Article ID: CBB001200586

To “Administer the Present”: Clark Kerr and the Purpose of the Postwar American Research University (2012)

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This article explores the intellectual and institutional contexts of the seminal ideas about the American research university expressed in Clark Kerr's book The Uses of the University (1963). In particular, it suggests how Kerr's relationship to the administrative science movement, an important thread of postwar American social science, shaped his concept of the university. It focuses special attention on an important yet little-known 1957 speech in which Kerr suggested that the university's purpose was increasingly to "administer the present." The article concludes by showing how the development of the University of California's new campus at Irvine in the 1960s reflected his ideas about relating social science theory to administering the present.

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Authors & Contributors
Rainger, Ronald
Scott, W. Richard
Weismeyer, Michael Brett
Friedlander, Judith
Joanna Leslie Dyl
Wood, Susan Marie
Concepts
Research support
Universities and colleges
Science and society
Science and government
Patronage
Research and development (R&D)
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20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
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20th century, early
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United States
California (U.S.)
Europe
Great Britain
San Francisco (California)
Spain
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University of California
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Rockefeller Foundation
New School for Social Research
Southeast Fisheries Science Center (Miami, Florida)
Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research (Beaufort, N. C.)
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