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...next president should also address concerns about education and act both as a peer and leader to faculty—a “primus inter pares,” as Interim University President Derek C. Bok said. In order to maintain Harvard’s academic reputation, the new president must remain committed to undergraduates. Students come here to learn from the leaders in their fields, not to be the secondary concerns of preoccupied professors. It is important to continue work on teaching initiatives within the curricular review, but the new president should go further and introduce tenure...
...Hasina's accusation has been backed by diplomats such as U.S. ambassador Patricia A. Butenis, who said last month that the interim body "has not always conducted itself neutrally, and the nation has suffered as a result." But the Awami League too must take some of the blame for the unfolding crisis. Western diplomats in Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital, say that the party's stubborn refusal to compromise on any of its demands and its early calls to take the fight to the streets - riots in late October set the tone for much that has followed - made confrontation inevitable. "Tactically...
...Interim President Derek C. Bok, who has written widely on divestiture, said the iShares investments predated his tenure as president, which began July 1. His spokesman, John D. Longbrake, said the school declines to comment on individual investments...
Hyman, 54, who was deputy to ousted Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers and continues to serve as provost under Interim President Derek C. Bok, is not seen as a likely choice by some members of the committee, according to one of the sources...
...including former University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray and former Princeton President William G. Bowen, according to one of the sources. Gray, who also served on the Harvard Corporation from 1997 to 2005, now chairs the trustee board at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, where Cech is president. Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles is also a trustee there...