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...Derek C. Bok has revived the president’s annual report, assessing his year in Harvard’s highest office and looking at the University’s future in a 34-page letter set to be released this morning. The “President’s Report,” as it is officially titled, had been neglected for over a decade, last appearing when former President Neil L. Rudenstine released a report covering 1993 to 1995 that focused on diversity at Harvard. Bok said in an interview last week that he had no grand plans...
...Gates, whose two years as a Harvard undergraduate fell within Interim President Derek C. Bok’s first term, was awarded an honorary degree by the seasoned University leader today...
When I returned to Harvard this year as a 2007 Spring Fellow at the Institute of Politics, I felt a little like Rip Van Winkle awakening. I was older, but at first glance Harvard seemed exactly the same: Derek C. Bok was President; Professor Michael J. Sandel, the Bass Professor of Government, was teaching Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice” to capacity crowds; the smart, serious students still wore heavy backpacks, waterproof boots, and puffy down “Michelin Man” coats. There were even disgruntled protesters in Harvard Yard—it all seemed...
...Derek C. Bok on Sept. 1, two months into a one-year term as interim president in which he would repeal Early Action, oversee the approval of the first overhaul of Harvard general education in a generation, and heal a faculty torn by the crises of Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency...
Harvard’s planning for Allston has been informed by the visionary foundation built by Presidents Neil L. Rudenstine, Lawrence H. Summers, and Derek C. Bok and will be led in its first fruition by President-elect Drew G. Faust. Each will leave an important legacy in Allston for generations to come...