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Berkeley: Administrative Officers
Chief Campus Officers
The President of the University was the chief
administrative officer at Berkeley until July, 1952. Between 1945
and 1947, however, delegation of "full authority, under the president,
to administer the (academic) departments on the campus" was granted
to a provost--at that time Monroe E. Deutsch. Following the retirement
of Deutsch in 1947, the President again assumed direct administrative
control of the campus until July, 1952, when the first chancellor
was appointed and directed to assume operating jurisdiction over
the colleges, schools, and other organizational units on the Berkeley
campus in accordance with the policies of the Regents and of the
President of the University. source
Clark Kerr, 1952-58
Clark Kerr was the first officer of the Berkeley
campus to be designated chancellor. Born at Stony Creek, Pennsylvania,
May 17, 1911, he was educated at Swarthmore College (A.B. 1932),
Stanford University (M.A. 1933), and the Berkeley campus (Ph.D.
in economics, 1939). He taught at Antioch College, Stanford University,
and the University of Washington before joining the Berkeley faculty
in 1945 as associate professor and later full professor of industrial
relations and director of the Institute of Industrial Relations.
In 1952, he was named chancellor of the Berkeley campus, a post
he occupied until 1958, when he became President of the University.
As the first chancellor, he determined the organization and scope
of the office; long-range academic and physical development plans
(including development of the Student Center complex) were formulated
during his administration. He also worked to improve communication
between the University and the city of Berkeley. source
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Glenn Theodore Seaborg, 1958-61
Glenn Theodore Seaborg, the second chancellor
at Berkeley, was born at Ishpeming, Michigan, April 19, 1912, and
attended the Los Angeles campus (A.B. 1934) and Berkeley (Ph.D.
in chemistry, 1937). From 1937, he was engaged in teaching and research
at Berkeley; in 1941, he was an assistant professor and later full
professor of chemistry. On leave to the Metallurgical Laboratory
at the University of Chicago from 1942 to 1946, he was connected
with the Manhattan Project, returning to Berkeley to direct nuclear
chemical research (1946-54). He became associate director of the
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in 1954 and also served as Berkeley
chancellor from 1958 to 1961, when he was appointed to the chairmanship
of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, a position he held
until he returned to the Berkeley campus in 1971. He resumed his
associate directorship of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, was
named University Professor of Chemistry, and was appointed the first
Chairman of the Lawrence Hall of Science in 1984. He was co-discoverer
of nine transuranium elements, including plutonium, and two fissionable
isotopes and was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1951. The
campus academic plan was first put into effect under his administration;
the physical plan was carried forward with the construction of a
number of buildings, including Kroeber Hall, the Student Union,
and the Dining Commons. He died in 1999. source
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Edward William Strong, 1961-65
Edward William Strong, the third Berkeley
chancellor, was born at Dallas, Oregon, October 16, 1901, and was
educated at Stanford University (A.B. 1925) and Columbia University
(M.A. 1929; Ph.D. in philosophy, 1937). He lectured at City College
of New York before coming to the Berkeley campus as a lecturer in
1932; in 1936 he was appointed an assistant professor and in 1947
a full professor of philosophy. From 1942-45, he was the laboratory
manager of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. He served as chairman
of the department of sociology and social institutions as well as
chairman of the department of philosophy; he also served as associate
dean of the College of Letters and Science, vice-chairman of the
Berkeley division of the Academic Senate, and consultant to the
United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Named
chancellor of the Berkeley campus in 1961, he held that post until
1965, having previously been vice-chancellor in charge of academic
affairs and acting chancellor. As chancellor, he was involved in
planning for the change from a campus of extensive growth to one
of intensive growth. Buildings constructed during his administration
include Latimer, Barrows, Wurster, and Etcheverry Halls. In 1965,
he was named Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
and Civil Polity. He continued teaching until retirement in 1967.
His death occurred in his Berkeley home on January 13, 1990. source
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Martin Meyerson, 1965
Martin Meyerson was acting chancellor at
the Berkeley campus from January to July, 1965. Born in New York
City, November 14, 1922, he attended Columbia University (A.B. 1942)
and Harvard University (M.C.P.--master of city planning--1949).
