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Derek Bok

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Derek Bok
25th President of Harvard University
Term 19711991
July 1, 2006
June 30, 2007 (acting)
Predecessor Nathan M. Pusey
Lawrence Summers
Successor Neil Leon Rudenstine
Drew Gilpin Faust
Born March 22 1930 (1930-03-22) (age 78)
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Alma mater Stanford University
Harvard Law School
George Washington University
Profession Lawyer

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

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Derek Bok
Academic offices
Preceded by
Nathan M. Pusey
President of Harvard University
1971–1991
Succeeded by
Neil L. Rudenstine
Preceded by
Lawrence H. Summers
President of Harvard University
acting

1 July 200630 June 2007
Succeeded by
Drew Gilpin Faust

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    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 its... more


     
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