Derek Bok

Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University. Bok was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954), and George Washington University (A.M., 1958). He taught law at Harvard from 1958, where he served as dean of the law school (1968–1971) and then as university president (1971–1991). Bok currently serves as the Faculty Chair at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard and continues to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.^[1] After 15 years away from the Harvard presidency, Bok returned to lead the university on an interim basis after Lawrence Summers's resignation took effect on July 1, 2006. He was succeeded by Drew Gilpin Faust on July 1, 2007. Bok's wife, the sociologist and philosopher Sissela Bok, née Myrdal (daughter of the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and the politician and diplomat Alva Myrdal, both Nobel laureates), is also affiliated with Harvard, where she received her doctorate in 1970. His daughter, Hilary Bok, is a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Works

• Labor and the American Community, 1970
• Beyond the Ivory Tower, 1984
• Higher Learning, 1986
• Universities and the Future of America, 1990
• The State of the Nation, 1997
• The Shape of the River, 1998 (with William G. Bowen)
• The Trouble with Government, 2001
• Universities in the Marketplace, 2003
• Our Underachieving Colleges, 2005

References

External links

• Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Derek Bok's current Faculty Profile
• Association of American Colleges and Universities | National Leadership Council for Liberal Education
• Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

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