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...leadership. The University was already deeply fragmented into autonomous faculties and departments. But Bok created another layer; he erected a wall of people to take care of Harvard's time-consuming administrative and functional details. While there were only a few special assistants to protect former president Nathan M. Pusey '28 from the bureaucratic flood, Bok created four vice-presidents, a general counsel, and an expanded team of special assistants to handle his administrative chores. At the time of his inaugural, Bok said he wanted to fill all those new positions rapidly and then pay attention to educational concerns...
...after Bok finally has the chance to establish himself as the dominant educational leader on campus, as were his predecessors before Pusey, his protective wall is starting to crumble. Recent announcements of future resignations by faculty deans and the likely departure of at least one of his four vice presidents, plus a host of lesser changes, threaten to force Bok back into his managerial role...
Hosken was determined to make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more...
Final costs for the Nathan M. Pusey Library may exceed the proposed budget by as much as $25,000, and last minute touch-ups may delay the library's planned February 9 opening, a Harvard official said yesterday...
President Bok, in a last-ditch attempt to win the Kennedy Library for Harvard, offers to trade the new Pusey Library for it. In a letter to UMass President Robert Wood, Bok writes: "Any university can do the easy and popular thing, establishing a John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library. But only a really interesting school would think of naming a library after Nathan Marsh Pusey...