm."

Kerr’s second memoir, ''The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the [[University of California]], 1949-1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil'' details what he refers to as his greatest blunders in dealing with the [[Free Speech Movement]] that ultimately led to his firing.

<center><gallery style="center">
Image:McCone-Hoover, UC Berkeley 1965.gif|CIA's McCone, at Pauley's request, asks Hoover to target anti-war protests at UC Berkeley.
Image:Reagan-Hoover_UCB_memo1.gif|1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p.1.
Image:Reagan-Hoover_UCB_memo2.gif|1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p.2.
Image:Reagan-Hoover_UCB_memo3.gif|1969 FBI memo re: Ronald Reagan's purge of UC Berkeley, p.3.
</gallery></center>

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.

Kerr also served as Chairman, l984 USPS National Agreement arbitration chairman--—and then joined the USPS panel of national contract arbitrators.

===Personal 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 honors==
There are Kerr Halls on the campuses of [[University 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|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|title=UCSC - Virtual Tour: Kerr Hall|url=http://www.ucsc.edu/about/vtour/kerr.asp |publisher=U.C. Santa Cruz|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 University was not a party to the case.  It was offered the site after the Schools for the Deaf and Blind relinquished it to the State as surplus property.)

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

Another legacy was his wit--—after writing a serious book "The Purposes of the University", Kerr surprised an audience with this riposte--"The three purposes of the University?--To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty."<ref>W.J. Rorabaugh, Berkeley at War: The 1960s, p. 12, quoted at http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt687004sg&chunk.id=d0e21648&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text</ref>

And after being fired by California's Governor (future President) Ronald Reagan, Kerr responded that he left office as he had begun--"Fired with enthusiasm".

==Bibliography==
*Kerr, Clark, ''The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967''
*Kerr, Clark, ''The Uses of the University'', 5th edition. 1963; Harvard University Press, 2001.
*Kerr, Clark, John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison, and Charles A. Myers, ''Industrialism and Industrial Man: The Problem of Labor and Management in Economic Growth''. Harvard University Press, 1960.
*Burress, Charles, "The Long, Hard Years at Berkeley; Second Volume of Clark Kerr’s Memoir Covers Politics and ‘Blunders'," ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 9 February 2003, Sunday Review, p.&nbsp;1.
*"UC Won’t Expel Sit-in Students," ''Los Angeles Times'', 6 May 1964, p.&nbsp;8.
*"The Arrests at Berkeley," ''New York Times'', 5 December 1964, p.&nbsp;30.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/02_kerr.shtml U.C. Berkeley news release]
* ''San Francisco Chronicle'', "[http://sfgate.com/news/special/pages/2002/campusfiles/ Reagan, Hoover, and the UC Red Scare]," 9 June, 2002. 
*[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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