#  Harvard Gazette Interview: What's Next for the Bok Center 

 





February 17, 2025

 

 

Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director Karen Thornber was recently interviewed about her vision for the Bok Center by the Harvard Gazette.

> As Karen Thornber envisions the next chapter for the Bok Center, connection, collaboration, and innovation are her guiding principles.
> 
> Since Hopi Hoekstra, the Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, appointed Thornber to the role of Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the [**Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning**](https://bokcenter.harvard.edu/) in July, the Harry Tuchman Levin Professor in [**Literature**](https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/) and Professor of [**East Asian Languages and Civilizations**](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/) has set her sights on expanding the reach and deepening the impact of the center, which has served the Faculty of Arts and Sciences community for 50 years.

[Read the full story in the Harvard Gazette.](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/new-era-for-the-bok-center/)



 

 

 



 

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