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Faust and Napolitano are both vocal supporters of the DREAM Act Support for the Dream Act has drawn another commanding voice in the form of Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University. The President of Harvard University acknowledged the need to address US immigration issues associated with past and present students, who through no fault of their own are stuck in legal limbo as illegal citizens wanting to graduate from college and get a good job. “I believe it is in our best interest to educate all students to their full potential - it vastly improves their lives and grows our communities and economy,” ... Read Full Story
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Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust began her tenure in 2007 when the university's prosperity seeemed limitless. With its ballooning wealth, Harvard planned almost frenzied growth, from a building boom into Boston to vast increases in financial aid for students. Billions of lost endowment dollars later, though, Faust faces a much different reality. The university estimated a 30 percent endowment drop for the fiscal year that ended last week. Much of Faust's time now is spent figuring out how Harvard can weather the downturn, through layoffs, early retirement packages, cuts in services, even changes to breakfast menus for undergraduates. Faust says her presidency is like ... Read Full Story
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   Dear Harvard Alumni and Friends: Earlier today I wrote to the Harvard community here on campus about the current global financial situation and its effect on the University. Now I write to share that letter with you, our loyal alumni and friends. Sincerely,  Drew Gilpin Faust ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Harvard Faculty, Students, and Staff: I write today about the global economic crisis and its implications for us at Harvard. We all know of the extraordinary turbulence still roiling the world's financial markets and the broader economy. The downturn is widely seen as the most serious in decades, and each day's headlines remind us that ... Read Full Story
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We have to have zero tolerance. Any example of racism is one example too much, from the police or any other sector of Harvard University. –Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as quoted in Friday’s Boston Globe Last spring a group of Harvard’s Black student organizations held an end-of-year field day on Radcliffe Quad. Students picnicked, played capture the flag, and ran relay races. A good time was had by all…until two Harvard Police officers drove up on motorcycles and asked whether or not this group of Black men and women was actually authorized to be on the Harvard campus. It turns out that a student ... Read Full Story
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Pamela Cortland at Alfred A. Knopf Publishing (an imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House) has given me the opportunity to review on Wig Wags what looks like a fascinating book. I should have it in hand by early next week but wanted to go ahead and make a quick comment. Format: Hardcover, 368 pages On Sale: January 8, 2008 Price: $27.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-40404-7 (0-375-40404-X) T h is Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust is a study of how the country came to terms with the 620,000 deaths that resulted from the Civil War. Given ... Read Full Story
It is a surprising title for this interview, considering the intense secrecy with which Harvard's guards its plans here in Allston and "communicate, communicate, communicate” is certainly not the mantra of the Allston Development Group.The morsel that seems most consistent with Harvard's situation in Allston is this idea that Faust got from HBS Prof Michael Porter - “Strategy is what you choose not to do.”Corner Office - Drew Gilpin Faust...  
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Date of Event:October 14, 2008 Speakers:Jay O. Light, Dean of HBSDrew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. President Faust reflected on Harvard Business School's past 100 years and shared a visionary perspective for the types of leaders that the School should aspire to...  
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Faust says Harvard assessing options on science complex - Local News Updates - The Boston GlobeHarvard President Drew Faust said this morning that the university is in the midst of re-assessing options for its long-planned expansion into Allston, including the possibility of "re-imagining" the $1 billion science complex at the heart of the project as the university grapples with its new financial realities....during an impromptu meeting with...  
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Harvard University GazetteHarvard's Faust Plots Course for 'Unified' School in CrisisBloomberg25 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University President Drew Faust is pushing to knock down traditional budgeting barriers among the school's independent divisions, ...Faust Addresses Future of Univ.Harvard CrimsonIn Hard Times, Harvard Takes a Hard Look at 30 Shades of CrimsonChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)all 5 news articles »  
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Keywords: Women's History Month, women facts, diversity facts ...DiversityInc.com (subscription)In 2007, Harvard University named Drew Gilpin Faust its first woman president in the school's 371-year history. Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to ...  
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UNM Daily LoboStudents rally for change to US immigration policyGainesville SunA handful of education officials, including Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, have previously came out in support of the DREAM Act. As Utah ...Students assemble to back a DREAMUT The Daily Texanall 46 news articles »  
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)The 'Veritas' About HarvardChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)In June 2008, at the apex of the endowment's illusory height, President Drew Gilpin Faust of Harvard dedicated much of her first commencement address to ...and more »  
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