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...response to “UC Slates Curricular Review Meeting” (news, Feb. 27), I would suggest that Harvard’s interim president adopt a simple interim solution to reform of the core curriculum: vastly expand the number of departmental courses that count towards the core requirements...
...likely criticism of this approach is that it reduces the core to a distribution requirement. But given that the current core admittedly does not work, the faculty has no consensus on reform, and a distribution requirement is one likely outcome of the current curriculum review, it is a reasonable interim solution...
...invitation I could conscientiously refuse.” Summers, who will step down from his post on June 30, had informed the Corporation of his intention to resign just three days earlier, leaving the board’s five members with little time to find an interim replacement. Calls to members of the Harvard Corporation last night were not returned. Bok has maintained a constant presence at Harvard since he left the presidency in 1991, serving as faculty chair of the Kennedy School of Government’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations and as a University professor. Last month...
...alum who attended Harvard in the 1970s, I must confess to have gotten a chuckle from some of the descriptions of Derek Bok I’ve read over the past week. Ever since it was announced that Bok would return as interim president, he’s been heralded as a beloved and “universally trusted” figure, to cite one Crimson pullquote. Yet what I remember is that, in our day, we undergrads viewed him as a quintessential “suit”—a remote, conflict-averse administrator who many students...
...should be possible for the University as a whole to express an opinion rather than be limited to the FAS,” Lal said.But it might not be possible in the near term. As the University prepares to enter a period of transition under Interim President Derek C. Bok, the creation of such a body most likely will have to wait. Kellerman said that “nothing can or should be, in my view, implemented of major consequence to the governance of the University during the next year or so.” But, she added...