My UCLA chancellorship : an utterly candid view : oral history transcript / Murphy D. Franklin ; interviewed by James V. Mink ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976.

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My UCLA chancellorship : an utterly candid view : oral history transcript / Murphy D. Franklin ; interviewed by James V. Mink ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976.

Murphy discusses his Chancellorship at University of Kansas, and invitation to the University of California, Los Angeles, from Clark Kerr; decision, based on meetings with community, faculty ; choosing assistants, issues of authority, problems in developing autonomy for the UCLA campus; battles with Berkeley, confrontations with regents; interplay with Clark Kerr, poor communication; other chancellors, University vice presidents, conflicts of interest; Berkeley student movement [free speech] contrasted with UCLA's crisis; Strong, Heyns, Reagan, Byrne Report; Murphy's successor Charles Young; interest in the professional schools, athletics, alumni affairs; fine arts, the Murphy Sculpture Garden.

Transcript: 1 v. (xii, 329 leaves) : port. ; 29 cm.

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