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When I returned to Harvard this year as a 2007 Spring Fellow at the Institute of Politics, I felt a little like Rip Van Winkle awakening. I was older, but at first glance Harvard seemed exactly the same: Derek C. Bok was President; Professor Michael J. Sandel, the Bass Professor of Government, was teaching Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” to capacity crowds; the smart, serious students still wore heavy backpacks, waterproof boots, and puffy down “Michelin Man” coats. There were even disgruntled protesters in Harvard Yard—it all seemed...
...Derek C. Bok on Sept. 1, two months into a one-year term as interim president in which he would repeal Early Action, oversee the approval of the first overhaul of Harvard general education in a generation, and heal a faculty torn by the crises of Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency...
Harvard’s planning for Allston has been informed by the visionary foundation built by Presidents Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers, and Derek C. Bok and will be led in its first fruition by President-elect Drew G. Faust. Each will leave an important legacy in Allston for generations to come...
...When Derek C. Bok came back to Cambridge last spring, he found the four-year long curricular review “on life support,” he said recently...
...public, Pilbeam warned his colleagues of the dangers of getting bogged down in the program’s minutiae. In private, he and Bok met with leading professors to force a consensus, Bok said in a recent interview...