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DREW FAUST TO STEP DOWN AS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
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June 14, 2017
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Photo 01; She plans to depart next June after 11 years of
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[1] [THE ANNOUCEMENT]
1. DREW FAUST, who became Harvard’s 28th president in 14oct2007, announced today (14jun2017) that she will step down on June 30, 2018.
2. Faust, an
acclaimed author and historian of the Civil War and the American South, and the
first woman to lead the University, announced her decision in a message to the
Harvard community.
3.
“It has been a privilege beyond words to work with all of you to lead
Harvard, in the words of her alma mater, ‘through change and through storm,’” she wrote.
4.
“We have shared ample portions of both over the last decade and have
confronted them together in ways that have made the University stronger — more
integrated both intellectually and administratively, more effectively governed,
more open and diverse, more in the world and across the world, more innovative
and experimental. The dedication of students, faculty, and staff to the ideal
and excellence of Harvard and to the importance of its pursuit of Veritas has made all this possible. I know this commitment will carry Harvard forward,
from strength to strength, in the years to come. I am deeply grateful to every
member of this community for the honor of being your president and for the
support and, indeed, joy you have given me.”
5.
Faust also wrote of “much work to be done” in the final year of her
term, saying that she looks forward to “seizing every opportunity and
confronting every challenge in the year ahead.”
6.
Faust is credited with fostering “ONE HARVARD,” academic and operational collaboration among Harvard College and the University’s
graduate and professional Schools; opening Harvard’s community to new and
diverse populations; advancing the University’s educational mission in the
arts, sciences, engineering, and the humanities; placing new emphasis on
innovation in learning and interdisciplinary programs; expanding the
institution’s global footprint; and modernizing governance and administrative
structures.
7.
A prominent national and international advocate for the mission of
American higher education, Faust also has led a record-setting capital campaign that, with a
year still remaining, has raised more than
$8 billion. Its purpose is to enhance the experiences of future generations
of students and faculty and to broaden the transformative impact of their
work and research beyond campus.
“I am deeply grateful
to every member of this community for the honor of being your president and for
the support and, indeed, joy you have given me.”
— Drew Faust
8.
In a letter to the Harvard community following
Faust’s message, WILLIAM F. LEE,
senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, said that he and his fellow
Corporation members;
“greeted this news with a number of emotions, the strongest of which was
gratitude: for her wisdom, her vision, her courage, her integrity, and her
remarkable leadership of this remarkable University.” “[Faust’s] intelligence,
her depth, her warmth, her compassion, and her extraordinary ability to
communicate — including her ability to listen to and understand what others are
saying — are evidenced in all she does, and in how she leads,” said Lee, who as
an Overseer served on the search committee that nominated Faust, then the
founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, in February 2007
to become Harvard president the following July 1. “For the last 10 years, she
has approached every day with a singular purpose: to ensure that Harvard
remains the preeminent academic institution in the world by constantly driving
Harvard forward.”
[2] A commitment to opening Harvard, and accessing
higher education
9.
From the earliest days of her presidency, Faust made attracting the best
students to Harvard regardless of their financial circumstances a fundamental
priority. In her October 2007 installation address, she asserted that
Harvard must ensure “that cost does not divert students from pursuing their
passions and their dreams.”
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Photo
02; Drew
Faust is installed as president at Tercentenary Theatre in Harvard Yard in
October 2007. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
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10. In December 2007,
Faust announced a sweeping expansion of Harvard’s undergraduate financial aid
policies, extending greater support to middle-income families despite rising
college costs. Other leading universities followed Harvard’s example,
enabling access for many students of modest means.
11. “Drew is the
quintessential principled leader. She starts with values and decisions follow,” said Clayton
Spencer, president of Bates College, who was vice president for policy at
Harvard until 2012 and worked closely with Faust on the financial aid initiative. “Within
her first six months in office, she expanded financial aid to families across
the economic spectrum to make sure that talented students, regardless of their
geography or family circumstances, would know that they were not only welcome
at Harvard, but sincerely wanted and sought after. From this early
moment, she has continued to open the gates of Harvard wider and wider.”
