Opportunity for Equality

Clark Kerr made a distinction between "equality of opportunity" and "opportunity for equality". The collapse of fox culture was bringing down many of the women and minority members of the corporation, who received the brunt of the discontent against it. Kerr conceded to the foxes in 2001, because he knew that if he had applied for his old job as president of the University of California at that moment, he would not have gotten it. People like him did not become presidents anymore. This must change. The university needed to articulate and implement a new hedgehog concept, and the only way to do this was by "interrupting the usual and challenging myths". According to Kerr, "management is the principal determinant of the productivity of labor". This was why the "most successful new policies in higher education have come from the top". Kerr warned about a growing division between duty and survival in university presidents.