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Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Derek BokDrawing on a large body of empirical evidence, former Harvard President Derek Bok examines how much progress college students actually make toward widely accepted goals of undergraduate education.
The Business of Higher Education [3 volumes]
PreviewNow it is hard to think of better company than Derek Bok and a superb California Chardonnay, but Jobin Stone was becoming more fretful by the minute. As the clock in Jobin's office struck 11:30, he grabbed Derek Bok by the arm. In a frightful ...
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much ...
Derek Bok"Derek Bok's Our Underachieving Colleges is readable, balanced, often wry, and wise. This book should be required reading for every curriculum committee and academic dean.
Records of President Derek Bok: Speeches
More editionsContains mainly medals and mementoes presented to Bok as President of Harvard; photographs; material relating to Bok's trip to East Asia in 1977; and a small amount of correspondence.
Records of President Derek Bok: Resolutions on Inauguration
Harvard University. President's OfficeConsists of resolutions congratulating D.C. Bok on the occasion of his inauguration as 25th President of Harvard. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts (apparently from the Senate of the Comm. of Mass.).
Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of ...
Derek BokIs everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes.
Open Letter from Derek Bok to the Harvard Community on the ...
Harvard UniversityIncluded in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.
An Open Letter from Derek Bok to the Harvard Community on ...
Harvard UniversityIncluded in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.
Higher Education in America
Derek BokSweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today.
THE USES OF THE UNIVERSITY
Clark KerrAnyone wishing to understand the American research university—past, present, and future—must begin with a careful reading of this book." —Derek Bok, President Emeritus, Harvard University
Derek
Renee LarsenBut Derek has a secret, he's a vampire. In order for Derek to protect the delicate blonde Emily he must charm her into loving him. Derek's plans are sabotaged when the evil Jacque pushes the envelope and attacks Emily's father.
North Korea and the World: Human Rights, Arms Control, and ...
Walter C. Clemens Jr.5. a. henry Savage-landor, Corea, or Cho-Sen: The Land of the Morning Calm ( New York: Macmillan, 1895). 6. Quoted in Yur-Bok lee, “a Korean View.” 7. Quoted in Yur-Bok lee, “Korean-american diplomatic relations, 1882–1905,” in Yur-Bok ...
Summary: The Politics of Happiness: Review and Analysis of ...
BusinessNews PublishingThe must-read summary of Derek Bok's book: “The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being”.
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges
Derek BokMary Grigsby, College Life through the Eyes of Students (2009), p. 54. 5. See, e.g., Peter Sacks, Generation X Goes to College: An Eye-Opening Account of Teaching in Postmodern America (1996); Professor X, In the Basement of the Ivory ...
Know And Grow With Derek 8
O' Brien Derek"In this country Derek O'Brien is synonymous with knowledge based game shows ." The Times of India 'There is a bright child in every child and Derek knows exactly howto bring it out" Oman Daily "Derek O'Brien's new mantra is Know and ...
Conversations with Derek Walcott
Derek WalcottDerek. Walcott. Edward. Hirsch/. 1977. From Contemporary Literature, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 279-92. Reprinted by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press. Derek Walcott is the most important poet and playwright writing in ...
Contemporary India: Society and Its Governance
A. PremchandIn Stephen Howes et al. (eds.). Bok, Derek, 2001. The Trouble with Government, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Bunsha, Dionne, 2006. Scarred: Experiments with Violence in Gujarat, Delhi: Penguin. Campbell-Johnson, Alan, 1951 ...
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges
Derek BokThe description for this book, The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, will be forthcoming.
Capital, Labor, and State: The Battle for American Labor ...
David Brian RobertsonWarren R. Van Tine, The Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870-1920 (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1973) , 82, 119, 124; Keyssar, Out of Work, 218-19; Derek C. Bok, "Reflections on the ...
Gone Girl:
Gillian Flynn# Nominerad till: Women_s Prize for Fiction. # Årets bästa bok av Amazon och Barnes & Noble. # Årets mest recenserade bok på Good Reads, över 50.000 recensioner! # Översatt till 30 språk. »En superbt välskriven thriller.« JAN ...
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The Baby-Sitters Club #27: Jessi and the Superbrat
Ann M. Martin“Derek!” Now I got it. “Derek! You mean Waldo? Are you saying that that was Waldo's mother calling us for a babysitter?” Kristy shot me a look that said, Calm down, Jessi, this is a babysitting job, not a meeting of the Derek Masters Fan Club.
Derek Jarman
Rowland Wymer1 Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament (London: Hutchinson, 1992; repr. London: Vintage, 1993), p. 117. 2 Tony Peake, Derek Jarman ( London: Little, Brown, 1999). There is also a good deal of useful information in Michael ...
Meet Derek Jeter: Baseball's Superstar Shortstop
Ethan EdwardsWhen Derek Jeter was six years old, he told his parents that one day he would play shortstop for the New York Yankees. Guess what happened? Jeter's dream came true. Today, Derek Jeter is probably baseball's most famous athlete.
US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an ...
Derek S. ReveronThe Evolution of an Incidental Superpower Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ... Civil-Military Relations during the Clinton- Bush Era,” in Inside Defense: Understanding the 21st Century Military, ed. Derek ...
History of Asian Americans: Exploring Diverse Roots: ...
Jonathan H. X. LeeElizabeth, NJ: Hollym International Corp., 2004. Lee, Yur-Bok. “Korean-American Diplomatic Relations, 1882–1905.” In One Hundred Years of Korean-American Relations, 1882–1982, edited by Yur-Bok Lee and Wayne Patterson.
Fatherhood - Arabic
Derek Prince Ministries-InternationalDerek Prince Ministries-International, Derek Prince. nature of God. In God, eternally, there is fatherhood. There is a relationship. When Jesus came to earth, His ultimate purpose was to bring to the Father those who would turn to Him. This is ...
Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek ...
Dominic JanesHe brings the account full circle with a concluding chapter on the life and works of Derek Jarman.
Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics
Paula BurnettThis text offers an interpretation of the life's work of acclaimed St. Lucian poet, Derek Walcott.
Set Apart For God
Derek PrinceYet many of us never open it because we think it is an outdated concept about restrictive rules. Or, we believe we could never live up to its demands. Derek Prince reveals the beauty and power of holiness.
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