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2018 Commencement Speech
As delivered. Thank you, Susan, for those generous words, and thanks to everyone for that generous welcome. Heartfelt congratulations to you, our graduates, and to your families for the hard work and many accomplishments that have brought you to this day. I am especially grateful to John Lewis for sharing his inspiring words and presence…
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2018 Remarks at ROTC Commissioning Ceremony
TERCENTENARY THEATRE, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Secretary Carter, Lt. Col. Godfrin, Lt. Col. Ott, Capt. Horten. Commissionees. Families and friends. Last January I received a mysterious package in the mail. I opened it to find a gift from a Marine Corps captain who had been commissioned here on this stage in 2010. Capt. Shawna Sinnott wrote to…
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2018 Baccalaureate Service: “To Catch Fire and Light the World”
Memorial Church, Cambridge, Mass., May 22, 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust Greetings, Harvard College Class of 2018! And congratulations! What a privilege it is to be here with you today, in this hectic, joyous, scary, hopeful, and glorious week, as you prepare to pass through the gates into the company of educated persons. Four years ago,…
- 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
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- 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…