Lee Eliot Berk (1942 – October 21, 2023) was an American academic who was President and namesake of the Berklee College of Music (founded as Schillinger House in 1945 by his father, Lawrence Berk, who renamed the school after Lee in 1954) from 1979[1]: 169 to 2004.
[1]: 216 Educational applications of music technology expanded, the college administration was reorganized, more student services were added, and non-music academic offerings increased.
[1]: 169, 170 In 1992, he established the Berklee International Network that includes music schools with a shared mission around the globe.
[3] He began working at Berklee College of Music in 1966, serving first as bursar and supervisor of the Private Study Division.
[1]: 100 He is the author of Legal Protection for the Creative Musician, which won an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1971.