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Title: Burton R. Clark papers
Collection number: 1861
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
5.5 linear ft.
(1 document box and 5 record storage cartons.)
Date: circa 1955-2009
Abstract: Robert Burton Clark, UCLA Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Sociology, was one of the first sociologists to study
higher education from a global perspective. His research interests include comparative higher education, development of graduate
schools, entrepreneurial universities, and sustaining change in universities. Materials include transcripts of presentations,
speeches and lectures as well as conference files, research files, publications, reprints, and alphabetical files of correspondence.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Clark, Burton R.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Burton Robert Clark papers (Collection 1861). UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California,
Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7265462
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Donated by Adele Clark to University Archives, 2010.
Processed by Kelly Besser in consultation with University Archivist Charlotte Brown.
Burton “Bob” Clark earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1954. Clark was the first
incumbent of the Allan M. Cartter Professorship and served in that post until his formal retirement as Professor Emeritus
of Higher Education and Sociology, UCLA. During his career, he taught at five American research universities in departments
of sociology and graduate schools of education: Stanford University (Sociology, 1953-1956); Harvard University (Education,
1956-1958); UC Berkeley (Education, 1958-1966); Yale University (Sociology, 1966-1980); and UCLA (Education, 1980-1991). Clark
was one of the first sociologists to study higher education from a global perspective. His research interests include comparative
higher education, development of graduate schools, entrepreneurial universities, and sustaining change in universities. Clark’s
cross-national research laid the foundation for his landmark book,
Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (1998). Clark’s numerous publications also include
The Open Door College (1960),
The Distinctive College (1970),
Academic Power in Italy (1977),
The Academic Life: Small Worlds, Different Worlds (1987), and
Places of Inquiry, Research and Advanced Education in Modern Universities (1995). In 1989 he was elected fellow of the British Society for Research into Higher Education and became a Distinguished
Member of the European Association for Institutional Research in 1997. The following year he received the Comenius Medal from
UNESCO and was awarded honorary doctoral degrees from the universities of Strathclyde (1998) and Turku (2000). Clark died
on October 28, 2009.
The collection consists of records related to Burton R. Clark's career as a professor of education and sociology at the University
of California, Los Angeles. Materials include transcripts of presentations, speeches and lectures, conference files, research
files, publications, reprints, and alphabetical files of correspondence.
This collection was arranged according to the creator's original order.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clark, Burton R.--Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles. School of Education--Faculty--Archives.
Sociologists--United States--Archives.