Clark Kerr Award

The Clark Kerr Award, fully the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education or the Clark Kerr Medal is an award given to a person who has made "an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education."[1] The award is given annually by the Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley.[1] The award was established in 1968 as a tribute to the leadership and legacy of Clark Kerr.[2][3] He was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California.

Clark Kerr Award
Awarded forOutstanding contributions to the advancement of higher education
CountryUnited States
Presented byUniversity of California, Berkeley
First awarded1968 (1968)
Last awarded2021

Recipients
List of awardees[4]
Year Winners
2021 Eduardo J. Padrón

Shirley Ann Jackson

2020 J. Michael Bishop

John L. Hennessy

2019 Freeman A. Hrabowski III[5]

Diana Natalicio

2018 Richard C. Atkinson

C. Judson King

2017 Mary Sue Coleman
2016 George W. Breslauer
2015 Hanna Holborn Gray
2014 Marye Anne Fox[6]
2013 Ricardo Romo[7]
2012 Marian C. Diamond

Robert M. Berdahl

2010 William G. Bowen
2009 Charles E. Young
2008 Harold T. Shapiro
2007 Karl S. Pister
2006 Nannerl O. Keohane
2005 Jack W. Peltason
2004 Lee C. Bollinger[8]
2002 John Hope Franklin[9]
2000 Herbert F. York
1998 Yuan T. Lee
1997 Chang-Lin Tien
1996 Sanford H. Kadish

Philip Selznick

1995 Frank H. T. Rhodes
1994 Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
1993 Ira Michael Heyman
1992 Henry Rosovsky

Derek Bok

Thomas E. Everhart

1991 Kenneth S. Pitzer

Robert J. Brentano

1990 Edmund G. Brown Sr.
1989 J. William Fulbright
1988 Morrough P. O'Brien

Lincoln Constance

Ewald T. Grether

Harry R. Wellman

1987 Robert E. Marshak
1986 Glenn T. Seaborg
1985 Lord Noel Gilroy Annan
1984 Sanford S. Elberg
1983 David Riesman
1982 Lynn White Jr.
1981 Richard W. Lyman
1980 Joel H. Hildebrand
1979 Choh-Ming Li
1977 James B. Conant
1976 Elinor Raas Heller
1974 John W. Gardner
1973 Theodore M. Hesburgh
1972 Earl Warren
1971 Roger W. Heyns
1970 Sir Eric Ashby
1969 J. E. Wallace Sterling
1968 Clark Kerr

See also

References
  1. "History of the Clark Kerr Award" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 19, 2016. Retrieved March 25, 2013.
  2. Hechinger, Grace (2003-12-02). "Clark Kerr, Leading Public Educator and Former Head of California's Universities, Dies at 92 (Published 2003)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  3. Johnson, Dean C. (1996). The University of California: History and Achievements. Regents of the University of California.
  4. "History of the Clark Kerr Award | Academic Senate". academic-senate.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  5. "Leading Black Educators in US Black Engineer Magazine". US Black Engineer. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  6. "Marye Anne Fox to Receive the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education". Women In Academia Report. 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  7. "UTSA President Ricardo Romo receives prestigious UC Berkeley leadership award". www.utsa.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  8. "About the President | Office of the President". president.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
  9. "John Hope Franklin Given Top Honor By UC Berkeley's Academic Senate". today.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-13.
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