BOSTON (Reuters) - Harvard University said on Thursday that it cannot afford to complete construction of its $1 billion science complex right now and will pause its campus expansion outside its Cambridge, Massachusetts, home. Harvard, the world's richest university with a $26 billion endowment, said it plans to complete the science complex in the Allston neighborhood of Boston to street-level early in 2010. The announcement underscores just how hard-hit Harvard was by the financial crisis... Read Full Story
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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read Full Story
The economic crisis has forced Harvard University to consider pausing a planned expansion in Boston. Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust says in a letter Wednesday that construction on a science complex in the Allston neighborhood would be slowed as the university reviews the project. The school's endowment has decreased about $8 billion in the first four months of the fiscal year to $28.7 billion. Faust says the school is examining whether to continue or pause construction or reconfigure... Read Full Story
Drew Gilpin Faust has been named the first president of Harvard University. 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. Historian Drew Gilpin Faust speaks at Harvard University in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center as she is named President of Harvard... Read Full Story
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Catching up on my reading, I found Dimitri Rotov’s post [ he r e ] on Drew Gilpin Faust’s This Republic of Suffering to be insightful . Follow his links to his previous posts as well. He suggests that Faust may step in for James McPherson as leading Civil War historian. While I gather he isn’t a fan of the latter, he seems to be of the former. I look forward to his upcoming review.
You may recall that I mentioned receiving Faust’s book in my posting here . It’s near the top of my review... Read Full Story
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