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...name has been on people’s lips for weeks, and in recent days she has been the clear frontrunner in the search for Harvard’s 28th leader. Though leading the University will represent a significant leap from her deanship at Radcliffe, friends and colleagues say they have no doubt that Drew Gilpin Faust is ready for the job. “I think she’s maybe the most impressive person I know,” says Steven Hahn, a professor of history at University of Pennsylvania who has known Faust for more than...
Rudenstine said Faust was "the candidate to beat" in the course of the search, even when pitted against provosts and presidents of other prominent institutions...
Rudenstine said he was confident in the ability of Faust, a Civil War historian, to lead the University's expansion into Allston and the school's push for new interdisciplinary science initiatives. Some search committee members had expressed interest in appointing a scientist to the post. Rudenstine, however, said that it was more important that the committee select somebody with "genuine intellectual depth and breadth" like Faust...
While the drama surrounding the University’s presidential search might not make for the biggest summer movie hit, the Harvard Management Company has a different sort of “blockbuster” in mind...
...confirmation of Faust’s location, and Faust’s cell phone was turned off throughout the evening. Her daughter, Jessica Rosenberg, also had her cell phone off and could not be reached at the New Yorker, where she works. Individuals connected to the University and the search process stayed quiet as well. Several members of the Board of Overseers contacted by phone refused to comment, as did the University’s official spokesman. Two of the other presidential search finalists—Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan—kept...