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	Derek Bok Summary
		Derek Curtis Bok was born March 22, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Curtis and Margaret Plummer Bok.
		Bok became a full professor in 1961 and was named to succeed Erwin Griswald as dean of the Harvard law school in 1968.
		Bok currently serves as the Faculty Chair at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations [1] at Harvard and continues to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
	www.bookrags.com /Derek_Bok (1214 words)

	Derek Bok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		His 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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Bok (213 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education - Derek ...
		Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values.
		Bok (former president of Harvard; The Trouble with Government) first explores the roots of commercialism in higher education, then details the three areas where this practice is found on campus: athletics, scientific research, and education.
		Bok realizes that there are times when allowing a business to provide funding for research or clothing for an athletic team is critical to a particular college's survival, but the trend of marketing various aspects of higher education is becoming more prevalent.
	btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?endeca=1&btob=Y&ean=9780691114125 (984 words)

	ALA \| Bok book review
		The purpose of Bok’s Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education is to investigate the history of academic connections to commerce, assess the consequences of such alliances, and examine their potential impact.
		Bok’s charges are not vague hints; he cites prestigious institutions, names researchers whose careers were jeopardized or damaged by threats and personal attacks, and provides many poignant details.
		Bok maintains clearly and persuasively that if responsible officers in higher education fail to manage business connections aggressively, the goals of higher education will continue to be in jeopardy.
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/crl2004/backjan2004/bokbookreview.htm (1774 words)

	Derek Bok stepping down as head of Common Cause - Boston.com
		Derek Bok on Monday advised members of Common Cause, a private government accountability watchdog group, that he has decided to step down after eight years as its chair.
		Bok noted that in recent years the group has expanded into legislative redistricting and media ownership issues "and we have reached out to forge alliances with a wide array of partners."
		Bok was president of Harvard during 1970-1991 and before that had been dean of Harvard Law School.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/13/derek_bok_stepping_down_as_head_of_common_cause (279 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bok devotes much effort to an attempt to show that growing income inequality is made possible by the lack of effective competition.
		Bok is persuasive, for instance, in his review of evidence that recent merit pay initiatives in government and in the public schools have been dismal failures.
		Bok is persuasive that the harshly anti-government rhetoric of recent years has made it needlessly difficult to recruit and retain the competent public servants we so desperately need.
	www.prospect.org /print-friendly/print/V5/17/frank-r.html (4868 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: The Essence of Derek Bok
		We told Bok that we understood the administration was within its legal rights to wage an anti-union campaign; we were asking the administration to hold itself to a higher standard.
		Yet Bok's style is far more insidious than Silber's Despite his policies, he is still associated with liberalism, with democratic values, and with compassion--an image he shrewdly manages to preserve at the expense of the reputations of his underlings.
		When Bok was appointed president 18 years ago, he was a great liberal reformer, poised to restore order and democracy to the community after the turbulent years of Nathan M. Pusey '28.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=156676 (743 words)

	The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page
		Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University, has written a fascinating and courageous book that dares to suggest that there is something wrong with this kind of disparity.
		Bok documents the extraordinary differences in earnings growth among six professions that are or ought to be those of the best and brightest.
		Bok is well aware that he will be the subject of vitriolic attacks, some of which will doubtless dismiss “The Cost of Talent” as a sour-grapes complaint that businessmen earn too much compared with university presidents.
	www.pkarchive.org /economy/Bok.html (1068 words)

	EDUCATION REVIEW
		Even though he is a faculty member, Bok’s experience as a lawyer, administrator, and celebrity places him in the management community where he recognizes that the chief responsibility of university presidents is to find “the funds their institutions need to survive and prosper.
		Bok nominates the proto-Marxist Thorstein Veblen as the spokesman of the traditional view that the university is the sum of faculty interests, which are apparently only impeded by the management whims of university administrators.
		Bok’s concerns for life science research and the influence of pharmaceutical companies on research are recognizable as a lawyer’s concern for the details of a contract.
	edrev.asu.edu /reviews/rev269.htm (3870 words)

