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Members of Harvard’s two governing boards said that they thought Faust would pursue largely the same priorities as Summers??most notably the review of the undergraduate curriculum, the Allston expansion, and the emphasis on scientific research...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Confirmed; After Unanimous Vote, Radcliffe Dean Officially Named First Female Leader | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...Corporation fellow Nannerl O. Keohane said in an interview that the governing boards “were not looking for an anti-Larry” candidate and that they wanted to find somebody who “shared Summers?? commitment to positive change...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Confirmed; After Unanimous Vote, Radcliffe Dean Officially Named First Female Leader | 2/12/2007 | See Source »

...have “a long and successful term,” noting Bok’s prediction at an earlier press conference that she would serve 30 or 40 years. On the subject of her predecessor, Faust said that of all of former University President Lawrence H. Summers?? qualities, the one she wished she could emulate most were his “sharp analytic skills.” “Larry has always been very good at identifying problems and analyzing problems,” she said. “He made me think harder...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Foresees 'Long and Successful Term' | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

Former University President Lawrence H. Summers??s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers?? chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: The Apotheosis of Doctor Faust | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

...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 pressure from trustees...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President of Harvard: A Plum Job No More? | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

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