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." The award is given annually by the Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley. The award was established in 1968 as a tribute to the leadership and legacy of Clark Kerr. 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 from 1958 to 1967. He played a key role in shaping the University of California system.
Recipients of the award have included scholars, academic administrators, Nobel Prize winners, businesspersons, and public officials who have had a transformative impact on higher education and on society more broadly. The award is considered one of the most prestigious honors in higher education.
Recipients
+ List of awardeesYearWinners2024Carol T. Christ Sue Desmond-Hellmann2023Robert Zimmer Amy Gutmann2022Constance M. Carroll Timothy P. White2021Eduardo J. Padrón Shirley Ann Jackson2020J. Michael Bishop John L. Hennessy2019Freeman A. Hrabowski III Diana Natalicio2018Richard C. Atkinson C. Judson King2017Mary Sue Coleman2016George W. Breslauer2015Hanna Holborn Gray2014Marye Anne Fox2013Ricardo Romo2012Marian C. Diamond Robert M. Berdahl2010William G. Bowen2009Charles E. Young2008Harold T. Shapiro2007Karl S. Pister2006Nannerl O. Keohane2005Jack W. Peltason2004Lee C. Bollinger2002John Hope Franklin2000Herbert F. York1998Yuan T. Lee1997Chang-Lin Tien1996Sanford H. Kadish Philip Selznick1995Frank H. T. Rhodes1994Daniel E. Koshland Jr.1993Ira Michael Heyman1992Henry Rosovsky
Derek Bok
Thomas E. Everhart1991Kenneth S. Pitzer Robert J. Brentano1990Edmund G. Brown Sr.1989J. William Fulbright1988Morrough P. O'Brien
Lincoln Constance
Ewald T. Grether
Harry R. Wellman1987Robert E. Marshak1986Glenn T. Seaborg1985Lord Noel Gilroy Annan1984Sanford S. Elberg1983David Riesman1982Lynn White Jr.1981Richard W. Lyman1980Joel H. Hildebrand1979Choh-Ming Li1977James B. Conant1976Elinor Raas Heller1974John W. Gardner1973Theodore M. Hesburgh1972Earl Warren1971Roger W. Heyns1970Sir Eric Ashby1969J. E. Wallace Sterling1968Clark Kerr
See also University of California, Berkeley List of prizes named after people
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