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...want to make clear to the Faculty that you’re not presuming to interfere or not presuming to ignore their prerogative,” Bok said in March. “I mean, they’re the ones who have to teach...
...Bok said he avoided imposing his own vision but stressed that the report needed a fresh start...
...Bok, whose book “Our Underachieving Colleges” had become required reading for professors and set the stage for the review, was dissatisfied with its progress. In March of last year, he sat down with a few of the review’s leaders, including English professor Louis Menand, philosophy professor Alison Simmons, and Pilbeam...
...Bok was unhappy that the committee had settled on distribution requirements, criticizing it for its meekness...
...Squirelled away in Loeb House, the onetime president’s mansion now home to the University’s governing boards, Bok made the call, choosing the six professors that would shape the new face of undergraduate education. Though Kirby made the official appointment, it was Bok’s invisible hand—as the interim president acknowledged only recently—that shaped the review’s new beginning...