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...single universal truth about the community remains unaffected: that the University’s foremost priority must remain the improvement of the undergraduate experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure will bring many changes, but the place of undergraduates in the University will be unaltered. As Derek C. Bok resumes his role in Mass. Hall, this undergraduate-prioritizing leader (who championed the cause of undergraduate pedagogy in the 1970s and 1980s) will replace another (who called Harvard College “the very heart of the university” in his 2001 inaugural address).And if undergraduate issues...
Harvard’s next interim president, Derek C. Bok, who oversaw the implementation of the current Core Curriculum during his first term as the University’s chief, said in an e-mail Friday that he will not impose his ideas for the curricular review on the Faculty...
...faculty in general were very anti-canon and all that stuff, so they had to produce something that didn’t look like an old-fashioned ‘Great Books’ course,” he said, “I would imagine that Derek would have a different take on what is necessary right...
...incoming interim President Derek C. Bok said he did not find out until a few days before the official announcement that he would be temporarily returning to Mass. Hall...
...last week in a letter announcing his resignation. Summers' view that he had inherited a university with urgent problems is in part a way of justifying the highly undiplomatic way he conducted himself as president, but he's hardly alone in his view. His temporary successor, former Harvard president Derek Bok, is about as different from Summers as it is possible to get. He's one of the world's least gaffe-prone people and a staunchly mainstream liberal, where Summers is liberal in a way that makes the conservatives on the faculty swoon. But Bok seems equally gloomy about...