	Derek Bok on Gore's Campaign Finance Plan
		Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University and professor based at the Kennedy School, serves as Chairman of the Board of Common Cause, a public interest group that has long advocated for campaign finance reform.
		Bok is also working on a book about the successes and shortcomings of American society.
		Bok: The big question mark in this proposal is whether there is sufficient incentive to induce individuals and organizations to contribute anything close to the 7 billion dollars that the Vice President anticipates.
	www.ksg.harvard.edu /news/backup/experts/bok_gore_campaign_finance_qa.htm (359 words)

	The Cost Of Talent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Derek Bok, past President of Harvard University, has dedicated his first year of retirement to pondering the discrepancies between paychecks.
		Bok suggests that one reason for this disparity is that talented people who might have gone into any of the last three "helping" professions were instead lured into one of the first three professions.
		Bok believes that this siphoning off of the best talent from education and government is socially perilous.
	mtprof.msun.edu /Win1994/LArev.html (881 words)

	20th WCP: Paideia: Moral Education in the University?
		Bok insists that America's leading colleges and universities ought to recommit themselves to moral education as one of their central tasks.
		Bok reminds us that a renewed interest in practical ethics emerged in the late 60's and continues today, but that this new interest does not much resemble the practice of moral education in the university in the 19th century.
		Bok mentions this episode in the history of twentieth century ethics as the study of ethics falling "under the sway of academic standards that gradually become more theoretical and abstract.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/MPsy/MPsyBeat.htm (5024 words)

	Center for Equal Opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bowen and Bok conclude that students who attended an SEL 2 school were more likely (1) to graduate, (2) to feel very satisfied with their college experience, (3) to gain a postgraduate degree and (4) to earn a higher occupational income than students who attended an SEL 3 school.
		Bowen and Bok could reply that the marginal interracial educational benefit of additional fl students is greater for schools that start with an enrollment of 3% rather than 7%.
		Bowen and Bok fear a dangerous increase in racial tensions if by that time "the vast majority of top jobs in government, business and the professions continue to he held by whites, while one-third of the population is composed of fls and Hispanics who are largely relegated to less remunerative, less influential positions" (p.
	www.ceousa.org /crawford.html (8697 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Trouble with Government by Derek Bok
		After investigating these complaints and determining that many are justified, Derek Bok seeks to determine the main reasons for the failings and frustrations associated with government.
		Bok goes on to explore the reasons for these fundamental weaknesses and to discuss popular remedies such as term limits, devolution, "reinventing" government, and campaign finance reform.
		Derek C. Bok is President Emeritus and Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/BOKTRO.html (266 words)

	The Delaware State Bar Association
		Much of what Bok has to say is not especially new, and, given the fairly ambitious scope of the book, he does not often dwell on fine details.
		Bok is a big supporter of campaign finance reform, although he recognizes the law of unintended consequences.
		Much of Bok's proposed fixes represent policy choices with which a reader may readily disagree, but greater participation in government by the people is one thing upon which all should agree.
	www.dsba.org /AssocPubs/InRe/dec01book.htm (827 words)

	book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Derek Bok, the former president of Harvard University, has written an important and timely book which should be required reading for university faculty and administrators.
		Bok defines commercialization as "efforts within the university to make a profit from teaching, research and other campus activities".
		Bok points to intercollegiate athletics as the paradigm for the pitfalls of commercialization.
	www.inform.umd.edu /News/FV/2003-10/book (737 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Bok Center fetes birthday
		Increased commitment to teaching is a national trend, and the Bok Center, one of the oldest such resources in the country, has spawned many imitators, of which its founders are justifiably proud.
		Bok, president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, admitted that the center has "wildly exceeded any expectations I may have had for it."
		Bok recalled the center's birth in 1976, when "the climate for improving teaching was a good bit chillier," he said.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/10.25/09-bokcenter.html (810 words)

	Bok and Bowen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bok was dean of the Law School from 1968 to 1971.
		Indeed, Presidents Bowen and Bok provide methodologically fascinating analyses of the worklives and private lives of graduates in the Class of 1976, in their late 30s when the data was gathered.
		Bowen and Bok show how much of the laboring oar for these vital activities is carried by graduates of selective colleges, and that fl matriculants were even more active than their white classmates.
	www.law.harvard.edu /alumni/bulletin/backissues/spring99/article4.html (1552 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Fairness and Openess
		While Joan Bok took a lot of flak for writing the attack on three alumni running for that governing body on a pro-divestment platform, Derek Bok never revealed that he was the one who asked her to write it.
		Along these lines, it is additionally disconcerting that Derek Bok, already having abused his power as president, was not forthcoming in admitting his involvement in the matter.
		Joan Bok also refused to explicate her role in the matter, admitting that Derek Bok had asked her to write the letter only after she told angry Overseers in a closed meeting.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=142448 (754 words)