He taught at the Universities of Chicago, Yale, and Pennsylvania
and was director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies at Harvard
and Massachusetts Institute of Technology before coming to the Berkeley
campus in 1963 as professor of urban development and dean of the
College of Environmental Design. In addition to his academic experience,
he was a member of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, executive
director of the American Council to Improve Our Neighborhoods, and
a member of the Committee for Economic Development. Taking office
at the height of a campus controversy concerning student rights
and privileges, he advanced efforts to develop new teaching methods
and to improve relationships among students, administration and
faculty members. source
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Roger William Heyns, 1965-71
Roger William Heyns was born in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, January 27, 1918. He studied at Calvin College (A.B. 1940)
and at the University of Michigan (M.A. 1942; Ph.D. in psychology,
1949). He joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1947, receiving
the Outstanding Teacher Award in 1952 and the Faculty Distinguished
Service Award in 1958. He was appointed dean of the College of Literature,
Science, and Arts in 1958 and vice-president for academic affairs
in 1962. He came to Berkeley as chancellor in 1965 and left the
position in 1971 to become president of the American Council on
Education. From 1977 to 1993, he directed the Hewlett-Packard Foundation
in Palo Alto. source
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Albert H. Bowker, 1971-80
Albert Bowker succeeded Roger Heyns as
Berkeley chancellor in 1971 and served until 1980. He attended M.I.T.
(A.B. 1943) and Columbia (Ph.D. in mathematics, 1949). He served
on the faculty of Stanford from 1947 to 1963, and was chancellor
of City College of New York from 1963 to 1971. Though state allocations
to Berkeley were reduced during Bowker's tenure, he was able to
raise funding for Bechtel Engineering Center and the Optometry Center
(Minor Hall). In 1980, Bowker resigned to join President Jimmy Carter's
cabinet as the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Post-Secondary Education.
Following that, he became Dean of the School of Public Affairs at
the University of Maryland from 1981-84. In recent years he has
returned to Berkeley as Professor of Statistics, Emeritus, and is
often seen on campus. source
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Ira Michael Heyman, 1980-90
Ira Michael Heyman continued his long history
of service to the Berkeley campus when he was appointed chancellor
in 1980. Heyman joined the Law faculty in 1959 and served as vice-chancellor
starting in 1974. Heyman completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth
College and received his law degree from Yale University. As chancellor,
Heyman presided over the renovation of sciences buildings and curriculum.
He also worked to expand the amount of support to the University
through private donors. During his years as chancellor, the ethnic
diversity of the student population increased significantly: by
1990, non-white undergraduates represented 51 percent of the student
body. When Heyman left the chancellorship in 1990, he returned to
teaching law and was named secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
in 1994. source
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Chang-Lin Tien, 1990-1997
Chang-Lin Tien assumed the chancellorship
of Berkeley in 1990. Originally a native of China, Tien recieved
degrees from National Taiwan University (1955), the University of
Louisville (M.M.E. 1957), and Princeton University (M.A. 1957, Ph.D.
1959). He joined Berkeley's Mechanical Engineering faculty in 1959
and was that department's chair from 1974 to 1981. He served as
executive vice chancellor at Irvine from 1988-1990. Tien continued
former chancellor Heyman's drive for private support for Berkeley
and became an outspoken defender of affirmative action. Many important
building projects were completed under his tenure, including the
Haas School of Business, the new Main Stack of Doe Library, Soda
Hall for computer sciences, and the University Health Service's
Tang Center. Chang-Lin Tien left the chancellorship in 1997. source
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Robert M. Berdahl, 1997-
In 1997, Robert M. Berdahl became Berkeley's
eighth chancellor. Much of his energy has been devoted to upgrading
the campus' infrastructure, including major seismic renovations
and investment in library collections development. He also reorganized
and reformed the campus's administration, addressing needs in several
areas--including increasing women and minority faculty and strengthening
the use of information technology in the classroom. Berdahl came
to Berkeley from the University of Texas at Austin, where he served
as its President for four years. Berdahl attended Augustana College
(B.A.), and the University of Illinois (M.A.). He received his Ph.D.
in history from the University of Minnesota in 1965. source
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