Derek Bok
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| 25th President of Harvard University | |
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| Term | 1971 – 1991 July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007 (acting) |
| Predecessor | Nathan M. Pusey Lawrence Summers |
| Successor | Neil Leon Rudenstine Drew Gilpin Faust |
| Born | March 22, 1930 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 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 (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.
[edit] Works
- Labor and the American Community, 1970
- Living with Nuclear Weapons, In collaboration with Albert Carnesale, Paul Doty, Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel P. Huntington, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Scott D. Sagan, 1983, Harvard University Press
- Beyond the Ivory Tower, 1984, Harvard University Press
- Higher Learning, 1986, Harvard University Press
- Universities and the Future of America, 1990
- The State of the Nation, 1997, Harvard University Press
- The Shape of the River, 1998 (with William G. Bowen)
- The Trouble with Government, 2001, Harvard University Press
- Universities in the Marketplace, 2003
- Our Underachieving Colleges, 2005
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[edit] External links
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Harvard Kennedy School 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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| 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 2006–30 June 2007 |
Succeeded by Drew Gilpin Faust |