	Center for Equal Opportunity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Bowen and Bok claim that they were given the data only with the understanding that individual institutions would not be identified as it is a "restricted access data base." (P.xxviii) This limits the authors to presenting their analysis at an extremely high level of aggregation, thus ignoring all individual differences among these colleges and universities.
		Even Bowen and Bok say that they were prohibited from naming the five colleges and universities that provided them with relatively complete admissions data-and carried this policy over to not discussing individual results for the remainder of their study (which used the full sample of 28 schools).
		Bowen and Bok conclude from their data that "a drop in the share of fl enrollment from, say, 8 percent to 4 percent could be expected to reduce the percentage of white matriculants who knew well two or more fl students from 61 percent to 53 percent." (Pp.
	www.ceousa.org /bok.html (14056 words)

	Grawemeyer Award- Education Current Winner
		Bowen and Bok tackled issues such as drop-out rates and demoralization of minority students attending institutions under selective admissions guidelines, the effect selective admissions has on diversity and racial tension, and alternatives to race-sensitive admissions.
		Bok has written four books on higher education, including "Beyond the Ivory Tower," "Higher Learning" and "Universities and the Future of America." He serves on the boards of overseers for the Curtis Institute of Music, The World Resources Institute and Common Cause.
		Bok's current research interests include the state of higher education and a project sponsored by several foundations on the adequacy of the U.S. government in coping with the nation's domestic problems.
	www.grawemeyer.org /education/previous/01.htm (687 words)

	Bait and switch - A review of Derek Bok's The Trouble with Government [Free Republic]
		Bok begins his exercise by looking at the usual suspects: politicians, the media and special interests.
		The real problem, writes Bok, is that a majority of Americans feel disconnected from their government and sometimes for spurious reasons.
		Although Bok is hardly the first person to bemoan the apathy of the average American when it comes to being civically involved, he makes a passionate case that unless citizens become more involved, the future of the United States is in grave danger.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b54745770be.htm (1006 words)

	NACUBO \| What Price Profit?
		A conversation with former Harvard University president Derek Bok about evaluating entrepreneurial ideas in light of their impact on academic values.
		Bok’s observations are rooted in more than 50 years of experience in the higher education field.
		Bok’s pre-sentation will be the final general session on Tuesday, July 20, from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m.
	www.nacubo.org /x4100.xml?ss=pf (2013 words)

	Amazon.com: The Shape of the River: Books: Glenn C. Loury,William G. Bowen,Derek Bok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This is precisely the kind of information former university presidents Bowen and Bok attempt to provide, by examining the admissions policies of several (unnamed) institutions and following the fortunes of their minority graduates over a period of years.
		Bowen and Bok argue a traditional progressive line of thought: that the most prestigious institutions have a responsibility to build a better society and that part of this mission is achieved by helping downtrodden segments of society to better themselves.
		Bok and Bowen have basically accepted the very notion that fls are inferior to whites and they will never succeed without the white man support.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0691050198?v=glance (3063 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Bok earns Grawemeyer Award in Education
		Derek Bok, president of the University from 1971 through 1991, and William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, have won the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for their book "The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions."
		With an emphasis on statistics and analysis and a de-emphasis of emotional arguments, Bok and Bowen offer the reader an informed vantage from which to assess policy decisions in the hotly contested arena of admissions policies.
		Bok, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, is a 1951 graduate of Stanford University.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2000/12.14/05-bok.html (293 words)

	Derek Bok's Profile at Harvard University
		Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Professor, University President Emeritus, and Faculty Chair of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.
		He has been a lawyer and Professor of Law, Dean of the Law School, and President of Harvard University.
		Derek Bok welcomes media inquiries on the following subjects.
	ksgfaculty.harvard.edu /Derek_Bok (236 words)

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