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First appointed to the post by then-President Derek C. Bok in 1984, Verba will step down at the end of the academic year, now-Interim President Bok announced yesterday. Under Verba, Harvard joined forces with search engine Google to make thousands of books available online for free. He is the longest-serving library chief since Thaddeus Harris, who led Harvard’s libraries from...
...been at these jobs a long long time, and I want to have more time to do more research,” said Verba, the Pforzheimer University professor, who is in his 33rd year at Harvard. “It’s time...
Retirement from his day-to-day University roles doesn’t mean academic retirement for Verba. Ascholar of political and civic participation, he will be working on a book that explores citizen voice...
These credentials are fitting for Verba, known as a pundit and a prankster by colleagues...
Always ready with a quip to break the ice or the tension, Verba has chaired committees on affirmative action, ROTC and the issue of gays in the military, the last curricular review that instituted the Core requirements, and the revision of the Harvard calendar...