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...when he was a student at Harvard, where he was a Visual and Environmental Studies concentrator. As a cartoonist for both The Crimson and the Harvard Independent, he drew his first cartoon depicting the lack of student space with a caricature of then-University President (and now Interim President) Derek C. Bok shoving students into a telephone booth...
...attempt to reconnect a college education with a post-college life. The report suggests that it is time to take learning out of a vacuum, an idea that’s almost 100 years in the (re-)making.LEARNING BY DOINGWhile the new proposal explicitly references the influence of interim University President Derek C. Bok’s “Our Underachieving Colleges” and 2006’s “Excellence Without A Soul: How A Great University Forgot Education”—an expose by former dean of the College and Gordon McKay Professor...
...have already acknowledged responsibility for the impact of our consumption, investment, and contracting policies. From fair trade to divestment, from a living wage to a sustainable Allston, there is a tradition and a belief that Harvard should not allow financial strategies to undermine human rights or basic dignity. As interim University President Derek C. Bok himself noted just last week at a student forum, “Universities are simply not a business. Their central focus is not profit and loss...
After a four-and-a-half-year vacancy, the Fletcher University professorship will be filled by Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., Interim President Derek Bok announced yesterday.Gates joins a prestigious group of 20 other faculty who are University professors.“It’s without a doubt the greatest honor I’ve ever received, and I’m deeply humbled by President Bok’s generosity,” said Gates, who directs the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.“This...
...Interim President Derek C. Bok has been preparing for Altshuler’s departure since at least September, according to an individual close to the interim president. But when asked by The Crimson earlier this month if he had plans to resign, Altshuler replied: “I have not made any such decision. Your sources, I’m afraid, are not reliable...