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...years ago, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences running an operating deficit, the Corporation wanted a fundraiser. And so, the capital campaign became the chief duty of President Neil L. Rudenstine. Derek C. Bok, Rudenstine’s predecessor, was charged at the outset with healing a wounded campus fragmented by the turbulent protest years of 1968-69. And with the selection of Nathan M. Pusey ’28 in 1953, Harvard consciously sought a president who would spend less time in the national spotlight, while defending the University from McCarthy-era attacks...
...late 19th century Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, made some controversial innovations that established the paradigm for the modern university and ensured that this particular school would not just be the oldest in America. It would be the best. Even President Rudenstine’s predecessor, Derek Bok, managed to reshape some important parts of Harvard—he founded the Kennedy School, for example—in a significant fashion. But perhaps this place is now so large that it requires a corporate manager of sorts at its top. Jeremy Knowles, the dean of the Faculty of Arts...
...plans for Allston began in the late 1980s under president Derek Bok, when Harvard quietly began to buy up Allston land surrounding the HBS campus...
Rudenstine will also be remembered for his part in the secret Allston land purchases that infuriated the surrounding communities. While Rudenstine finalized the deal that began during the administration of Derek C. Bok, he recently admitted that Harvard should have handled the issue differently. But Harvard’s relations with the surrounding communities have remained tense since the land-buying fiasco. The city of Cambridge has had a particularly antagonistic relationship with the University, with residents angry about development, payments in lieu of taxes and wage issues. And given the impending purchase of a major commercial office building...
...workshop, sponsored by the Instructional Computing Group (ICG) and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, is being held in the Science Center. It began on Monday and will come to an end today...