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Edward William Strong (October

16, 1901 - January 13, 1990) was the Chancellor

of the University of California at Berkeley between 1961 and

1965. He resigned in March 1965, in large part due to his actions during

the Free Speech Movement,

which was beginning at that time. Besides his role as chancellor, Strong

founded UC Berkeley's Department of Sociology and Social Institutions in 1946,

chaired it until 1953, as well as in another of other campus roles. Edward

Strong graduated from Stanford University in

1925, and went on to receive a master's and doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University in

1929 and 1937, respectively. Edward Strong first joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1932 as a lecturer, before being promoted

to full professor in 1947. He founded Berkeley's Department of

Sociology and Social Institutions in 1946, and chaired it until 1953. Strong

also served for most of this period as an associate dean of the College of

Letters and Science. He was appointed a Vice-Chancellor in 1958, and

became Chancellor

of the University of California at Berkeley, a role he served

between 1961 and 1965. While Strong was Chancellor, he

helped contribute to the establishment of Berkeley's Department of Computer

Science. He resigned in March 1965, in large part due to his actions

during the Free Speech Movement,

which was beginning at that time. After his resignation as Chancellor,

Strong was appointed to the Mills Professorship of Intellectual and Moral

Philosophy and Civil Polity, where he taught until 1967, when he retired. Besides

for his academic work, Strong was once president of the American Philosophical

Association, and was the primary founder of the Journal of the History of the Philosophy. He was also

instrumental in the construction of the Radiation Laboratory on Charter Hill,

which morphed in to the Lawrence Berkeley

Laboratory, which later participated in significant research into

nuclear weapons. Strong's tenure as Chancellor at Berkeley was marked by strife

related to the free speech movement,

leading to his resignation in March 1965.[3] When Strong resigned he issued a

statement blaming Clark Kerr (who had resigned previously) for

"capitulating to the tide of revolt, subversive of law and order." While

acting as Chancellor, Strong favored harsh disciplinary policies, and was upset

that Clark Kerr had made certain concessions to the

"student rebels" involved in the Free Speech Movement. Strong's

actions during the Free Speech Movement were harshly criticized by some

students and faculty members for the approach he took to free speech activity

on campus.