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Another important part of a course is midterm course evaluations, when the students evaluate the class overall, said James Wilkinson, director of the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning...
That plan was ultimately vetoed by then-University President Derek C. Bok, but not before it incensed the liberal Democrats who controlled the Cambridge City Council...
...also right. In order to honor Orleans’s legacy, University President Drew G. Faust and the committee charged with finding his successor should choose a director who believes just as strongly in the unequivocal precedence of education over athletics. As Faust’s predecessor Derek C. Bok told the New York Times in 2006, when universities allow themselves to fall under the influence of big time athletics, “even responsible institutions end up doing things they don’t like doing.” To Bok, the Ivy League’s alleged marginalization...
...College seems to agree. As a result, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning initiated a program that collaborates with PBHA and the Public Service Network in order to place students in area schools. Still, even with some training in pedagogy, students can be susceptible to some pitfalls...
...home for the holidays. Yet, when the new calendar takes effect in the fall of 2009, undergraduates will get just 13 days off for winter break—fewer than under the current calendar. This is disappointing. In an e-mail last May, interim University President Derek C. Bok promised students that, under the new calendar, “students would finish fall term exams before winter vacation, allowing for a longer and less stressful break.” That promise, it seems, is to be left unfulfilled...