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Despite mixed Faculty opinions, Bok forged on with the plans to establish the Foundation...
...supported and still warmly support the Harvard Foundation as an alternative to a Third World Center,” Bok writes in an e-mail. The Foundation “helps carry out the fundamental philosophy behind diversity...that a diverse student body can provide a richer and more fruitful educational experience for everyone...
...task undertaken by the Foundation...was by no means easy or immediately popular," Bok recounted in a letter to the Foundation at its 20th anniversary. "Without a doubt, the experiment has succeeded beyond anyone’s legitimate explanations...
...permanent dean or president (and, for several months, the Faculty’s obsession with ousting Summers). But the notion that the departure of two men could leave the process so crippled has little basis in reality. Indeed, if there is anything newly appointed University President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles could shepherd without controversy, it is the curricular review that has been three-plus years in the making and has yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts on the curricular...
These groups called for the University to take immediate measures to improve campus security and were chafed when the administration did not share their sense of urgency. Then-president Derek C. Bok, rather than making immediate large-scale changes, responded by creating a new standing committee on security, chaired by then-associate dean Thomas A. Dingman...