Burton Clark Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus of Higher Education 2031B Moore Hall (310) 458 1640 clark@gseis.ucla.edu

Education

BA, UCLA, 1949
Ph.D., UCLA 1954

Teaching Interests

He has taught at 5 U.S. leading research universities in departments of sociology and graduate schools of education: Stanford University (Sociology, 1953-1956); Harvard University (Education, 1956-1958); University of California, Berkeley (1958-1966): Yale University (Sociology, 1966-1980); University of California, Los Angeles (Education, 1980-1991, Emeritus (1991--).

During the first 20-25 years of his career, Professor Clark concentrated on organizational studies of different sectors of American higher education -- community colleges, distinctive private colleges -- and on academic careers in various sectors, including research universities. Since 1970 he has engaged in comparative analysis of national systems of higher education and their specific forms of university organization, focusing on graduate schools, and most recently, on the transformation and sustainability of proactive, "entrepreneurial" universities around the globe.

Recent Publications

Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts. Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK: The Open University Press-McGraw-Hill, 2004.

"The Organizational Foundations of University Capability: Differentiation and Competition in the Academic Sector of Society," in Jeffrey C. Alexander, Gary T. Marx, and Christine L. Williams, (eds.), Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology (essays in honor of Neil Smelser). pp.168-187. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 2004.

"Sustaining Change in Universities: Continuities in Case Studies and Concepts, Tertiary Education and Management 9 (2003): pp. 99-116

"University Transformation: Primary Pathways to University Autonomy, and Achievement," in Steven Brint (ed.), The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University. pp.322-342. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.

"The Entrepreneurial University: New Foundations for Collegiality, Autonomy, and Achievement," Higher Education Management, 13(2). 2001; 9-24.

"Collegial Entrepreneurialism in Proactive Universities: Lessons from Europe," Change, Jan/Feb, 2000: 10-19.

Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation, Oxford: Pergamon-Elsevier Science, 1998.