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...Keohane joined the Corporation in July 2005, filling not only former University of Chicago president Hanna H. Gray’s seat on the seven-person governing body but also Gray’s intellectual niche, according to Interim President Derek C. Bok...
...wouldn’t want to have the Corporation dominated by former college presidents,” Bok says, “but to have one person who has been there and kind of understands the problems that universities go through, and the academic issues, is a big help...
...really kind of a plucky appointment on our part, reaching out to someone like that,” Bok says of Keohane. “We should count ourselves very lucky that she was willing to serve...
Interim University President Derek C. Bok announced today that Harvard’s governing boards had approved his recommendation to create a reformed, University-wide calendar.The new calendar configuration will be modeled on a proposal—initially advanced by a 2003–2004 committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53—to begin classes shortly after Labor Day, to move fall exams before winter break, and to end the academic year in May.Implementation of the changes is set for the 2009-2010 academic year, to give Harvard’s 11 schools...
...watched in the years that followed, when the hero of that movement, Nelson Mandela, in fact turned out to be one of the few great giants of the twentieth century. (It’s still embarrassing to remember that the wise men of the College, President Derek C. Bok chief among them, placed their bets instead on the avaricious tribal leader Mangosothu Buthelezi.) When Mandela was finally freed, one of his first trips abroad was to visit the American universities to thank those who had worked for divestiture. I’m not given to much sentimentality about the best...