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...July 1, after a 15-year absence from Mass. Hall, Bok will retake Harvard’s reins as the university recovers from its own revolution this winter...
...Bok last week paid his first known visit to campus since being appointed interim president. In meetings with professors, he encountered a faculty still shaken by the resignations of University President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, and still uncertain about how the search for Kirby’s successor will work...
According to professors at the meetings, Bok reassured them that he—not Summers—would pick the next dean in a timely fashion, and that he would consult broadly with professors in doing...
...Much of the faculty’s anxiety about the search “has just vaporized with the sense of calm brought to this discussion by President Bok,” said James J. McCarthy, the chair of the environmental studies and public policy committee and one of two coordinators of an informal group of department chairs...
...accounts, Bok is already tackling the most urgent of those issues—the search for someone to fill Kirby’s post, which opens up on July 1. “He told us that he is starting right now to work on the search,” McCarthy said...