12. The need for generous
financial aid was heightened during the global economic crisis that erupted
early in Faust’s presidency, when many families faced challenging financial
circumstances. In 2009, as Harvard faced its own financial challenges with a 27
percent drop in the value of its endowment, Faust remained committed to
increasing financial aid, recognizing its crucial role in making Harvard
accessible. Student aid University-wide has risen every year under Faust’s leadership,
from $339 million in 2007 to $539 million in 2016.
“University
leadership is a special art, one you only fully learn on the job. In that
learning process, I have been incredibly fortunate to be able to count on Drew
Faust as a counselor, a friend — and an inspiration.”
— Rafael Reif,
president of MIT
13. Today, more than half
of Harvard College students receive need-based financial aid, and their
families pay an average of only $12,000 annually. More than three quarters of
the Class of 2016 graduated debt-free. Families with incomes up to $150,000 and
typical assets pay 10 percent or less of their annual incomes.
14. Access and
affordability have also been major focuses of the successful Harvard Campaign,
with $907 million raised so far for student financial aid.
15. Expanding access to
new and different learners around the world underpinned Faust’s drive to
partner with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 to launch edX, making Harvard an
early leader in the field of digital learning. HarvardX, which creates Harvard
programming on the edX platform, has launched almost 90 courses, with 4 million
registrations to date.
16. “University leadership is a
special art, one you only fully learn on the job. In that learning process, I
have been incredibly fortunate to be able to count on Drew Faust as a
counselor, a friend — and an inspiration,” said RAFAEL REIF,
president of MIT.
17. “My admiration grew through
working with her in 2012, as Harvard and MIT joined forces to launch the global
digital learning platform edX. At the time, edX was just an
exciting idea. Since then, it has grown to reach 11.6 million
learners, from every nation, with content from more than 100 institutions as
well as our own,” he said. “The Harvard-MIT partnership that
made edX possible would never have taken shape without Drew’s enthusiastic
backing.”
18. Beyond the gates of
Harvard Yard, Faust also has visited more than a dozen high schools around the
world to encourage students to understand the value of education and to
consider higher education as part of their future.
[3] A diverse and inclusive campus, community
19. Faust brought an
unwavering determination to make Harvard a more unified, welcoming, and inclusive community during her
tenure, both through efforts to create a more diverse faculty and student body,
and through the creation of physical spaces meant to encourage connection.
20. The undergraduate
student body is now majority minority, and one in five undergraduates at the
College comes from a household with family income below $65,000 per year.
21. According to
Harvard’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, the proportion of women
on the tenured faculty has increased by 25 percent since 2008, now representing
almost 26 percent of the total. In that same period, the proportion of
underrepresented minorities on the tenured faculty has increased by 49 percent,
representing 8 percent of the total.
22. The proportion of
tenure-track women and underrepresented minorities has increased steadily over
the past decade.
23. Faust recently
convened a University-wide Task Force on Inclusion and
Belonging to explore further ways to advance inclusion on campus. She wrote
last September that “exposure to difference fosters creativity, challenges
settled assumptions, and helps make possible the advancement of knowledge
central to our educational mission.
24. ” She continued,
“Like other educational institutions, Harvard has come to understand that the
promise of diversity requires attention beyond our hiring and admissions decisions.
It is no less important for us to create an environment on campus that is open
and inclusive and that inspires a sense of belonging for all members of our
community.”
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Photo 03; President Faust at the ROTC Commissioning Ceremony for the Class of
2014 at Tercentenary Theatre. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
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25. Faust’s efforts to
broaden inclusion were also evident in her advocacy for the repeal of the
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that banned openly gay individuals from military
service, and in her commitment to return the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to Harvard upon the policy’s
repeal.
26. In 2011, Faust signed
an agreement to bring Navy ROTC back to campus, making Harvard among the
first universities to re-establish an ROTC unit after decades of hiatus on campuses
across the country.
27. Faust said at the
signing of the agreement, “Our renewed relationship affirms the vital role that
the members of our Armed Forces play in serving the nation and securing our
freedoms, while also affirming inclusion and opportunity as powerful American
ideals. It broadens the pathways for students to participate in an honorable
and admirable calling, and in so doing advances our commitment to both learning
and service.” In the following years, Harvard formally recognized Army ROTC
(2012) and Air Force ROTC (2016).
28. In 2013, the U.S.
Department of the Navy awarded Faust the Navy Distinguished Public Service
Award, its highest civilian honor, for the “selfless determination” she
displayed in leading the move to formal recognition of ROTC.
