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Three-hundred and seventy-one years after Harvard was founded to train the men who would lead New England, a woman has been named the University’s 28th president...
...name has been on people’s lips for weeks, and in recent days she has been the clear frontrunner in the search for Harvard’s 28th leader. Though leading the University will represent a significant leap from her deanship at Radcliffe, friends and colleagues say they have no doubt that Drew Gilpin Faust is ready for the job. “I think she’s maybe the most impressive person I know,” says Steven Hahn, a professor of history at University of Pennsylvania who has known Faust for more than...
...went into her house when approached by a reporter. In an apparent coincidence, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is set to play Berlioz’s “Damnation de Faust” on Monday, the day after Faust is expected to be named the University’s 28th president. —Paras D. Bhayani, Stephanie S. Garlow, Katherine M. Gray, Javier C. Hernandez, Laurence H. M. Holland, Kristina M. Moore, and Daniel J. T. Schuker contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Brittney L. Moraski can be reached at bmoraski@fas.harvard.edu...
With the nomination of Drew Gilpin Faust as the 28th president of Harvard University, the lengthy, largely secretive process has come to at an end. Whatever one thought of the Summers era and its ending, those who love Harvard are grateful to interim President Derek C. Bok for his calm, steady, and productive stewardship. Now that the Faust era will shortly begin, it is timely to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that confront our new president. As a student of leadership, who has had the opportunity to observe universities, and especially Harvard, over the decades, I would like...
Drew Gilpin Faust’s expected election as the 28th President of Harvard College will spark a flurry of attention. Worldwide, headlines will herald Harvard’s first female leader in its 371-year history. But as the world takes note of Harvard’s milestone, it will likely ignore the far more significant crossroads at which Harvard finds itself today...