She's the one on the left.
Posted on 02/09/2007 7:51:24 AM PST by Froufrou
Harvard University could be about to name its first female president, as the governing board charged with vetting candidates has narrowed its search to a single one, historian Drew Gilpin Faust, according to published reports.
The Harvard Corporation was expected to recommend Faust to the school's Board of Overseers, an alumni group that has final say, at a meeting on Sunday, multiple sources told The Boston Globe and The Harvard Crimson in Friday's editions.
Both newspapers said Faust was the only remaining candidate.
"We don't comment on the search process," Harvard spokesman John Longbrake told The Associated Press early Friday.
Faust, an expert on the Civil War and the American South, has been dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001 and also teaches in the history department. She has never run a major institution and did not attend Harvard, which the university usually prefers.
Faust would succeed Lawrence Summers, a former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, who resigned in June after a five-year tenure marked by conflicts with faculty. Summers' comments two years ago that genetic differences between the genders may explain the dearth of women in top science jobs drew sharp criticism and sparked calls from some alumni for the school to name a female president.
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Thanks for explaining that. Obviously, he was misunderstood.
Oh, whooptee dooooo....and I'm a woman.....who couldn't care less!
I wonder if she's good in math or science...
MM, see GNW's response...
;o)
I was thinking it was sort of a quick, visual version of, "Bless your heart."
I'm glad you saw the intended humor in my post.
Have a great day!
I do live, however nominally, in the south, and that's definitely my intended response to Antoninus on most things: "Bless Your Heart". ;-D
By now this is not an original thought, but the irony must be too much for outgoing president Summers. He opens his mouth, there was the devil to pay, and now Faust is in.
Could we get a lawyer named Daniel Webster to be university counsel?
Sometimes there's nothing else to say except "Bless your heart."
However, I've recently noticed, "Hey, I'm just sayin ..." being used in a similar context. It seems to mean, "You want me to shut up, but I won't, and you can't hit me, because I'm too far away, or people are watching, heeheehee."
Or "because I'm just typed words on a screen...." which is something we all need to keep in mind. That is all this is; nothing more.
She's the one on the left.
Good point.
Bio listed on the Radcliffe Institute website. She doesn't sound like the most radical of academia (compared to the truly nutty activists), by any means, but the mere fact that she was formerly Director of the Women's Studies Program at U. Penn guarantees that she has passed every PC litmus test academia can offer. She has certainly supported and defended the nutjobs, else she never would have been acceptable Penn's Women Studies Program.
http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/leadership/faust.php
Dean of the Radcliffe Institute and Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Drew Gilpin Faust became dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on January 1, 2001. She also holds an appointment as the Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.
Before coming to Radcliffe, Faust was 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.
She is the author of five books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. She is currently working on a study of the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans.
Faust is a trustee of Bryn Mawr College, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, and the National Humanities Center, and she serves on the educational advisory board of the Guggenheim Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Historical Association, vice president of the American Historical Association, and executive board member of the Organization of American Historians and the Society of American Historians. Faust has also served on numerous editorial boards and selection committees, including the Pulitzer Prize history jury in 1986, 1990, and 2004.
Faust's honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, the Society of American Historians in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. She received her bachelor's degree in 1968 from Bryn Mawr and received her master's degree (1971) and doctoral degree (1975) in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.
See also:
* From the Dean
* On-line video of Dean Drew Gilpin Faust
Dean Faust talks about the goals of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Note: you must have RealPlayer to view this file. Duration: 74 minutes.
* "Mingling Promiscuously: A History of Women and Men at Harvard," a lecture by Dean Faust to the Harvard Class of 2005.
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