Monday, May 18

Outreach programs threatened by deficit

To improve his chances of being accepted at UCLA, Carson High School senior Richard Din participated in a University of California application workshop organized by the Early Academic Outreach Program. Read more...



Kerr’s Master Plan shaped modern UC, CSU systems

As Clark Kerr’s friends and colleagues sift through their memories of him, many remember his dream of universal access to higher education. Kerr was a major force behind the Master Plan for Higher Education, which dramatically increased Californians’ access to college, and that dream of access may be in jeopardy as California faces its current fiscal crisis. Read more...



A Visionary Remembered

Clark Kerr, the University of California president for much of the tumultuous 1960s whose model for higher education redefined the mission and purpose of universities across the country and throughout the world, has died. Read more...



Special feature: Clark Kerr

Former University of California President Clark Kerr, shown in a file photo from June 9, 2002, in El Cerrito, Calif. Kerr, who was the mastermind behind the modern public higher education system, died Monday at the age of 92. Read more...