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Though President-elect Drew G. Faust was not officially involved in the decision, she has said that she communicated with Bok on the issue throughout this spring...
Stagehands scurried around the Barker Center in mid-February with potted plants and a flashy red banner in hand. Inside the first-floor Thompson Room, the stage was being set for the afternoon’s main act: President-elect Drew G. Faust. Flanked by members of Harvard’s governing boards, and with John Harvard and a former Radcliffe president looking down from the wood-paneled walls, Faust took the national spotlight for the first time as Harvard’s next leader...
...Faust’s docket may be filled with unfinished projects, but the president-elect has also tried to save room for her own initiatives, one of which is a project to enhance the arts at Harvard...
...chief issues facing President-elect Faust will be the challenge of expanding science at Harvard while maintaining the coherence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and allowing both small and large research endeavors to thrive. Such vexing tasks don’t call for someone with a particular academic background; they require and deserve a trustworthy steward with proven leadership and intellectual abilities—someone who can listen and who will respond intelligently and appropriately to new circumstances...
...Fortunately for Harvard, our President-elect has proven herself to be a careful decision-maker with the sound judgment it will take to face such issues—one who seeks input from a wide range of opinions. This doesn’t mean it will be easy. But such qualities will prove essential as Faust tackles the challenging scientific concerns at Harvard, chooses deans to work with on these and other important questions, and addresses other arenas such as gender and minority issues—including those in the sciences where they are far from settled. I am still...