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style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">25th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Harvard_University" title="President of Harvard University">President of Harvard University</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />Acting<br />July 1, 2006 – June 30, 2007</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Summers" title="Lawrence Summers">Lawrence Summers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Drew_Gilpin_Faust" title="Drew Gilpin Faust">Drew Gilpin Faust</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1971–1991</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nathan_M._Pusey" class="mw-redirect" title="Nathan M. Pusey">Nathan M. Pusey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Neil_Leon_Rudenstine" class="mw-redirect" title="Neil Leon Rudenstine">Neil Leon Rudenstine</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">7th <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Harvard_Law_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Dean of Harvard Law School">Dean of Harvard Law School</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1968–1971</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Griswold" title="Erwin Griswold">Erwin Griswold</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Albert_Martin_Sacks" class="mw-redirect" title="Albert Martin Sacks">Albert Martin Sacks</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Derek Curtis Bok</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1930-03-22</span>) </span>March 22, 1930<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 94)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr,_Pennsylvania" title="Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania">Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sissela_Bok" title="Sissela Bok">Sissela Myrdal</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1955)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Bok" title="Curtis Bok">Curtis Bok</a> (father)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Bok" title="Edward Bok">Edward Bok</a> (grandfather)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mary_Louise_Curtis" title="Mary Louise Curtis">Mary Louise Curtis</a> (grandmother)<br /><a href="/wiki/Cyrus_H._K._Curtis" title="Cyrus H. K. Curtis">Cyrus H. K. Curtis</a> (great-grandfather)<br /><a href="/wiki/Hilary_Bok" title="Hilary Bok">Hilary Bok</a> (daughter)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bok" title="Gordon Bok">Gordon Bok</a> (cousin)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> (<a href="/wiki/B._A." class="mw-redirect" title="B. A.">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard University</a> (<a href="/wiki/J._D." class="mw-redirect" title="J. D.">JD</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University">George Washington University</a> (<a href="/wiki/M._A." class="mw-redirect" title="M. A.">MA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Sciences_Po" title="Sciences Po">Sciences Po</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">Lawyer</a>, college administrator</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Derek Curtis Bok</b> (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and former president of <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Bok&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bok was born in <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Mawr,_Pennsylvania" title="Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania">Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania</a>. 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 <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">B.A.</a>, 1951), <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Law_School" title="Harvard Law School">Harvard Law School</a> (<a href="/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor">J.D.</a>, 1954), attended <a href="/wiki/Sciences_Po" title="Sciences Po">Sciences Po</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University">George Washington University</a> (A.M., 1958). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Bok&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bok taught law at <a href="/wiki/Harvard" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard">Harvard</a> beginning in 1958 and was selected dean of the law school there (1968–1971) after Dean <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Griswold" title="Erwin Griswold">Erwin Griswold</a> was appointed Solicitor-General of the United States. He then served as the university's 25th <a href="/wiki/President_of_Harvard_University" title="President of Harvard University">president</a> (1971–1991), succeeding <a href="/wiki/Nathan_M._Pusey" class="mw-redirect" title="Nathan M. Pusey">Nathan M. Pusey</a>. In the mid-1970s, Bok negotiated with <a href="/wiki/Radcliffe_College" title="Radcliffe College">Radcliffe College</a> president <a href="/wiki/Matina_Horner" title="Matina Horner">Matina Horner</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Hauser_Center_for_Nonprofit_Organizations" title="Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations">Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations</a> at Harvard, taught at the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Graduate_School_of_Education" title="Harvard Graduate School of Education">Harvard Graduate School of Education</a>, and is the 300th Anniversary University Professor at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Kennedy_School" title="Harvard Kennedy School">Harvard Kennedy School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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, <i>Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds</i> (Harvard University Press, 2001).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This focus has continued in Bok's numerous publications since retiring as Harvard president. He was the recipient of the 2001 <a href="/wiki/University_of_Louisville" title="University of Louisville">University of Louisville</a> <a href="/wiki/Grawemeyer_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grawemeyer Award">Grawemeyer Award</a> in Education for his book, <i>The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions</i>, co-authored with the former President of <a href="/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University">Princeton University</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_G._Bowen" title="William G. Bowen">William G. Bowen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-grawemeyer.org_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grawemeyer.org-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute#Disputed_statement" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute"><span title="The material near this tag is possibly inaccurate or nonfactual. (April 2023)">dubious</span></a> – <a href="/wiki/Talk:Derek_Bok#Dubious" title="Talk:Derek Bok">discuss</a></i>]</sup> self sourced <sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Extension_School" title="Harvard Extension School">Harvard Extension School</a> instituted the <a href="/wiki/Derek_Bok_Public_Service_Prizes" title="Derek Bok Public Service Prizes">Derek Bok Public Service Prizes</a>, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bok served as interim president of Harvard from <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Summers" title="Lawrence Summers">Lawrence Summers</a>'s resignation on July 1, 2006, to the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Drew_Faust" class="mw-redirect" title="Drew Faust">Drew Gilpin Faust</a> presidency on July 1, 2007. He is a member of both the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Philosophical_Society" title="American Philosophical Society">American Philosophical Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Bok&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1955, Bok married Swedish sociologist and philosopher <a href="/wiki/Sissela_Bok" title="Sissela Bok">Sissela Bok</a> (née Myrdal) (daughter of the Swedish economist <a href="/wiki/Gunnar_Myrdal" title="Gunnar Myrdal">Gunnar Myrdal</a> and the politician and diplomat <a href="/wiki/Alva_Myrdal" title="Alva Myrdal">Alva Myrdal</a>, both Nobel laureates), who received her doctorate from Harvard in 1970.