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Derek Bok examines the complex ethical and social issues facing modern universities today, and suggests approaches that will allow the academic institution both to serve society and to continue its primary mission of teaching and research.

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• Introduction
• Part I Basic Academic Values
• 1 Academic Freedom
• 2 Institutional Autonomy and the Demands of the State
• 3 The Purposes of the University and Its Responsibilities to Society
• Part II Academic Responses to Social Problems
• 4 Access to the University and the Problem of Racial Inequality
• 5 The Moral Development of Students
• 6 Academic Science and the Quest for Technological Innovation
• 7 The Social Responsibilities of Research
• 8 Technical Assistance Abroad
• Part III Addressing Social Problems By Nonacademic Means
• 9 The University and the Local Community
• 10 Taking Political Positions
• 11 Accepting Gifts
• 12 Boycotts and Other Efforts to Avoid Outside Relationships
• Conclusion
• Index

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Writer, attorney and educator Derek C. Bok was educated at both Stanford University and Harvard University.

Bok became a professor, then dean at Harvard Law School, and finally president of Harvard University. He was also a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the chair of the board of overseers for the Curtis Institute of Music.

Bok writes about education in the United States in his books, Beyond the Ivory Tower and Higher Learning.

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