Quotes from Clark Kerr

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

I find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

The university has become the multiversity and the nature of the presidency has followed this change…. The president of the multiversity is leader, educator, wielder of power, pump; he is also officeholder, caretaker, inheritor, consensus seeker, persuader, bottleneck. But he is mostly a mediator.

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.