29. Former Secretary of
the Navy Ray E. Mabus, who worked with Faust to reinstate Navy ROTC, told the
Harvard Crimson this spring that Faust was “very clear, very straightforward,
and outlined exactly the steps it would take and what each of our responsibilities
were.” He said, “I could not ask for a better leader or a better partner in
bringing ROTC back to campus.”
30. Faust also initiated
an effort to understand more deeply Harvard’s historical connections to slavery and
was joined by civil rights leader and U.S. Rep. John Lewis in 2016 to dedicate
a plaque honoring four enslaved individuals — Titus, Venus, Bilhah, and Juba —
who lived and worked in Wadsworth House during the 18th-century
tenures of Harvard presidents Benjamin Wadsworth and Edward Holyoke.
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Photo 04; U.S. Rep. John Lewis and President Faust with the Harvard Kuumba
Singers at an April 2016 ceremony honoring four enslaved people who lived and
worked at Wadsworth House. Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer
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31. “The plaque is
intended to remember and honor them and to remind us that slavery was not an
abstraction, but a cruelty inflicted on particular humans. We name the names to
remember those stolen lives,” said Faust.
32. Lewis followed,
noting that “we have to disturb the order of things … to bring truth to light,”
and that it was “fitting and most appropriate that Harvard University, the
first college in the nation, pause and pay tribute to the lives of these slaves
who served the University … with great distinction.”
33. He went on to thank
Faust for her “courage and leadership.” “Thank you for never, ever, giving up,”
he said, “or giving in, but keeping the faith by giving these souls some of the
dignity and the honor they did not receive in life, but have deserved for
centuries.”
34. The ceremony was the
first activity in an ongoing, research-driven program to chronicle the
contributions that enslaved individuals made at Harvard. A conference on the topic of universities
and slavery followed this March, and a faculty committee will continue to
research and advise the University on the issue.
35. Faust also sought to
bring the community together through the physical spaces on campus. In 2008,
she announced a Common Spaces initiative, which she called “an effort to create
new spaces that will draw our increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary
community together and enhance the intellectual, social, and cultural life that
is at the core of the Harvard experience.”
36. Over the following
nine years, the program reshaped much of the campus, including the addition of
colorful chairs to Harvard Yard each spring, the Pritzker Commons, and the
Plaza at the Science Center. The revitalized Richard A. and Susan F. Smith
Campus Center, scheduled to reopen in 2018, will be a cornerstone of the
initiative and a vital hub for the community, with flexible indoor gathering,
study, and food areas, as well as space for exhibitions, events, and
performances.
37. The growth of
Harvard’s campus in recent years has been accompanied by a significant
commitment to sustainability. Faust set out ambitious greenhouse gas reduction
goals for the institution in 2008, aiming to reduce emissions, including those
associated with prospective campus growth, by 30 percent — relative to its 2006
baseline — by 2016.
38. “Our responsibility
to future generations demands that we approach this problem with the
seriousness of purpose it deserves and with the cooperative spirit essential to
progress,” Faust said at the time.
39. Last December, the
University announced it had met its goal, with Faust saying
“common purpose has brought our community together in exciting new ways.” A
University-wide Climate Change Task Force is currently charged with developing
a new set of recommendations.
[4] Advancing Harvard’s academic mission
40. The inclusive concept
of “One Harvard” became a driving
force behind Faust’s presidency, manifesting itself powerfully in the
integration of academic programs and initiatives across Harvard’s historically
decentralized Schools.
41. “In regular
conversations with the Council of Deans and in the programmatic expansions she
personally supported with President’s Funds, Drew constantly challenged us to
make Harvard more than the sum of its parts,” said University of
Miami President Julio Frenk, formerly dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health.
42. “How can we enrich
this area of inquiry across disciplines? How can we enable more of our students
to take advantage of more of Harvard? She constantly pressed us on this, and
many new and novel programs and partnerships are the direct result.”
43. The number of School
cross-registrations has increased steadily over the past several years,
reflecting a broader commitment to academic collaboration across the
University. Examples include University-wide programs such as the Harvard
University Center for the Environment, the South Asia Institute, and the Center
for African Studies, as well as a series of new joint degrees, including the
recently announced dual master’s degree program in Engineering, Design, and
Innovation Management, a collaboration between Harvard Business School and the
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
“In regular
conversations with the Council of Deans and in the programmatic expansions she
personally supported with President’s Funds, Drew constantly challenged us to
make Harvard more than the sum of its parts.”
