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Burr, who served as a Fellow of the College in the Harvard Corporation from 1954 to 1982, was a leader in the presidential search that led to the appointment of Derek Bok...
...Bok, who has been a long-time friend of Burr’s, said Burr himself came to break the news of the presidential decision...
...It’s by no means unusual that a president play a role ex-officio in these matters,” Kirby wrote in an e-mail. “Such was the case with President Bok, and, before him, President Conant, in the two most recent major reviews...
...criticism of Harvard’s holdings in General Motors, which uses discriminatory hiring and has a poor environmental record, President Pusey establishes the University’s first committee on shareholder responsibility. In response to protests over Harvard’s investments in 1972, President Derek C. Bok establishes the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ASCR) and the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR). The ASCR includes members of the faculty and student body and delivers a yearly report to the CCSR, which decides the University’s proxy shareholder votes and advises on divestment...
...announces that it will employ a system of proxy voting for partial divestment, asking the companies in which it invests to withdraw from South Africa. The Corporation rules out complete divestment as a “relatively ineffective means of pursuing ethical ends”; President Bok expresses reluctance to use the endowment as a political tool. The fight over divestment extends to the Board of Overseers and the Corporation, Harvard’s governing boards; professors, student groups, and alumni associations petition for the election of pro-divestment members...