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Welcomed by a standing-room only crowd of professors and a teary dean, Derek C. Bok yesterday presided over his first Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting as interim president and put the College’s curricular review at the top of the FAS agenda...
...With Bok’s life-size oil portrait on the wall to his left, the veteran Harvard president took up his gavel for the first time in 15 years. Although he is expected to leave his post by mid-summer, Bok laid out an active agenda for the academic year. He said the administration would work to become more transparent, propose a master plan for the new Allston campus, and move to integrate science research across the University...
...Bok said the long-awaited overhaul of the Core Curriculum—given fresh momentum earlier this month by the release of a new general education proposal—should be the Faculty’s top priority...
These duties, while important for the office, should not be the main focus of the job, according to Bok...
...when the author of “Making Harvard Modern,” historian Morton Keller, was asked whether Clinton stood a chance of succeeding Interim President Derek C. Bok, he said, simply...