— Julio Frenk,
president of the University of Miami
44. The sciences have
flourished at Harvard under Faust’s leadership, with $2.9 billion raised to
support them as part of the Harvard Campaign, the establishment of the Wyss
Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the Ragon Institute with
MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital, and the strengthening and expansion of
flagship initiatives such as the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Broad
Institute, in partnership with MIT.
45. Since Harvard
engineering was elevated to School status in 2007, Faust has overseen the
evolution and growth of what became the Harvard John A. Paulson School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences. She has administered the formation of
cross-University initiatives in the sciences, including a Data Science
Initiative, the Harvard Global Health Initiative, and the Climate Change
Solutions Fund, which has supported 25 projects since its founding in 2014.
46. From the outset of
her presidency, Faust set a course to put the arts — in all forms — at the
center of University life, asking a cross-disciplinary Task Force on the Arts
to examine their role at Harvard, including connections between arts activities
and science, technology, the humanities, and other fields.
47. Addressing the
recommendations of the task force in December 2008, Faust said, “In prose both
elegant and forceful, the report calls for Harvard to end the ‘curricular
banishment’ of the arts and recognize that they belong at the core of the
University’s educational mission.’’
48. Many of the group’s
recommendations have been implemented, and the arts have become a more powerful
presence at Harvard within and beyond the curriculum.
49. An undergraduate
track in architecture developed jointly by the Harvard Graduate School of
Design and the Department of History of Art and Architecture was introduced in
2012, and a new Theater, Dance & Media
concentration was launched in 2015 to encourage students to become art makers
and researchers across theater, dance, and performance-based media by drawing
on the University’s unparalleled resources, from the Harvard Library’s Theatre
Collection to the American Repertory Theater.
50. The new
Harvard/Berklee College of Music program allows students to earn both a
bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a master’s from Berklee over five years, and
an Art, Design, and the Public Domain program created by the Graduate School of
Design seeks individuals from all backgrounds with an interest in contemporary
issues of urban, historical, aesthetic, and technological culture.
51. Harvard’s curricular
ambitions for the arts have been matched by a commitment to physical spaces and
activity beyond the classroom, notably the major renovation and reopening in 2014 of the
Harvard Art Museums that united the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum,
and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one glass roof designed by Pritzker
Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano, as well as the opening that same year
of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art at the Hutchins
Center, featuring contemporary and historical exhibitions and installations of
African and African American art.
52. The University also
has enhanced efforts to recruit and support leading faculty artists, including
Diane Paulus, Vijay Iyer, Jill Johnson, Claire Messud, and Krzysztof Wodiczko,
and to bring artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, and Liz Lerman to
campus for innovative residency programs.
[5] Innovation in teaching and learning
53. In 2010, Faust
approached Rita and Gus Hauser about supporting a new initiative to spark and
spread innovation in the classroom and beyond, and in 2011 the Harvard Initiative for Learning and
Teaching was launched.
54. HILT has since awarded 90 project grants, including support for a program
designed to create and evaluate portable teaching kits to convert any space
into a flexible learning environment, and for an effort to explore the medium
of sound for conveying knowledge.
55. The University also
advanced its ventures in the digital delivery of knowledge under Faust’s
leadership through edX and HarvardX. In addition to reaching millions of new
learners around the world, HarvardX, with its rich trove of data about learning, will provide
critical research on how digital technologies can help students to succeed.
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Photo 05; Then-MIT Provost Rafael Reif
(left), then-MIT President Susan Hockfield, President Faust, MIT Professor
Anant Agarwal, and Harvard Provost Alan Garber announce the launch of edX in
May 2012. Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer
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56. Faust also has
invested in and encouraged the growth of hands-on, experiential learning.
The Harvard Teacher Fellows program, led by the Harvard
Graduate School of Education, offers teacher preparation for Harvard College
seniors who intend to become middle and high school teachers, including a year
of field-based training in school districts around the country.
57. The HBS FIELD (Field
Immersion Experiences in Leadership Development) program required of first-year
MBA candidates also exemplifies the new commitment to on-the-ground learning
across Harvard. Designed as a complement to the renowned case method, the
yearlong course deploys students to real-world situations around the globe,
providing them with meaningful opportunities to lead and to translate their
ideas into practice.
