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...faculty member, administrator or older student, our lives were changed. And often, these tales are made even more compelling by the fact that the person we were talking to did not suspect that the conversation would be pivotal. I’ve heard former University President Derek C. Bok tell a story about a short conversation he had with a law school professor in whose class he was not faring well. The conversation convinced Bok not to give up on law school and to consider that his talents might not be sufficiently on display in this one class but would...
...sons—many from private schools and from the East. Many of them were, of course, very fine—but quite a number were not, and there was a bit too much homogeneity. In this respect, there has been a revolution, instigated especially by Presidents Derek C. Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine, and carried out by all those in charge of admissions. The triumph of diversity, lamented by some conservatives who mistook it for a degradation of standards, is actually the best thing that could have happened—a grand experiment not only in cross-fertilization...
...continuing discussions with Clayton Spencer,” Fitzsimmons said. “We went in to see [then-Interim University President Derek C. Bok] within the first few weeks of his return and we proposed the early action change...
2/20/06: Facing another potential vote of no confidence and rising discontent among professors, Summers resigns. He is replaced by former Harvard president Derek C. Bok...
...Derek C. Bok, Harvard’s 25th president, when he completed an encore year as interim president following the Summers debacle...