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Only last spring, Skocpol’s candidacy seemed promising when she rose to the top of Interim President Derek C. Bok’s list of potential candidates to lead Harvard’s flagship school, according to the sources. But when Bok floated Skocpol’s candidacy among faculty members and top administrators, he encountered strong resistance that forced him to reconsider, the individuals said...
...Skocpol emerged as one of his most outspoken critics. Five months later, Skocpol was named to the top post at the graduate school, replacing anthropologist Peter T. Ellison, who resigned after persistent disputes with Summers. Skocpol is only the second woman to lead GSAS. Interim University President Derek C. Bok praised Skocpol’s work over the past two years.“Again and again, she has gone beyond the strict requirements of her position to make outstanding contributions to the quality of teaching and other important activities of the university,” Bok said...
...indicate that the University is not interested in Adolphson’s field. “The message this decision sends to academia as a whole is that Harvard doesn’t value history before contact with the West,” Kurashige said. Interim President Derek C. Bok, whose office holds the final say on University tenure decisions, declined to comment yesterday on Adolphson’s case. Bok has said previously that publicly discussing tenure decisions would be “unpleasant” for the candidate and “unfair” to the professors...
...Bok declined to comment on the situation, writing in an e-mailed statement that “repeating in public the reasons for not coming to a favorable conclusion would be unpleasant for the candidate and unfair to those participating in the proceeding who testified and deliberated in confidence...
...department in October 2005. Ordinarily the recommendation would have been reviewed within an academic year by an ad hoc committee composed of both Harvard professors outside the candidate’s department and professors from universities around the country within the same discipline. Instead the committee, presided over by Bok, met this March—postponing the decision whether to grant Kaufman tenure by nearly one year...