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...Following Summers’ resignation, Keohane was briefly considered for the interim presidency, but she took herself out of the running. Instead, she and the Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton, travelled in person to Sarasota, Fla. to convince Bok to come out of retirement. Still, just days after Summers’ resignation, Keohane’s name was being added to lists of possible permanent presidents...
...Keohane describes Faust as thoughtful and judicious in almost the exact language that Bok and Overholser use to describe Keohane, and her words suggest that perhaps Keohane sees a little bit of herself in Harvard’s next leader...
...Bok says that Keohane “asks a lot of questions,” and that she seems ever-willing to learn on the job, even asking undergraduate reporters whether she can best reach out to students by eating in dining halls and going to campus events or by setting up more formal points of contact...
When Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 wanted to expedite student requests for a new academic calendar this year, he sent a letter to Interim President Derek C. Bok demanding a meeting with the seven-member Harvard Corporation, the University’s reclusive top governing board. (The request was denied...
...Petersen went on to organize a referendum in which 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduates participating called for the calendar to be changed. Two weeks later, Interim President Derek C. Bok e-mailed the Harvard community to reopen a University-wide conversation on the calendar. A decision on the matter was expected Commencement week...