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...Interim President Derek C. Bok said that he and the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, who approved the change Monday morning, had concluded in recent months that “somebody had to take the lead” in eliminating early admission...
...binding “early decision” process with Harvard’s non-binding “early action.” It is Harvard’s hope, and ours too, that moving to single-stage admissions will increase the diversity of the student body. As interim University President Derek C. Bok said yesterday, early admissions “advantage[s] the advantaged” because the pool of early applicants is disproportionately affluent and white. Most strong minority and low-income applicants apply in January. Their secondary schools, where the advisee-to-councilor ratio is astronomical...
...join them. “Mr. Epstein’s gift is funding important research using mathematics to study areas such as evolutionary theory, viruses, and cancers,” a Harvard spokesman said yesterday. “The University is not considering returning this gift.” Interim President Derek C. Bok, who served as University president from 1971 to 1991, wrote in an e-mail that he was unfamiliar with the specific details of Epstein’s donation, but stands by his 1979 open letter to the Harvard community stating his views of the ethics...
...Interim President Derek C. Bok said in May that he expects to see a temporary drop in gift-giving over the coming year as donors wait for a permanent president to take office...
...Interim President Derek C. Bok said that he and the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, who approved the change yesterday morning, had concluded in recent months that “somebody had to take the lead” in eliminating early admission...