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Summers’ temporary replacement—former University President Derek C. Bok—will lead Harvard beginning on July 1 and until a permanent successor is named. As interim president, Bok is expected to assume his seat as the seventh member of the Corporation, but his name was not on the list of search committee members unveiled yesterday. In recent searches, the outgoing president has not served on the committee that selected his successor...
While Harvard’s St. Patrick’s Day revelers downed green beer and kicked little Irish jigs last Friday, Derek C. Bok was huddled in his office sending an e-mail to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) community. He reached out a hand, not to dance, but rather to solicit input on the search for a dean of the Faculty to replace William C. Kirby. At this juncture, we have two primary suggestions for Bok to consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment...
...curriculum report, the original intent of the requirement was to teach students that it is possible to think systematically about issues like justice, personal responsibility, and friendship. In Phyllis Keller’s book “Getting to the Core,” then-University President Derek C. Bok, addressing an audience of professional school faculty in 1976, said that whether or not ethical standards have declined, “most people seem to think that they have, and this belief...[can] sap the willingness to behave morally to others.” According to Keller, Bok thought that...
...Many students reacted with surprise upon receiving the e-mail from Bok. “For a second I thought I was on a special committee,” Samuel M. Johnson ’06-’07 said...
...Bok did not respond to e-mails requesting comment yesterday. Neither did A. Clayton Spencer and Kasia Lundy, two Mass. Hall officials named in Bok’s e-mail as his assistants in the search. Spencer is the University vice president for policy, and Lundy is chief of staff for the Office of the President...