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...Bok said that he hopes that other schools will follow suit and drop their early admission programs, but it is not yet clear whether Harvard will set the pace for its peers...
...decision” process with Harvard’s non-binding “early action.” It is Harvard’s hope, and ours too, that moving to single-stage admissions will increase the diversity of the student body. As interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical, where most students don?...
...Epstein’s gift is funding important research using mathematics to study areas such as evolutionary theory, viruses, and cancers,” a Harvard spokesman said yesterday. “The University is not considering returning this gift.” Interim President Derek C. Bok, who served as University president from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail that he was unfamiliar with the specific details of Epstein’s donation, but stands by his 1979 open letter to the Harvard community stating his views of the ethics of accepting controversial gifts...
Interim President Derek C. Bok said in May that he expects to see a temporary drop in gift-giving over the coming year as donors wait for a permanent president to take office...
...think a number of donors will probably feel that they will like to wait and see who the next president is before making commitments,” Bok said...