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This school year has been one of great transition for Harvard. While the University saw the beginning of a new era with the installation of President Drew G. Faust, the College has undergone a radical change in admissions policy, a huge expansion of financial aid, and a revamped curriculum. While The Crimson was generally optimistic about the College’s new programs, we turned a critical eye to their implementation, as well as to inept bureaucratic attempts to tamper with existing structures...
This was a year of new beginnings for the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), with a new president and a new dean at their helms. For University President Drew G. Faust, who was in the national spotlight as Harvard’s first female leader, the pressure was particularly strong. Fortunately for her and for the University, Faust proved up to the challenges of her inaugural year. She responded skillfully to the tasks before her, from her appointment of numerous administrators, to the creation of a task force aimed at increasing interdisciplinary cooperation in a field...
Occupying one of the most visible bully pulpits in academia—and one that famously tanked one of her predecessors—Faust took courageous and well-reasoned stands on important issues. On her second day in office, she denounced a British boycott of Israeli academics. In March, she testified in front of the U.S. Senate in favor of increasing the funding of the National Institutes of Health. And just yesterday, at the Reserve Office Training Core commissioning ceremony, she leveled much-needed criticism against the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don?...
...After Lawrence H. Summers was ousted from Harvard’s presidency, Stone seriously considered leaving his post, as he thought that University President Drew G. Faust would want to install her own administration, and that it would be a natural transition point to exit Harvard. (Stone had previously left Columbia during its presidential transition...
...when he met with Faust four months after announcing that he would be leaving, he changed his mind. By staying, he would have the opportunity to facilitate Faust’s transition to Mass. Hall...