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...Drew Gilpin Faust is unanimously confirmed by the Board of Overseers as Harvard's 28th president, according to Overseers exiting Loeb House. She is the first woman to hold the position in history...
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...
...press conference by President-elect of Harvard Drew Gilpin Faust just took place in the Barker Center, soon after the Board of Overseers approved the search committee's choice...
Today, 17 years later, it is the same author who must see to the fighting that has, of late, characterized the academic politics of our university. Drew Gilpin Faust, who has since migrated from her university chair in Philadelphia to keep house at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will exemplify—as Harvard’s first woman president—those inversions of traditional gender roles that she is so fond of studying...
...Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard has selected an academic indisputably well-qualified by the standards that govern today’s professional scholarship. But the Harvard President occupies a position more prominent than just that of a primer inter pares among the hundreds of professors...