Camille Norton
Camille Norton is Associate Professor of English at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Her previous awards include the Grolier Prize in Poetry, the Derek Bok Award for Teaching, and the Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award. She is ... [... more]
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Biography - Bok, Derek (Curtis) (1930-): An article ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 13 Publication Date: 2002-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization ...
Consideration Of Effects Of Commercialization On Academia!: Anyone who has been associated with higher education in this country in the last fifty years is aware of the massive changes that have been sweeping over private colleges and state university [... more]
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The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a ...
Amazon.com Review: Derek Bok, a former Harvard president, understands the power of statistics. At their best, statistics provide a vital means to grasp the size and scope of a problem or to present a lucid image of a potential solution. Numbers are a [... more]
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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Responsible Teaching: Research Professor Derek Bok's "Our Underachieving Colleges" (2006, hardback) presents a new way of thinking about education in American colleges. Understanding that his presentation could create academic criticism, Bok [... more]
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The Cost of Talent: How Executives And Professionals Are ...
A Real "Who Cares" Sort of Book: While I bought this book some time ago, I just got around to reading it. A fan of Bok, you must wonder about why he wrote this book and why the publisher published it. Must have been "star struck". [... more]
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Higher Learning
Philosophical challenge of learning: This is a philosophical challenge of learning from Derek Bok, the president of Harvard University. It is also a well-written scrutiny of the American system of higher education from the perspective of 1986. (I should [... more]
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The Shape of the River
Amazon.com Review: Though the whole idea of racial preferences in higher education has become a flash point of controversy, neither side of the argument has had hard empirical evidence upon which to base its claims. This is precisely the kind of [... more]
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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Responsible Teaching: Research Professor Derek Bok's "Our Underachieving Colleges" (2006, hardback) presents a new way of thinking about education in American colleges. Understanding that his presentation could create academic criticism, Bok [... more]
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The Trouble with Government
Good Point, Wrong Title: This book's title immediately caught my attention. Currently many of us are not totally enamored with the present state of affairs in both the federal government and national politics. After completing the book, I am convinced [... more]
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Universities and the Future of America
The Essence of Education in the present State of the Nation: "It is fair to ask whether our universities are doing all they can and should to help America surmount the obstacles that sap our economic strength and blight the lives of millions of our [... more]
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Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization ...
Consideration Of Effects Of Commercialization On Academia!: Anyone who has been associated with higher education in this country in the last fifty years is aware of the massive changes that have been sweeping over private colleges and state university [... more]
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