Robert Max Berdahl (born March 15, 1937) is a retired American college and university administrator.
Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Berdahl received a Bachelor of Arts from Augustana College in 1959.
He would later follow Otto Pflanze to the University of Minnesota where he received his doctorate in 1965, with a dissertation on the Prussian Conservative Party during German unification circa 1870.
The presidency of the University of Oregon had recently been vacated by Richard Lariviere following his early termination by the state board.
[3] Three months into Berdahl's presidency the faculty voted to form a union affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and American Association of University Professors, and a month later Berdahl agreed to end efforts to prevent certification by the Oregon Employment Relations Board.