Dear Members of the Harvard Community: We are deeply grateful to law enforcement officials from Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown and from across the state and nation for their apprehension last evening of the surviving suspect in the marathon bombing. Yesterday was a harrowing day in a week of tragedy, suffering, and uncertainty—as well as courage…
Welcome, Class of 2017
Dear Members (I Hope) of the Harvard Class of 2017: I had hoped to spend a part of my Saturday with many of you, deploying all the wit and charm I could muster to persuade you to make Harvard your home for the next four years. I had hoped to regale you with a few…
A Message from the President: Monday’s Events in Boston
Dear Members of the Harvard Community: Yesterday was a day of unspeakable sadness for all of us in and around Boston, and for everyone gathered to celebrate what has been for so many years a great day on the calendar of a great city. As is by now well known, at approximately 2:50 p.m., two…
The newest revolution in higher ed
This op-ed originally appeared in The Boston Globe on March 3, 2013. By Drew Faust and L. Rafael Reif In 1837, the Massachusetts Board of Education devoted part of its first annual report to praising a recent classroom innovation called the blackboard. This “invaluable and indispensible” innovation enabled the “rapid and vivid communication of knowledge.” It…
Drew Faust interview on NDTV: Knowledge is the currency of the 21st century
https://www.ndtv.com/video/business/ndtv-davos/knowledge-is-the-currency-of-21st-century-drew-gilpin-faust-262970 Davos 2013…
Drew Faust appears on CNBC with Maria Bartiromo
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2013/01/11/college-worth-the-price-of-admission-.html?play=1 CNBC On the Money with Maria Bartiromo…
Announcing HGSE Dean Search
Dear Colleagues and Friends, As you know, Kathy McCartney will be concluding her service as dean of the Graduate School of Education at the end of the spring term, having been named to become president of Smith College next July. Kathy has led the Ed School with extraordinary energy and effectiveness since 2005. It will…
Statement on the Report on the Study of Religion at Harvard
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, As many of you know, last fall I asked a group of distinguished scholars to offer me their advice on how we might strengthen the study of religion at Harvard. Today, I write to share a report of their observations and suggested approaches. The report, which is grounded in…