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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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
Chang-Lin Tien, 1990-97
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
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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