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...newly announced interim University President Derek C. Bok said that he will not impose his views on Harvard’s ongoing Curricular Review. However, in his latest work, “Our Underachieving Colleges,” he labors for 343 pages to spotlight his reforms for American universities...
Chronicling the failures of higher education, the book draws attention to the issues that reformers at Harvard will have to face in the coming months—and raises the question of whether Bok will be one of them...
...lengthy subtitle—“A Candid Look At How Much Students Learn And Why They Should Be Learning More”—provides a basic outline of Bok’s arguments. Employing recent educational studies and statistics, Bok seeks to quantify the unfulfilled promise of today’s colleges. He expresses his recommended changes in clear, unpretentious prose, but he insists on their urgency...
None of the book’s suggestions are groundbreakingly new. Nothing Bok says is truly exciting, but installing his improvements would strengthen the educational practices colleges currently have in place. His concern is not what changes to make, but how changes should be made...
Summers’ presidency has consisted of a long series of misguided and ill-conceived decisions and it is time to quietly fill in the grave he has dug for himself and find a president to succeed Dr. Bok who will inspire by example and illumination...