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  • Official Book Publication Date

    Tuesday, August 22, 2023 See the book on the publishers website….

  • Remembering Not to Forget: Reflections on the Last Half Century of Women at Penn

    Phoebe S. LeBoy Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, October 25, 2022, Drew Gilpin Faust It is a real pleasure to be back at Penn and to be speaking in honor and memory of Phoebe LeBoy.  Phoebe was a force, a figure in Penn’s history whose service and commitment profoundly changed the landscape for women at the…

  • Humility, Hope, and the Work of Becoming Educated

    A Talk Prepared for the Series “What Does it Mean to be Educated?” Brigham Young University, March 2021, Drew Gilpin Faust During our first week of college in 1964, my freshman class gathered in a cavernous auditorium designed to look like a medieval hall to hear an address from the college president. The ceremony was…