Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, Diversity, and Planning in Higher Education

by Cristina González and Cristina González

This volume provides an intellectual history of Kerr's vision of the "multiversity," as expressed in his most famous work, The Uses of the University, and in his greatest administrative accomplishment, the California Master Plan for Higher Education. Building upon Kerr's use of the visionary hedgehog/shrewd fox dichotomy, the book explains the rise of the University of California as due to the articulation and implementation of the "hedgehog concept"...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412814588
• ISBN13: 9781412814584
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages