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Remarks at Inauguration of President James Ryan, University of Virginia
October 19, 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust Governor Northam, Rector Connor, Faculty, staff, students, distinguished guests I am deeply honored to be here and to be included in this signal occasion at this great university. I am also glad to be back in Virginia. I grew up here, on a farm on the Shenandoah River up…
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Remarks upon receiving the Kluge Prize
Library of Congress As delivered. It is hard to find words to convey how honored and grateful I am to receive the Kluge Prize and how humbled I feel to be included in the pantheon of its recipients. I am delighted to be awarded this recognition by the Library of Congress, an institution that has…
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The Breakfast Club: How Faust and Walsh forged an unlikely friendship (The Boston Globe)
June 24, 2021 On Friday morning, as customers streamed into the cramped dining room of McKenna’s Cafe in Dorchester, two of the city’s most recognizable leaders sat down for one last breakfast. Amid the clatter of coffee cups and morning din, no one seemed to take much notice as Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and…
- We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up. —The New York Times…
- Director’s Lecture with Drew Gilpin Faust
University of Chicago Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society April 8, 2025 at 5:00 p.m…. - Being Underestimated Is Like A Stealth Weapon With Drew Faust – She’s Got Nerve with Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera…
- DREW GILPIN FAUST-1st female Harvard president-NECESSARY TROUBLE: Growing Up Southern in Midcentury – Terrence McNally, Let’s Tell Stories of A World that Just Might Work…
- Remarks at Awarding of the Radcliffe Medal to Neil RudenstineRemarks at Awarding of the Radcliffe Medal to Neil Rudenstine September 26, 2024 As Delivered Drew Gilpin Faust It is a wonderful privilege to have this opportunity to pay tribute a person who changed the shape of Harvard University – – not to mention my own life. In the last years of his presidency,…
- Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust on Her Memoir…
- US higher education is endangered—The Boston Globe…
- Time to stand up, defend American higher education, Faust says —The Harvard Gazette…
- “Free and Brave:” Defending Universities and the Rule of TruthPhi Beta Kappa Oration, Harvard University, May 21, 2024 , Drew Gilpin Faust I am honored to be here today celebrating your achievements and grateful for this opportunity to speak after 11 years of silence at these Literary Exercises—sitting where President Garber is right now. And I am honored to join a long line of…
- The Strange Ritual of Commencement Speeches: Where everything and nothing is at stake —The Atlantic…