WHO:     Derek Bok, president emeritus of Harvard University

WHAT:   "The Commercialization of Higher Education"

WHEN:   Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, 4 p.m.

WHERE: The Class of 9 Auditorium, Houston Hall, University of Pennsylvania campus

Bok's address, "The Commercialization of Higher Education," is the inaugural Howard P. and Judith R. Berkowitz Lecture, sponsored by Penn Graduate School of Education.

He is the 300th Anniversary University Professor and acting director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Bok has been a professor in and dean of the Harvard Law School and president of Harvard.  He has written four books on higher education: "Beyond the Ivory Tower," "Higher Learning," "Universities and the Future of America" and "The Shape of the River."  His current research interests include the state of higher education and a project sponsored by several foundations on the adequacy of the U.S. government in coping with the nation's domestic problems. His two books on this subject are "The State of the Nation and "The Trouble with Government."