Clark Kerr Lecture

2007 Clark Kerr Lecture on the Role of Higher Education in Society

Donald Kennedy
editor-in-chief of Science
President emeritus, Stanford University

Science and the University: An Evolutionary Tale
Part III: Science, Security and Control

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2007
4 p.m. Reception
5 p.m. Lecture
Crystal Cove Auditorium
UCI Student Center
Free and open to the public

Science and its university proprietors today confront a new set of questions. Whether in the later phases of the Cold War or in the early phases of the Terror War, universities find themselves witnessing a replay of the old battle between science, which would prefer to have everything open, and security, which would like to have some of it secret. Struggles in the early 1980’s regarding application of arms control regulations to basic data resulted in some solutions that some hoped would be permanent. But after 9/11, a host of new issues surfaced. Not limited to arms control considerations, the new concerns included the publication of data or methods that might fall into the wrong hands. At the same time, science was confronting a different kind of security problem: instead of being employed to decide policy, science was being manipulated or kept secure in order to justify preferred policy outcomes.

Introductions by Chancellor Michael V. Drake and John Douglass, senior research fellow, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

This event is sponsored by the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, with the support of the UC Office of the President and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Donald Kennedy is the editor-in-chief of Science, the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a CESP senior fellow by courtesy. His present research program entails policy on such trans-boundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies.

Kennedy has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. From 1980 to 1992 he served as president of Stanford University. He was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 1977 to 1979. Previously at Stanford, he was as director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973 to 1977 and chair of the Department of Biology from 1964 to 1972.

Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, and as a founding director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as co-chair of the National Academies’ Project on Science, Technology and Law. Kennedy received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard University.

The Clark Kerr Lectures, a biennial event, are named in honor of Clark Kerr, first chancellor of the Berkeley campus (1952-1958), and president emeritus of the University of California (1958-1967). Organized by the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, lectures are given in alternate years at one or more UC campuses by leading scholars and practitioners on the major policy issues facing higher education and its role in society. The first two lectures were given Oct. 31 and Nov. 7 at UC Berkeley.

For more information, please visit http://cshe.berkeley.edu/events/index.php?all&s=2.

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