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...largely depends on mentors—minority and female members of the faculty from whom students can learn.“I think women wanted to have people who could inspire them,” she says.BACK TO BOKIn the 1998 book “The Shape of the River?? that Bok co-wrote with former Princeton University president William G. Bowen, Bok presents some factors that could be responsible for the supposed decline in expected academic performance.The book suggests that pre-college influences such as the rigor of a student’s educational background...
Start the trail at the end of K St. in Georgetown, following the river??s humid but shady banks. Take an old rail bridge over the C&O canal and towpath (which, for the more adventurous, goes the 184.5 miles to John Brown’s stakeout, Harper’s Ferry W.Va.). After the DC/Maryland line, cut behind the backyards of suburban DC’s swankier ’hoods, and you’ll quickly find yourself at a Honda dealership smack dab in the middle of Bethesda...
Constructed in 1971, the concrete block structure—distinctly lacking a view of the river??contrasts sharply with the crisp brick and white finish of Harvard Business School, located just next door...
...former chair of the economics department at Boston University (BU), Miron resigned from his tenured position across the Charles to take a non-tenured visiting professorship on this side of the river??with no guarantee of a permanent post...
...eventually got the university on the right side of the divestiture issue (embracing the “Sullivan principles”), undergraduate education (rolling out the Core Curriculum), and affirmative action (on which he later co-authored a wise and supportive book, “The Shape of the River??). He tripled the endowment, built the Kennedy School, and made Harvard more international than ever, in complexion and outlook. And by cutting such an inoffensive, middle-of-the road profile, he helped encourage a culture of intellectual and political diversity that not only served a wide spectrum...