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While Harvard’s St. Patrick’s Day revelers downed green beer and kicked little Irish jigs last Friday, Derek C. Bok was huddled in his office sending an e-mail to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) community. He reached out a hand, not to dance, but rather to solicit input on the search for a dean of the Faculty to replace William C. Kirby. At this juncture, we have two primary suggestions for Bok to consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment...
...core curriculum report, the original intent of the requirement was to teach students that it is possible to think systematically about issues like justice, personal responsibility, and friendship. In Phyllis Keller’s book “Getting to the Core,” then-University President Derek C. Bok, addressing an audience of professional school faculty in 1976, said that whether or not ethical standards have declined, “most people seem to think that they have, and this belief...[can] sap the willingness to behave morally to others.” According to Keller, Bok thought...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) last night called on Derek C. Bok to appoint two students to a faculty committee that will advise the incoming interim president in his search for the next dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...soon-to-be interim president of Harvard, Derek C. Bok leads an institution far wealthier than it was 15 years ago, when his previous term ended. In those intervening years, this growth in the endowment has been accompanied by constant increases in tuition, student debt (especially in professional schools), and an unwelcome shift in the values expressed in the name of the University. As America has drifted into the sway of the money culture, so has Harvard...
...middle of his meeting with department chairs last Wednesday, Derek C. Bok joked that he felt a bit like Rip van Winkle...