Derek Bok

Looking into education's high-tech future

During the past year, universities have begun to attract a new kind of publicity. The most arresting stories to appear in our newspapers have not featured students or professors or even new curricula. They have focused on machines:Hewlett-Packard Gives Five Million Dollar Grant for Computer Equipment to Harvard Medical School

Reconciling Conflicts — The Challenge for the University

As societies become more advanced and more complicated, universities and the education and research they provide grow steadily more important. Certainly, we at Harvard — as at other universities — experience every day our increasing involvements with industry, government, and other important segments of society. While these links bring many wonderful opportunities, they also create many complicating entanglements and difficult dilemmas that have provoked much debate.