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“Showing Us How to Do It”: Remarks by Drew Gilpin Faust for the inauguration of Paula A. Johnson as president of Wellesley College
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., September 30, 2016 As delivered. Thank you faculty, students, staff, distinguished guests, and friends. What an honor and a personal pleasure it is to be here today, to extend to Dr. Paula Johnson the greetings of her fellow college and university presidents. When Paula Johnson was a girl in Brooklyn dreaming…
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University-wide Inclusion and Belonging Task Force
Dear Members of the Harvard Community, Harvard’s commitment to excellence is deeply connected to our efforts to attract students, faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds, life experiences, and perspectives. Exposure to difference fosters creativity, challenges settled assumptions, and helps make possible the advancement of knowledge central to our educational mission. Equally important is our responsibility…
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Claiming Full Citizenship
The Harvard Crimson Op Ed On my desk sits a copy of a photograph published last May in the Boston Globe. Outside Mass. Hall, a young woman stands amid a crowd of students protesting the newly announced College policy on single-gender social organizations. The sign she carries proclaims: I SHOULD’VE GONE TO BRYN MAWR. The…
- 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…