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Since arriving at Harvard, he has worked with students as a teaching fellow in Government 20, “Introduction to Comparative Politics” and other College government courses, receiving the Derek Bok Award for Teaching Excellence. This semester, he is the head TF for Noam Chomsky’s “Politics, Justice, and Social Change,” a course offered jointly between the Kennedy School...
...started under Bok to try to make some sense out of the jumble. “The objective ought to be to provide an undergraduate experience in which as many undergraduates as possible could be encouraged to actively be involved in the arts,” Bok says of the initial impetus for an organization to advise extracurricular activity. Porter Professor of Fine Arts Emeritus James S. Ackerman, who chaired the 1970s committee that suggested establishing the OFA, characterizes Bok’s model as one which rewarded broad-based involvement in the arts. “President Bok thought...
...since the 1970’s. The mainstage of Harvard’s Loeb Drama Center, the largest and most technically sophisticated theater space in Cambridge, is available to students just six weeks a semester. Originally built as a full-time undergraduate theater and staffed by six, former President Bok decided undergraduates would benefit from mentorship opportunities if they shared the building with the American Repertory Theater in 1980. However, Gross, Lewis and Bok all say the relationship between undergraduates and the professional acting troupe is less than ideal, and the two compete for limited space. Lewis estimates...
Summers has held a few breakfasts and dinner parties for arts administrators and faculty, and those present at the meetings say he showed interest and asked intelligent questions. But by contrast to those who sat at his Mass. Hall desk before—Bok, who hosted yearly concerts where student musicans played for faculty, and Rudenstine, who had always professed a love of culture and whose wife was an internationally renowned art collector—Summers comes with little background knowledge. “Summers is totally unconcerned,” Ackerman says of Summers’ commitment...
Rudenstine and Bok never chose to focus on the role of arts in the curriculum, and pushed very little for additional academic credit for performing arts. Bok says he never thought academic performance courses would make it past Faculty approval. “Harvard’s pretty strict about what it means to give credit,” Bok says. “It was clear that [the Faculty] wasn’t going to be easy on providing credit...