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Last month, Harvard’s Board of Overseers confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president. A civil war historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust, for some, has come to represent the antithesis of former President Lawrence H. Summers. Where Summers was viewed as abrasive and controversial, Faust has built a reputation for her powers of consensus-building, which might prove useful given the tempestuous relations between the Faculty and former president...
...that we do not—and indeed cannot—possibly know the answer until Faust has had the chance to reveal her priorities through action. Second, we believe that this question is the wrong one to ask. The right question to ask is whether or not Drew Gilpin Faust will take the right steps to improve the undergraduate experience, a question that we can only evaluate in the light of the following considerations...
...policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust--the first woman to head the institution--is a renowned historian...
President Drew Gilpin Faust By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, February 09, 2007 5:01 AM We hope that Faust, even in the face of adversity, will have the courage to defend the right decision even when it is unpopular and the wisdom to recognize when an unpopular decision is wrong...
...woman president of Harvard. I’m the president of Harvard." President-elect Drew Gilpin Faust felt the need to make this clarification for a distinct reason: Since her selection, and, indeed, during the entire selection process, most of the press coverage of Harvard’s presidential search has been viewed through a gendered lens...