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President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust said in a phone interview this evening that Harvard has been reinvigorated during the tenure of Interim President Derek C. Bok, and that she is now ready to continue the University’s expansion into Allston and watch over the completion of the curricular review. When asked how long she would stay in office, Faust said only that she hoped to have “a long and successful term,” noting Bok’s prediction at an earlier press conference that she would serve 30 or 40 years...
...years, the leadership of Harvard has created a narrative of greater integration among the disparate faculties, and for a decade, the move to Allston has been a privileged vehicle for realizing this trend. But the devil remains in the details, and the new president will have to maintain and celebrate Harvard’s traditional strengths while still continuing and even accelerating these integrating presses. More so than any other university’s president, Harvard’s president must serve as both a trust officer and an agent of constructive change...
...will be spearheading the University’s massive expansion into Allston.The choice of Faust also seems to run counter to the desire of some search committee members who were looking for a leader with deep science ties. With research slated to be a primary focus of the proposed Allston campus, both Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Hyman, who holds a professorship at the Harvard Medical School, were considered strong candidates.While Faust has no scientific background, Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at Radcliffe, said that...
Faust will also be Harvard’s helmswoman through one of the most dramatic changes in its history: the expansion in Allston. The 50-year Allston Master Plan, released last month, roughly outlines plans for the University’s great undertaking, but the success of the implementation to follow will largely depend on the effectiveness of Harvard’s new president and the leaders she appoints...
...28th president forthcoming, observers of the process offer a number of explanations as to why the most promising candidates from outside Cambridge did not seem interested in Mass. Hall’s corner office: poor timing, the reputation of Harvard’s faculty, the looming giant of Allston, and the intense media scrutiny.The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Tufts all denied interest in Harvard’s top job. Some did so with a gust of humor (Duke President Richard H. Brodhead: “What a foolish question. I already have...