Burton R. Clark papers, circa 1955-2009
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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.
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[Identification of item], Burton Robert Clark papers (Collection 1861). UCLA Library Special Collections, University of California,
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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.
Box 1, Folder 1
Box 1, Folder 2
Box 1, Folder 3
Box 1, Folders 4-5
Box 1, Folder 6
Box 1, Folder 7
Box 1, Folder 8
Box 1, Folder 9
Box 1, Folder 10
Box 1, Folder 11
Box 1, Folders 12-14
Box 1, Folder 15
Comenius Medal (UNESCO) speech. 1998 October 4-9.
Copies of Clark's "University Transformation for the Twenty-First Century," remarks delivered to an international audience
of ministers of education and their national delegations, upon award of the Comenius Medal, at the UNESCO World Conference
on Higher Education, Paris, France. The Jan Amos Comenius Medal is intended to reward and promote outstanding achievements
and innovations carried out in the fields of teaching and educational research, as well as to commemorate the spiritual heritage
of Jan Amos Comenius.
Box 1, Folder 16
Presentations, speeches. 1991, 2005-2006.
An outline for Clark's fireside chat with UCLA Higher Education and Organizational Change graduate students, a copy of "Europe
in Transition: Implications for U.S. Higher Education," remarks prepared for a panel discussion at the 73rd Annual Meeting
of the American Council in Education and a copy of "Pursuing the Entrepreneurial University," his plenary keynote address
for international conference, Innovation and Change in the University, Brazil.
Box 1, Folder 17
Public lectures. circa 1975-1984.
Copies of Clark's lectures and outlines for public talks including "The Professoriate: Occupation in Crisis," "Integration
and Change in National Systems of Higher Education," "Access in Differing Political Systems," "The Development and Structure
of American Higher Education," "Comparative Higher Education," "Higher Education: Unique Problems, Tasks and Mechanisms of
Control," "Broadening Our Research Horizons: Comparative Higher Education," "Californian Higher Education in Comparative Perspective,"
"Higher Education: The U.S. as a Deviant Case," "Access Problems in Comparative Perspectives and the Cooling Out Function
Revisited," "The Open Door College: Reflections and Reconsiderations," "Italy - with special reference to Governance," "American
Higher Education: An Overview," "The Symbolic Side of Educational Organizations," "The Making of an Educational Saga," "The
Usefulness of the Social Sciences" and "Organization, Image and Environment."
Box 1, Folders 18-22
Box 1, Folders 23-24
Box 1, Folders 25-26
Box 1, Folders 27-28
Box 1, Folders 29-30
Box 1, Folders 31-32
Box 1, Folders 33-34
Box 2, Folders 1-7
Box 2, Folders 8-80
Box 3, Folders 1-86
Box 4, Folders 1-61
Box 5, Folders 1-20
Box 5, Folders 21-53
Publications and reprints [authored by Burton Robert Clark].
Materials include "Faculty Organization and Authority," "The Culture of College," "Sociology of Education," Economy, Change
and Renewal," "Knowledge, Industry and Adult Competence," "The Character of Colleges," "College, Image and Student Selection,"
"The Cooling-Out Function," "The Coming Shape of Higher Education in the United States," "Organizational Adaption and Precarious
Values," "Interorganizational Patterns in Education," "The Cooling-Out Function Revisited," "The Organizational Saga in Higher
Education," "Education: The Study of Educational Systems," "The Wesleyan Story: The Importance of Moral Capital," "Development
of the Sociology of Higher Education," "The Dossier in Colleges and Universities," "Dynamics of Academic Society," "The Organizational
Foundations of University Capability: Differentiation and Competition in the Academic Sector of Society" and "Belief and Loyalty
in College Organization."
Box 5, Folders 54-74
Box 5, Folders 75-79
Box 6
Publications and reprints [authored by Burton Robert Clark].
Materials include "The Marginality of Adult Education," "Problems of Access in the Context of Academic Structures," "The Absorbing
Errand," "Comparative Analysis of Systems of Higher Education," "The Many Faces of Academic Coordination," "The Changing Relations
Between Higher Education and Government: Some Perspectives From Abroad," "Graduate Schools and Professional Schools: Some
Cross-National Comparisons," "Mass Education and Advanced Education: Are They Necessarily Antithetical?" and "Excellence and
Equality in a Setting of Patrimonial Politics: The Case of Italy."