Derek Curtis Bok (born 1930) served as dean of the Harvard Law School until he was named president of Harvard University in 1970. In this position he helped broaden the university's mission in its relationship to the larger community while retaining...

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 493 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-674-00448-5 Publication Date: 2001 Former Harvard president Derek Bok has set for himself two daunting tasks: determining why America's government has not performed more capably, and deciding how it might perform better. Bok's...

PRESIDENT Derek Bok of Harvard is stepping down after a quiet incumbency of 19 years. Quiet is what the Harvard Corporation wanted from Bok. His predecessor, Nathan Pusey, retired after the tumultuous Vietnam years. A learned Episcopalian gentleman, President Pusey was ill-suited to...

A Harvard University professor who accused the school of gender discrimination has withdrawn her resignation, but said Thursday that the school's landscape architecture department remains a bastion of sexism.Martha Schwartz, 56, complained that the department has never had a tenured female professor in its 106...

Harvard University plans to expand across the Charles River from its Cambridge campus and to build new academic buildings, student housing and a public square in a project that is expected to cost several billion dollars and take 50 years to complete.The university released its...