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...Harvard who is also a woman, and that says that a woman can be president of Harvard.” Harvard’s president wasn’t the only academic recognized by the magazine. Honored alongside Faust were the three other female Ivy League presidents, Amy Gutmann ’71 of the University of Pennsylvania, Ruth J. Simmons of Brown, and Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton. “There’s a kind of evolving friendship and professional relationship that I value very much,” Faust said of sharing the award with...
...bearing witness to the past.” This is Morrison’s second visit to Harvard this year, having received the 2007 Radcliffe Institute Medal in June. Morrison read at the presidential inaugurations of Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann. Faust said that Morrison asked if she could also read during the inauguration festivities. “And I said, ‘Are you kidding?’” Faust exclaimed. The evening’s concert in Sanders featured a performance by the Kuumba Singers as well...
...official ceremony, Faust will receive formal greetings from members from Harvard’s governing boards; Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, representing the student body; University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, on behalf of higher education; and 92-year-old historian John Hope Franklin, in honor of Faust’s academic training as a Civil War historian...
...several of the all-star candidates had unambiguously withdrawn, and many of them decided to throw their weight behind Faust. Sometime in the fall, Gutmann, who had taken the helm of Penn just two years earlier, told the committee in person that she was not interested, according to one of the sources. On a separate trip to Cambridge in early October, she met with Faust, an old friend, over lunch at Upstairs on the Square. Soon after, Gutmann told the committee she supported Faust, the source said...
...list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education’s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who now led one of England’s crown jewels, the University of Cambridge; and Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who had led Princeton as president for a half-decade. (The committee seemed prepared to violate the unwritten rule against poaching leaders from fellow Ivies—if the right candidate...