Harvard Set to Name First Woman President
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Harvard is expected to name its first woman president, according to a report on the website of the Harvard Crimson.
The Crimson states that when The Board of Overseers, the governing alumni group that must approve the president meets Saturday, they reportedly will approve of the selection of Drew Gilpin Faust, 59, the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at the University.
Ms. Faust would be the 28th president in the school’s 371-year-history.
If approved, Ms. Faust will take over on July 1st, succeeding interim president Derek C. Bok who took over last summer from Larence H. Summers.
Mr. Summers resigned amidst tension with the faculty.
A spokesman for Harvard emailed the Crimson Friday, declining to comment.
Faust is set to succeed Lawrence H. Summers, who stepped down one year ago amid tensions with faculty. Derek C. Bok has served as Harvard’s interim president since last summer.
Ms. Faust , anoted scholar and hsitorian of the Civil War and the American South as wekk as the author of five books, did not returns calls from The New York Sun seeking comment.
Ms. Faust became dean of the Radcliffe Institute on Janaury 1, 2001, according to the biography on the School’s website. She also holds an appointment as the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Previously, she was the Annenberg Professor of History and director of the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Faust is a historian of the Civil War and the American South, according to her biography.
