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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}}
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In 1959, Kerr along with Chancellor [[Glenn T. Seaborg]] helped found the Berkeley [[Space Sciences Laboratory]].

==== Student protests====
[[Image:Clark Kerr on the cover of TIME Magazine, October 17, 1960.jpg|thumb|Clark Kerr on the cover of ''TIME'', October 17, 1960]]
Controversy exploded in 1964 when Berkeley students led the [[Free Speech Movement]] in protest of regulations limiting political activities on campus, including 
Civil Rights advocacy and [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|protests against the Vietnam war]]. It culminated in hundreds 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 reluctance 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(contracted; show full)[[Category:University of Washington faculty]]
[[Category:People from Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:People from Berkeley, California]]
[[Category:1911 births]]
[[Category:2003 deaths]]

[[he:קלארק קר]]
[[zh:克拉克·克尔]]