The Clark Kerr Award, fully the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education or the Clark Kerr Medal is an award given to a person who has made "an extraordinary and distinguished contribution to the advancement of higher education." The award, established in 1968, is given annually by the Academic Senate of the University of California, Berkeley.Past recipients have included Glenn T. Seaborg, Yuan T. Lee, Herbert York, Lee Bollinger, Frank H.T.