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Just one month after asking the Harvard community for input on overhauling Harvard's calendar, Interim President Derek C. Bok said he will announce his decision on possible reform this week...
Harvard has extended a tenured professorship to hip hop expert Marcyliena Morgan, an offer denied three years ago under the presidency of Lawrence H. Summers. Members of the Department of African and African American Studies said yesterday that an ad hoc committee and Interim University President Derek C. Bok approved the case about a week ago and a formal job offer was extended to Morgan, currently the executive director of Stanford University’s Hiphop Archive. It is not known whether Morgan has accepted the offer, and she could not be reached for comment...
...didn’t really affect my decanal routine. The past several weeks have become a bit more complicated, however, and today I’ve begun a rather more aggressive treatment.” At the time, Knowles said he would work from home, and Interim University President Derek C. Bok told his colleagues at a Faculty meeting that day that Knowles would return “within a few days.” “As Christopher Robin put on his door for Winnie-the-Pooh to read,” Knowles wrote to professors...
...course—debate. A keynote address on Friday by Lamont University Professor Amartya Sen, a former fellow at the center, and two panels on ethics drew prominent guests and speakers alike, including former Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, and University President Derek C. Bok, who was a driving force behind the center’s creation in the 1980s. After presiding over a vigorous question-and-answer session with Sen and other panelists, the center’s outgoing director, Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, expressed disappointment that the panel...
Works Cited Bok, Derek C. Calreform@camail.harvard.edu. “Calendar Reform.” 2 May 2007. Blanket e-mail...