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...panelists were former Harvard president Derek C. Bok and Jordan Meranus, the Boston director of Jumpstart, a service organization for college students. The discussion was moderated by Skocpol...
...Bok, who is currently 300th anniversary university professor, emphasized the importance of the "preparation of students as good and active citizens," especially at a time when student involvement in politics is waning...
This event was one of the many organized and sponsored by the Harvard Foundation, which was established in 1980 by the deans of Harvard and then president Derek C. Bok in an effort to improve cultural understanding at Harvard...
...issues in Washington, and Rudenstine is using his knowledge from the study of these topics and his clout as a Harvard president to influence the debate. * Nearly seven years after taking office, Rudenstine has replaced the last vestiges of the administration left by his predecessor, Derek C. Bok, and implemented many of his initial goals through a maniacal devotion to the capital campaign. Again the time has come to plan, and with characteristically subtle insistency rather than the pontification of his predecessor, Rudenstine's vision comes into focus...
When it comes to using the clout of a Harvard president to sway public policy, Rudenstine's critics have often said he is no Derek Bok, who seemed to spend more time in Congressional chambers than Massachusetts halls...