Roger William Heyns (January 27, 1918, Grand Rapids, Michigan – September 11, 1995,

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Education

He received his A.B. degree from Calvin College in 1940 and his M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Career

He was the chancellor of

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from 1965 to 1971. UC President

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later wrote that of all the chancellors he personally worked with, Heyns had the most tormenting assignment of all. In 1968, Heyns became involved in the turmoil of Berkeley's

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. He also served as president of the

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and co-founded the

Public Policy Institute of California The Public Policy Institute of California is an independent, non-profit research institution. Based in San Francisco, California, the institute was established in 1994 by Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard, Roger Heyns, and Arjay Miller, with a $7 ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Heyns, Roger 1918 births 1995 deaths Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni 20th-century American academics