Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While community pressure on the University increases, governmental pressure on universities in general is growing at what Bok considers an alarming rate. A panoply of government regulations concerning college finance, affirmative action guidelines and access to student files have shattered the once idyllic laissez-faire posture of state and federal governments toward universities...
...lashed out against federal regulation in his annual report to the Overseers this year, says the University "has changed the line we will be following in its lobbying efforts. Unable to effectively ward off pending legislation, the University will strive to establish subtler points of access to the individuals drafting the enactments affecting Harvard...
...called for a 2.5-to-1 male-female ratio to replace the 4-to-1 balance used for the Class of 1975 and its predecessors. This shift was relatively moderate, calling merely for a drop of 25 in the number of male undergraduates. But the move to equal access admissions this year--a policy officially endorsed by the Strauch Committee but long pushed by Bok--involved a far greater risk of alumni support and donations. Bok's commitment has not emphasized the practical, either; in his 1974 Commencement week speech to the alumni, Bok said: "The admissions practices...
...author of several publications dealing with medical ethics, Bok is concerned with issues such as euthanasia, access to medical care, abortion, and truth telling in doctor-patient relationships...
Soon the alumni filed into Kresge Hall, where a dinner of steak and baked potatoes awaited them. Bok lingered at the back of the crowd, assuring one alumnus that, no, people weren't up in arms about equal access admissions; that he had received only about six letters of protest, and that he was "delighted" with how well the change had been effected...