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...completion behind the Science Center, and billions more are slated to be spent for the planned science-heavy expansion into Allston.“People are going to watch the budget—where does money go, where do new professorships go,” Mendelsohn said. Faust, a scholar of the Civil War and the American South, will be the fifth consecutive Harvard president who is not a scientist. While some Harvard observers have wondered whether her credentials measure up to the needs of a university in the process of aggressively expanding research, FAS professors interviewed yesterday praised...
...Drew Faust is an outstanding scholar and has been an extraordinary academic leader at Radcliffe and in the university community more broadly," Summers said in a statement to The Crimson. "I look forward to the great things that the Harvard community will accomplish in the years ahead with Drew's leadership...
...James R. Houghton '58, the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, sends an e-mail to the Harvard community announcing the confirmation of Faust as Harvard's 28th president. "Drew is an inspiring and accomplished institutional leader, a superb scholar, an outstanding teacher, and a wonderful human being. Harvard will benefit from her experience, her energy, and her wisdom in the years to come...
...Drew Faust is a highly experienced scholar with a record of success in all she undertakes, a fine sense of values, and a deep understanding of universities. I believe that she is an excellent choice to lead Harvard during a very important and promising period in its history...
With the 50-year Allston plan, the implementation of the new General Education program, and such endeavors as the Stem Cell Institute looming, what Harvard needed was a capable manager and an administrator—and not just an accomplished scholar previously confined to the intellectual fantasyland of “women’s studies...