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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214988411

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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