Lisa Nowak?
Will she get a plane?
Board of Overseers? Now there is a loaded, non-PC moniker. How could that one pass Rev. Jackson by? A "golden" opportunity for the right race card player.
Faust, eh?
Boy, I'm curious about the details of that contract...
"What a bargain!"
Hopefully it will be Hillary!...so we won't have to deal with her.
Hervard
Recommended by Mephistopheles, no doubt.
Regards, Ivan
That was a forgone conclusion. They were ready do to anything to appease the vicious fire-spitting feminazis that caused them to get rid of the evil MALE president.
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?
Drew Gilpin Faust? Are they sure she's a woman?
Here's hoping it's Rosie O'Doughnut-she'd be perfect for it. And they probably have benefits for same sex couples.
She's an Arts & Sciences type (history) and will fit right into the mold. It was the A & S faculty that forced Summers out. Summers fit like a fist in the eye. ("Faust" is German for fist but this lady will do nothing to disturb the smothering Harvard status quo.)
Oh, whooptee dooooo....and I'm a woman.....who couldn't care less!
I wonder if she's good in math or science...
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 Wars 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.