Background
Gardner was born in Berkeley, California, to Reed S. Gardner and Margaret Pierpont Gardner.
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David Pierpont Gardner
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University of California, Berkeley. Brigham Young University.
Career
They had four daughters (Karen, Shari, Lisa, and Marci) before Libby"s death in 1991. Gardner"s bachelor"s degree in political science, history, and geography was earned at Brigham Young University in 1955. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley, to obtain an Master of Arts in political science in 1959 and a Doctor of Philosophy in higher education in 1966.
He was appointed as Assistant to the Chancellor at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) before completing his Doctor of Philosophy, and accepted a joint appointment as Assistant Chancellor and Professor of Higher Education at UCSB in 1967.
He moved to University of California, Berkeley as the Vice President for Public Service Programs and University Dean of University Extension for University of California, Berkeley in 1971, then became the Vice President for Extended Academic and Public Service Programs in the Office of the President (University of California System wide) in 1972. Gardner left the University of California to become the president of the University of Utah in 1973.
He stayed there until he returned to the University of California in 1983 as President. He resigned after her death in 1991 (effective in 1992), stating that he could not continue without her.
He was given a controversial retirement package worth nearly $2.4 million
Gardner served as President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation from 1993 to 1999.
He became a professor of educational leadership and policy in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Utah in 2001. He was also the chair of National Commission on Excellence in Education, whose members wrote the well-known educational document, A Nation at Risk.
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Mormonism