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Today's official confirmation, which comes three days after The Crimson first reported that the committee had selected Faust, wraps up a presidential search that lasted nearly a year. Summers announced his resignation from the presidency on February...
...that the notion of taking the quality of teaching into account in tenure and pay decisions would “encourage people to be the best teachers they can.” Faust planned to meet with members of both the student and faculty advisory committees to the presidential search on Sunday night. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached at pbhayani@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...press conference by President-elect of Harvard Drew Gilpin Faust just took place in the Barker Center, soon after the Board of Overseers approved the search committee's choice...
...held top posts at their respective institutions. As president of Harvard, Faust will find many new challenges. Rather than dealing with budget reductions, she will be spearheading the University’s massive expansion into Allston.The choice of Faust also seems to run counter to the desire of some search committee members who were looking for a leader with deep science ties. With research slated to be a primary focus of the proposed Allston campus, both Thomas R. Cech, a 1989 Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Hyman, who holds a professorship...
...with a gust of humor (Duke President Richard H. Brodhead: “What a foolish question. I already have a great job”) and others with a gasp of exasperation (head of Penn Amy Gutmann ’71, who made it deep into the search that resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection six years ago: “I am absolutely committed to being Penn’s president, and I am not interested in any other presidency”).Such denials have become standard in presidential searches of elite institutions as university leaders, facing...