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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.

Following his parents' divorce, he, his mother, brother and sister moved

several times, ultimately to Los Angeles, where he spent much of his childhood.

He graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951), Harvard Law School (J.D., 1954), attended Sciences Po, and George Washington

University (A.M., 1958). Bok taught law at Harvard beginning in 1958 and was selected dean of the

law school there (1968–1971) after Dean Erwin Griswold was appointed Solicitor-General of the

United States. He then served as the university's M. Pusey. In the

mid-1970s Bok negotiated with Radcliffe College president Matina Horner the "non-merger merger" between

Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges that was a major step in the final merger of the

two institutions. Bok recently served as the faculty chair at the Hauser

Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard, taught at

the Harvard

Graduate School of Education, and is the 300th Anniversary

University Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of

Government. Bok's

focus on undergraduate education was evident in his initiating the Harvard

Assessment Seminar that resulted in Richard J. Light's best-selling book, Making

the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds (Harvard University

Press, 2001). This focus has continued in Bok's numerous publications since

retiring as Harvard president. He was the recipient of the 2001 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book, The

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

University Admissions, co-authored with the former President of Princeton University, William G. Bowen. The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and

Learning at Harvard was created during Bok's Harvard presidency, reflecting

Bok's concern for the quality of pedagogy employed at research universities

like Harvard and its peers around the world. The Harvard Extension School instituted

the Derek Bok Public Service

Prizes, an annual Commencement prize for the Harvard Extension

School students who involve in community service or who have a long-standing

records of civic achievement. Bok served as interim president of Harvard

from Lawrence Summers's

resignation on July 1, 2006, to the beginning of Drew Gilpin Faust presidency on July 1, 2007. In 1955,

Bok married Swedish sociologist and philosopher Sissela Bok (née Myrdal) (daughter of the Swedish

economist Gunnar Myrdal and the

politician and diplomat Alva Myrdal, both Nobel

laureates), who received her doctorate from Harvard in 1970.[8] His daughter, Hilary Bok, is a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University. Bok

is the son of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Curtis Bok and Margaret Plummer Bok; the grandson of

Dutch-born Ladies' Home Journal editor Edward Bok and Mary Louise Curtis,

founder of the Curtis Institute of Music;

the cousin of prominent Maine folklorist Gordon Bok; and the great-grandson of Cyrus H. K. Curtis,

founder of the Curtis Publishing Company,

publisher of national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post.