Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust

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

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

   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

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

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