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Members of Harvard’s two governing boards said that they thought Faust would pursue largely the same priorities as Summers—most notably the review of the undergraduate curriculum, the Allston expansion, and the emphasis on scientific research...
...natural sciences.”A lot of money is at stake. More than half a billion dollars’ worth of new science buildings are nearing completion behind the Science Center, and billions more are slated to be spent for the planned science-heavy expansion into Allston.“People are going to watch the budget—where does money go, where do new professorships go,” Mendelsohn said. Faust, a scholar of the Civil War and the American South, will be the fifth consecutive Harvard president who is not a scientist. While some Harvard...
...Asked about Harvard's weakness, Faust discusses the need for expansion into Allston to improve Harvard's science initiatives, as well as the need for improvements in undergraduate education...
...Greeted by the longest applause of the conference, Faust takes the stage. Faust discusses the challenges facing Harvard and the University's expansion into Allston. "Americans sacrifice and struggle to get their children into college or university, yet mock those same institutions as self indulgent, hidebound, badly managed," she says. She says that what Harvard "helps to define the character and meaning of the universities of the 21st century...
With the 50-year Allston plan, the implementation of the new General Education program, and such endeavors as the Stem Cell Institute looming, what Harvard needed was a capable manager and an administrator—and not just an accomplished scholar previously confined to the intellectual fantasyland of “women’s studies...