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...Interim President Derek C. Bok said last fall that the vacant presidency would dampen donations in fiscal year 2007, but Rapier wrote that “fundraising for this year looks very solid and we expect that that will continue into the next year.” She declined to release any numbers for fiscal year...
More than a week after the Undergraduate Council (UC) established an e-mail hotline for student feedback on teaching fellow (TF) performance, TFs, administrators, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning have been reluctant to fully endorse the program. UC president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Bok Center Director James Wilkinson have discussed the possibility of the Center providing training for the undergraduate board charged with synthesizing and acting on student feedback. The Center oversees TF training and reform. In a swift response to a Feb. 14 Crimson op-ed co-authored by Petersen stating...
...clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light on the hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will be more motivated to learn if they see a connection with the kinds of problems, issues and questions they will encounter in later life," says interim president Derek Bok. Harvard isn't the only institution rethinking what and how to teach its students. Yale, Rutgers and the universities of Pennsylvania and Texas have recently made similar changes, and now that Harvard has joined the club, others are likely to follow...
...Over the past year, Hyman has shared some presidential duties with Interim President Derek C. Bok. Hyman has served on roughly half of the University’s committees reviewing candidates for tenure this year, and he has been more actively involved in fundraising than he was under former president Lawrence H. Summers...
Hyman’s increasing influence has culminated this year under Interim President Derek C. Bok, with the two sharing some of the presidential duties...