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...fall of 2001, shortly after she arrived at Harvard as Dean of the newly created Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Drew Gilpin Faust gave a speech to the entering class. She told the story of a young woman named Sarah Pellet who in 1850 had the audacity to ask for admission to Harvard University. In his rejection letter, President Jared Sparks, Class of 1815, assured her that the College was only acting in her best interest: “I should doubt whether a solitary female, mingling as she must do promiscuously with so large a number of the other...
...Super Bowl Sunday in early February, there was little Drew Gilpin Faust could do to lose. With her husband by her side and her mutt Clio on a leash, the business-suit-clad Faust strolled down Brattle Street, the historic Victorian way to the west of Harvard Yard. Outside the Garage complex on John F. Kennedy Street, she handed the leash to her husband and hopped into a waiting car headed for downtown Boston. There she would face and finally win over the nine-member group of lawyers, academics, and businessmen hunting for Harvard’s next president...
Harvard president Drew Gilpin Faust, TIME's Ed McCarrick, financier Stephen Schwarzman, Time Inc. ceo Ann Moore...
...Faust’s Scientific Leadership,” oped, Apr. 4. While we appreciate the editorial’s praise of the current state of science at the Radcliffe Institute and the acknowledgement of the role of President-elect of Harvard and Dean of the Radcliffe Institute Drew Gilpin Faust in its evolution, the piece could leave a reader believing that there were no scientists at Radcliffe prior to 2002. Since the founding of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study in 1960 (renamed the Bunting Institute in 1978), more than 1,300 scholars from all of the academic disciplines...
...present, we do not yet know whether Drew Gilpin Faust is that president. But, we know that she stands at the brink of an unprecedented opportunity to be that president. Based on our initial interactions with her, we remain optimistic about her vision. But it is too early for us to pass judgment on the actual impact she will have upon the student experience. We certainly hope that she is the best president for Harvard. From an undergraduate perspective, we hope even more strongly that she makes Harvard a better place for its students...