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...group charged with finding Harvard’s next president is preparing to begin final-round interviews, with Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and University of Cambridge chief Alison F. Richard among the names being most seriously considered by the committee, according to two individuals familiar with the group's activities...
...candidates’ publicly stated interest or disinterest in the presidency. Still, the statements by Etchemendy and Richard, 58, suggest that the search committee may have to expand its list of finalists if it’s not content with a choice between the two insiders, Faust and Kagan...
While many informed observers have long considered Kagan a leading candidate for the presidency, the two sources said that some members of the committee currently view her as a relatively weaker contender compared to other candidates...
...Kagan, 46, has spent only a little more than 11 years in academia. By contrast, Faust, 59, has served as a professor at Penn and Harvard for more than three decades...
...recent days, members of the search committee have swooped in and out of Cambridge, hosting informal chats with Kagan, Faust, and another named candidate, University Provost Steven E. Hyman, two of the sources said...