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...interim president, Derek C. Bok will face pressure from students who want Harvard to cut its ties to an oppressive African regime. For Bok, it may seem like déjà vu.When Bok was at Harvard’s helm in the late 1970s, the campus was consumed by a controversy over the University’s financial links to apartheid-era South Africa.Bok, who returns to Mass. Hall on July 1, took a skeptical stance toward divestment demands.In open letters to the Harvard community, Bok wrote that he believed divestment was unlikely to help end apartheid, and might...
...what we’ve learned about this governance crisis and what it tells us about how we ought to look to the future,” Mendelsohn said.AN EMPOWERED COUNCILFaculty Council members said that they are reaching out to members of the Corporation and incoming interim University President Derek C. Bok. “We are asking, ‘how can we contribute in this interim period?’” Ulrich said of the Council.“We’ve been empowered to conduct some preliminary discussions with Derek Bok to see what...
...meetings and conversations at which he delineated the line between free speech and personal abuse. Freedman was willing to confront a firestorm, and, because of his timing, conviction, and eloquence, he succeeded in marginalizing the Review.Freedman is not a “namby-pamby.” Nor was Derek C. Bok, an articulate leader of this University and of American higher education for 20 years. Other admirable leaders in the recent past include Vartan Gregorian at Brown University, William G. Bowen at Princeton University, Nannerl O. Keohane at Duke University, and Charles M. Vest at MIT. Nor is there...
...School deanship was a stepping stone to the presidency before. The once-and-future Harvard chief Derek C. Bok led the Law School from...
...Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991, will serve as interim president effective July 1, the University announced...