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...American higher education,” said Paul S. Grogran, Harvard’s former vice president for government, community and public affairs. Faust’s selection is “going to get a lot of coverage, as it should,” he said. When Lawrence H. Summers, a former Secretary of the Treasury, was picked to serve as university president in 2001, The New York Times ran a story on page 32. Last Saturday, the news that the search committee had selected Faust made the front page. In addition to the national media attention Faust?...
Today it’s a decrepit basement with library stacks propping up the ceiling, signs warning of asbestos, and wiring and piping dating back to the 1930s. But in the eyes of Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, the dreary Littauer Library soon could be much more: the site of spacious classrooms and graduate offices as well as a new home for nomadic economics concentrators and their far-flung professors.The dream will have to wait.An upcoming renovation of the Fogg Art Museum has put Stock’s hope for a re-born Littauer Center on hold, possibly...
...Jayne professor of government, said in an interview yesterday.Among the challenges Faust will face in the coming years, professors across FAS said, defining the place of science in the University may be the most difficult—and the most essential.Faust’s controversial predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, came under fire for, among other things, emphasizing science growth at the expense of other fields. Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn said that Summers “had hitched his wagon to the growth of the natural sciences.”A lot of money...
...group also called on Faust to continue the work of predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, in expanding ideological diversity within the University faculty and considering the concerns of ROTC students on campus...
...election of Nathan M. Pusey ’28 when two overseers—J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25 and Joseph Alsop ’32—opposed Pusey’s candidacy. Unanimity is generally expected, Schlesinger said. In the last presidential search, Lawrence H. Summers also gained unanimous approval from the Overseers. Summers’ confirmation meeting was held on the 64th floor of a Rockefeller Center skyscraper in midtown Manhattan. —Staff writer Stephanie S. Garlow can be reached at sgarlow@fas.harvard.edu...