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Statement on the Report of the Electronic Communications Policy Task Force
In March 2013, I convened a University-wide task force to develop recommendations for “policies regarding access to, and confidentiality of, electronic communications that rely on university information systems.” After nearly a year of deliberation and consultation, the Electronic Communications Policy Task Force, led by David Barron, the Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law…
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Statement on ASA Resolution
Academic boycotts subvert the academic freedoms and values necessary to the free flow of ideas, which is the lifeblood of the worldwide community of scholars. The recent resolution of the ASA proposing to boycott Israeli universities represents a direct threat to these ideals, ideals which universities and scholarly associations should be dedicated to defend. Cambridge,…
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Allston Update
Allston is a crucial part of our efforts to create a campus for Harvard’s next century. We have made important progress with the recent approval of the Institutional Master Plan, the opening of Tata Hall, and last week’s groundbreaking at Barry’s Corner, and I write now to update you on plans to articulate our ambitions…
- 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…