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Drew Gilpin Faust??s rise to the Harvard presidency has come under fire from the National Association of Scholars (NAS), which expressed concern this week over the Radcliffe dean’s “strong feminist bent” and the manner in which she would make personnel decisions. Stephen H. Balch, president and founder of the Washington-based group, said that he feared that Faust would push to use gender and perhaps racial criteria in hiring and tenure decisions. “The greatest worry”, Balch said in a statement...
Christopher Lacaria is welcome to his opinion (“The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” column, Feb. 11) about the selection of Harvard’s new president. But casting aspersions on President-elect Faust??s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust??s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War?...
...academic” side of the Harvard spectrum, whether in science or the humanities. Shame, too, on the many undergraduate commentators (visible in The Crimson’s online edition) who make similar comments and claim to be “disappointed” with the selection of Faust??or, worse, who produce outrightly sexist and ignorant rants. These undergraduates were hoping instead for a retired celebrity from the world of business or government: full speed ahead from the pages of The New York Times to Cambridge, Massachusetts! And all the better if the new president...
Shortly after learning that Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust??not Kagan—had been named over the weekend to lead the University, a group of Law School students decided to organize a celebration to show their enthusiasm for Kagan’s continued deanship, according to Andrew M. Woods, a second-year law student...
...While Faust??s gender is an important indicator of the drastic changes the institution of the president has undergone, it is reductive to harp on it too much; its not what earned her the accolade, and it certainly isn’t what will decide the success of her term. If anything is to be learned from her predecessors, it is that the president’s personal attributes are secondary to his or her ability to respond to the needs of the community...