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...After three years of this work, I went to law school, because I wanted to understand how the law should work for those in need. I became a civil rights lawyer, and taught constitutional law, and after a time, I came to understand that our cherished rights of liberty and equality depend on the active participation of an awakened electorate. It was with these ideas in mind that I arrived in this capital city as a state Senator...
Rudenstine said he was confident in the ability of Faust, a Civil War historian, to lead the University's expansion into Allston and the school's push for new interdisciplinary science initiatives. Some search committee members had expressed interest in appointing a scientist to the post. Rudenstine, however, said that it was more important that the committee select somebody with "genuine intellectual depth and breadth" like Faust...
...minds. The new president cannot dwell on the Summers regime nor can she afford to ignore its lessons—manifold and controversial as they may be. President-designate Faust must build on her impressive achievements in her earlier roles and on her reputation as a person who is civil, fair-minded, and of unquestioned integrity. At the same time, she must constantly keep in mind that Harvard University is neither The University of Pennsylvania nor Radcliffe and that serving as President is not the same as serving as professor, department chair, or dean...
Drew Gilpin Faust, a Civil War scholar, will tackle a “reconstruction” of her own as the new president of Harvard—bringing the University back together after the tumultuous tenure of Lawrence H. Summers.Faust, whose selection still needs to be confirmed by the Board of Overseers in a meeting on Sunday, has served as dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, leading its transformation from a college for women into an institute for advanced study in a wide range of disciplines. At the institute, Faust oversees 81 staff members, fewer than...
...while making decisions bound to alienate, lead a 17th century institution facing 21st century problems, and respect Harvard’s traditions while simultaneously making bold changes for the future. Faust is a woman in a man’s world—both as a historian of the Civil War South and now as the lone woman in a succession of 27 men. She is a woman who makes her living studying the past but who now must look to the future...