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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You may want to revisit Lawrence Summers info. He's the one who said - in math and science - women are stoopid.
Shazam!
Yeah, that's one ugly red X.
I'm not angry; just trying to pre-empt some of the favorite observations around here. :)
The cheerful, white-haired lady in the middle?
Please stop spreading lies.
The picture showed on my connection; maybe it's your firewall or some other related problem.
Well, there's at least one version of the Soldier's Chorus online:
http://www.bobandtom.com/av/free_audio/in_praise_of_colts07.mp3
"The cheerful, white-haired lady in the middle?"
Apple pies for everyone at Harvard.
Don't know if that's sarcasm but that's not what he said. He proposed the idea that the differences in high-level achievement in math and sciences between men and women may be due to inherent biological differences. Women in the audience then succumbed to the vapors!
She has never run a major institution and did not attend Harvard, which the university usually prefers.
Given that Lawrence Summers is her predecessor, would I be a complete conspiracy-theorist in seeing this move as "forced" at just the time when Hillary! has a real possibility at the White House?
Your saying he didn't say it, or that you don't want me to repeat it?
"Given that Lawrence Summers is her predecessor, would I be a complete conspiracy-theorist in seeing this move as "forced" at just the time when Hillary! has a real possibility at the White House?"
That's exactly what I thought, but like you I didn't want to be a conspiracy-theorist.
She doesn'ts ound angry to me. Just pointing out the usual standard of behavior from too many of the boys...ummm....men?.... on this board.
It sucks. Big time.
He DIDN'T say it and you should stop putting forth that lie. I'm sure Chrissy Matthews and Tim Russert would characterize what he said very similarly to how you did. How's that feel?
I'd bet that you have completely and totally misinterpreted the poster's intent...
Harvard's New Logo: Obedience to any and all Feminazis and Islam
Drew Gilpin Faust? Are they sure she's a woman?
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