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...afternoon of June 5, 1980, former University president Derek C. Bok’s Commencement address heralded the University’s progress and “continuing effort” in diversifying the campus...
...absence of a permanent dean or president (and, for several months, the Faculty’s obsession with ousting Summers). But the notion that the departure of two men could leave the process so crippled has little basis in reality. Indeed, if there is anything newly appointed University President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles could shepherd without controversy, it is the curricular review that has been three-plus years in the making and has yielded generally reasonable, if not laudable, proposals. If members of the College community can come together and focus their efforts...
These groups called for the University to take immediate measures to improve campus security and were chafed when the administration did not share their sense of urgency. Then-president Derek C. Bok, rather than making immediate large-scale changes, responded by creating a new standing committee on security, chaired by then-associate dean Thomas A. Dingman...
...College is one thing. Thriving, at least for some black students and women, may be altogether different, a 1982 Harvard report suggested.Two hundred students threatened to storm Mass. Hall on an October day in 1980 to protest the report, written by a special assistant to then-University president Derek C. Bok. The report suggested that black students and women at the University perform poorer academically than their test scores would predict.The assistant, Robert E. Klitgaard ’68, also suggested in his findings that affirmative action might not be working, that it’s unclear whether diversity benefits...
...Hundreds of well-wishers showed up to fill the pews of Memorial Church and listened to an array of speakers as well-known as Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith ’74 spoke first, calling his father “my mentor, my coach, my critic, and my friend.” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who spoke towards the end of the service, also touched on Galbraith?...