ABSTRACT
This chapter examines The Uses of the University from an archeological point of view. Clark Kerr's comments about gender and ethnic diversity in The Uses of the University seem to support this view. According to Kerr, Howard R. Bowen was one of the last optimistic hedgehogs of the 1960s, with whom he shared "tunnel visions of a better world through the efforts of the modern university". In 2001, Kerr looked around and saw "many things occurring, not one or two big things, all at once and with and against each other—a natural habitat for the fox". According to Mary Clark Stuart (1980), diversity was an area that did not seem to have fully entered Kerr's field of vision although he was in many ways a pioneer in terms of his thinking about equality of opportunity. Kerr laments the disintegration of the guild status of the faculty, listing affirmative action among the contributing factors.
