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Roger William Heyns (January 27, 1918,
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professor and academic who served as the fourth chancellor of the
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from 1965 to 1971.


Education

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

Heyns spent the first part of his career as a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, where he had obtained his graduate degrees. He started teaching there in 1947, two years before receiving his doctorate, and in 1957 was promoted to dean of UMich's
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. In 1961, he was again promoted to vice president of academic affairs. Heyns served as UC Berkeley's chancellor 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 Free Speech Movement. After retiring from the chancellorship, Heyns went on to serve as president of the
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and also co-founded the
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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