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Chancellor, 1980-1990, Vice Chancellor, and professor of law, UC Berkeley, and secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999 : oral history transcript / 2004.
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Chancellor, 1980-1990, Vice Chancellor, and professor of law, UC Berkeley, and secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999 : oral history transcript / 2004
University history series

Creator/Contributor:

Heyman, Ira Michael, 1930-2011, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Heyman, Therese Thau, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Nathan, Harriet, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Childhood in Manhattan, Dartmouth College, A.B., Yale Law School, J.D. 1956; legislative assistant to Senator Irving Ives, 1950-1951; chief law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1958-1959; Marine Corps and Reserve, 1953-1958; marriage to Therese Thau; UC Berkeley: professor of law and of city and regional planning, 1959-, land use planning and environmental law; Vice Chancellor, 1974-1980, and Chancellor, 1980-1990: admissions, affirmative action, apartheid and divestiture, Free Speech Movement, HUAC; student housing, campus ceremonies; NCAA policies; discusses law practice, arbitration, land use and environmental law; city-campus relations, People's Park, faculty committees, undergrad teaching, faculty quality, fiscal stringency, VERIP (voluntary early retirement incentive program); reorganization of biochemistry; private resources, Keeping the Promise fundraising campaign; reflections on weapons-related laboratories; heading Bay Vision 2020; Department of Interior, deputy assistant secretary for policy, 1993-1994; Secretary, the Smithsonian Institution, 1994-1999.
Copies of speeches, clippings, biographical information on Heyman and his wife.

Date:

2004 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
College administrators -- California -- Berkeley -- Interviews
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
Apartheid
College administrators' spouses -- United States -- Interviews
Administrateurs d'université -- Californie -- Berkeley -- Entretiens
Apartheid
Management
Finance
College administrators
Apartheid
People's Park (Berkeley, Calif.)
United States
California -- Berkeley -- People's Park
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley -- History -- 20th century
University of California, Berkeley. -- Office of the Vice Chancellor.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Office of the Chancellor.
University of California, Berkeley -- Finance
University of California, Berkeley -- Administration
United States. -- Department of the Interior. -- Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management & Budget.
Smithsonian Institution -- Management
University of California, Berkeley. -- Office of the Chancellor
University of California, Berkeley
United States. -- Department of the Interior. -- Assistant Secretary, Policy, Management & Budget
Smithsonian Institution
Heyman, Ira Michael -- 1930-2011 -- Interviews
Heyman, Therese Thau -- Interviews
Heyman, Therese Thau
Heyman, Ira Michael -- 1930-2011

Note:

Ira Michael Heyman ; with an introduction by Sanford H. Kadish. Interviews conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1995-2001. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Includes an interview with Therese Thau Heyman.
Forms part of the University history series.
RESTRICTED CASSETTES, NO. 19-21. : Sealed until June 3, 2098 at request of the interviewee.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3772 C:1-21.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Interviews
History
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volumes ; 29 cm
21 audiocassettes
1 portfolio.

Language:

English

Identifier:

http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1c7q

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED CASSETTES, NO. 19-21. : Sealed until June 3, 2098 at request of the interviewee.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

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