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Nearing Loeb House, where the Board of Overseers had gathered to dub her Harvard’s president-elect, Drew Gilpin Faust paused and said, “I’d better kiss my husband.” The object of her affection, science historian Charles Rosenberg, told her, “Knock ’em dead.” She walked to the door alone.While the board members listened to the Radcliffe dean make her case yesterday, a gaggle of reporters and Town Car chauffeurs congregated on Quincy Street in anxious and somewhat less anxious anticipation, respectively.Cuisine...
...veteran academic and Civil War historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust was offered the presidency earlier this week by the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s executive governing body. She has been widely praised for her strong interpersonal skills and familiarity with Harvard’s schools, and for skillfully transforming Radcliffe from a beloved women’s college into a sought-after hub of academic fellowships...
...veteran academic and Civil War historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust was offered the presidency earlier this week by the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing body. She is expected to begin her term in office on July...
...hope, however, that Faust does not arrive at the door of Massachusetts Hall with an unshakeable label as the “anti-Summers”: the woman, the historian, the life-long academic, the gentle administrator...
...daughters of Harvard and people who never studied in Widener Library. And yet, these very different provosts, presidents, and prize-winners all had one thing in common: they did not want to become the next president of Harvard University. With the Board of Overseers’ approval of Harvard historian Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president forthcoming, observers of the process offer a number of explanations as to why the most promising candidates from outside Cambridge did not seem interested in Mass. Hall’s corner office: poor timing, the reputation of Harvard?...