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His daughter, <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Bok" title="Hilary Bok">Hilary Bok</a>, is a philosophy professor at <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a>. </p><p>Bok is the son of Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Bok" title="Curtis Bok">Curtis Bok</a> and Margaret Plummer Bok;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the grandson of Dutch-born <i><a href="/wiki/Ladies%27_Home_Journal" title="Ladies' Home Journal">Ladies' Home Journal</a></i> editor <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bok" title="Edward Bok">Edward Bok</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_Louise_Curtis" title="Mary Louise Curtis">Mary Louise Curtis</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Institute_of_Music" title="Curtis Institute of Music">Curtis Institute of Music</a>; the cousin of prominent Maine folklorist <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Bok" title="Gordon Bok">Gordon Bok</a>; and the great-grandson of <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_H._K._Curtis" title="Cyrus H. K. Curtis">Cyrus H. K. Curtis</a>, founder of the <a href="/wiki/Curtis_Publishing_Company" title="Curtis Publishing Company">Curtis Publishing Company</a>, publisher of national magazines such as <i><a href="/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Derek_Bok&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFCoxBok1962" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/Archibald_Cox" title="Archibald Cox">Cox, Archibald</a>; Bok, Derek (1962), <i>Cases and Materials on Labor Law</i>, Brooklyn, NY: <a href="/wiki/Foundation_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Foundation Press">Foundation Press</a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cases+and+Materials+on+Labor+Law&rft.place=Brooklyn%2C+NY&rft.pub=Foundation+Press&rft.date=1962&rft.aulast=Cox&rft.aufirst=Archibald&rft.au=Bok%2C+Derek&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBokDunlop1970" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek C.; <a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_Dunlop" title="John Thomas Dunlop">Dunlop, John T.</a> (1970), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/laboramericancom0000bokd"><i>Labor and the American Community</i></a>, New York: Simon & Schuster, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671203665" title="Special:BookSources/0671203665"><bdi>0671203665</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Labor+and+the+American+Community&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=1970&rft.isbn=0671203665&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek+C.&rft.au=Dunlop%2C+John+T.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Flaboramericancom0000bokd&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok1982" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (1982), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nGq9xFAylZUC"><i>Beyond the Ivory Tower</i></a>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674068998" title="Special:BookSources/0674068998"><bdi>0674068998</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beyond+the+Ivory+Tower&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0674068998&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DnGq9xFAylZUC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok1983" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (1983), "Foreword", in Harvard Nuclear Study Group (ed.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7KG3QzHy0ygC"><i>Living with Nuclear Weapons</i></a>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. xiii–xvii, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674536657" title="Special:BookSources/0674536657"><bdi>0674536657</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Foreword&rft.btitle=Living+with+Nuclear+Weapons&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pages=xiii-xvii&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1983&rft.isbn=0674536657&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D7KG3QzHy0ygC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok1986" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (1986), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HqIlKtyiBowC"><i>Higher Learning</i></a>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674391756" title="Special:BookSources/0674391756"><bdi>0674391756</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Higher+Learning&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1986&rft.isbn=0674391756&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHqIlKtyiBowC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok1990" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (1990), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wQqfAAAAMAAJ"><i>Universities and the Future of America</i></a>, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780822310365" title="Special:BookSources/9780822310365"><bdi>9780822310365</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Universities+and+the+Future+of+America&rft.place=Durham%2C+NC&rft.pub=Duke+University+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=9780822310365&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwQqfAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok1996" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (1996), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=idillvhF06wC"><i>The State of the Nation</i></a>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674292103" title="Special:BookSources/0674292103"><bdi>0674292103</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+State+of+the+Nation&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0674292103&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DidillvhF06wC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBowenBok2000" class="citation cs2"><a href="/wiki/William_G._Bowen" title="William G. Bowen">Bowen, William G.</a>; Bok, Derek (2000) [1998], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fCy2CwAAQBAJ"><i>The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions</i></a>, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0691050198" title="Special:BookSources/0691050198"><bdi>0691050198</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Shape+of+the+River%3A+Long-Term+Consequences+of+Considering+Race+in+College+and+University+Admissions&rft.place=Princeton%2C+NJ&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0691050198&rft.aulast=Bowen&rft.aufirst=William+G.&rft.au=Bok%2C+Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfCy2CwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok2001" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (2001), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YqtTjbY1VwkC"><i>The Trouble with Government</i></a>, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674004485" title="Special:BookSources/0674004485"><bdi>0674004485</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Trouble+with+Government&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0674004485&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DYqtTjbY1VwkC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok2003" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (2003), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=jp333nuZrToC"><i>Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education</i></a>, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0691114129" title="Special:BookSources/0691114129"><bdi>0691114129</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Universities+in+the+Marketplace%3A+The+Commercialization+of+Higher+Education&rft.place=Princeton%2C+NJ&rft.pub=Princeton+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0691114129&rft.aulast=Bok&rft.aufirst=Derek&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Djp333nuZrToC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADerek+Bok" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBok2008" class="citation cs2">Bok, Derek (2008) [2006], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tBsSL6gqWnoC"><i>Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More</i></a>, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a 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