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Derek Bok

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 21 1930
Derek Curtis Bok 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 , Harvard Law School , and George Washington University . He taught law at Harvard from 1958, where he served as dean of the law school and then as university president . 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 and the Harvard Kennedy School.

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 , is also affiliated with Harvard, where she received her doctorate in 1970. His daughter, Hilary Bok, is a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Derek Bok

3.6/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 21 1930
Derek Curtis Bok 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 , Harvard Law School , and George Washington University . He taught law at Harvard from 1958, where he served as dean of the law school and then as university president . 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 and the Harvard Kennedy School.

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 , is also affiliated with Harvard, where she received her doctorate in 1970. His daughter, Hilary Bok, is a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Books from Derek Bok

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being

3.4/5 ( ratings)

The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Higher Expectations: Can Colleges Teach Students What They Need to Know in the 21st Century?

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Living with Nuclear Weapons

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Universities and the Future of America

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The Trouble with Government

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (The William G. Bowen Series)

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Más Allá de la Torre de Marfil: Responsabilidad Social de la Universidad Moderna (Colección de Educación Superior)

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Beyond the Ivory Tower: Social Responsibilities of the Modern University

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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3.3/5 ( ratings)

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3.3/5 ( ratings)

Bok Tower Gardens: America's Taj Mahal

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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3.3/5 ( ratings)

The State of the Nation

3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Political Economy of Inequality

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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3.3/5 ( ratings)

The Cost of Talent: How Executives And Professionals Are Paid And How It Affects America

3.3/5 ( ratings)
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