58. The Harvard Kennedy
School launched the Strengthen Learning and Teaching Excellence (SLATE)
initiative in 2007 to enhance teaching throughout the School.
59. The College, the
Graduate School of Education, Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School, and
the Chan School have also undertaken significant curriculum changes during
Faust’s tenure, taking advantage of her commitment to a dynamic and innovative
academic environment dedicated to meeting the changing needs and expectations
of today’s students. The College also overhauled its undergraduate religion
concentration in collaboration with Harvard Divinity School.
60. Faust also oversaw
the implementation of a coordinated academic calendar in 2009-2010, aligning
the schedules of Harvard’s Schools and creating the opportunity for innovative
programming throughout January. At the College, for instance, Wintersession gives
undergraduates the chance to participate in non-credit enrichment programming
that encourages personal reflection, intellectual curiosity, and social
interaction.
[6] Engineering, innovation in Allston and beyond
61. Nowhere will
Harvard’s academic ambitions be more visibly on display in the coming years
than in Allston, the Boston
neighborhood that is currently home to Harvard Business School and Harvard
athletics programs and facilities. A new Science and Engineering Complex that
will serve as the primary home of the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences is under construction, a 500,000-square-foot facility that
will cement Harvard’s—and Allston’s—position as a vibrant innovation hub.
62. Plans for development
in Allston were paused by Faust in 2010, citing what she called in a letter to
the Harvard community and its neighbors the “altered financial landscape of the
University, and the wider world.”
63. “The finest leaders
in the financial crisis were those who didn’t just accumulate the right
information, but then actually had the courage and the vision to go ahead and
make real determined, active decisions. And Drew did that,” said Edward Forst,
former executive vice president at Harvard. “What is emerging now in Allston is
a vibrant, dynamic innovation hub that will position Harvard and the wider
region well for the future.”
“Drew is the
quintessential principled leader. She starts with values and decisions follow.”
— Clayton Spencer,
president of Bates College
64. Community engagement,
property stewardship, and campus planning have continued in Allston. With a new
10-year institutional master plan approved in 2013, the emergence of the
Harvard Innovation Labs, a residential development, and the Science and
Engineering Complex that will open by 2020, locating engineering and applied
sciences directly across from the Business School, progress in Allston is
moving apace under Faust’s leadership.
65. The Science and Engineering
Complex will be the latest evidence of her support for the growth of
engineering at Harvard. There are three times as many concentrators in the
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences today as in 2007, up from 310 to
972, and there are four times as many women concentrators as a decade ago.
66. Faust has emphasized
engineering and computer science as part of the Harvard Campaign, with a
transformational $400 million gift by John A.
Paulson and a gift by Steve Ballmer that will increase Harvard’s computer
science faculty by 50 percent.
67. Faust also has
deepened Harvard’s commitment to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation,
initiating a number of accelerator programs that connect innovators to industry
in a wide range of fields and harnessing the power of Harvard’s innovation community
through the i-lab innovation cluster in Allston.
68. The i-lab; the Launch
Lab, which supports alumni ventures; and the new Pagliuca Life Lab have helped
75 young companies make it to market in the less than six years since the first
lab opened.
[7] A more global Harvard
69. Faust also has led a
significant expansion of Harvard’s global presence while eschewing the trend
toward international campuses. She set a course for Harvard to be what she
termed “intentionally global” by
supporting international faculty initiatives and growing strategically sited
global research centers in Asia, Africa,
Europe, and Latin America. Nine such research centers opened under her
tenure.
70. “In an era in which
knowledge is the world’s most valuable resource, we seek to create the largest
intellectual footprint with the smallest physical footprint,” she said in 2012.
71. International
experiences for students have also been boosted during Faust’s presidency,
highlighted by the HBS FIELD program
and a $70 million gift by alumnus and philanthropist DAVID ROCKEFELLER to provide financial support for experiences abroad
to hundreds of undergraduates who might not otherwise be able to afford to
participate.
72. Faust also deployed
the President’s Innovation Fund for
International Experience to support innovative undergraduate programming
developed by Harvard’s international centers and graduate and professional
Schools.
73. Harvard’s global
research programs have grown dramatically in recent years. In 2015, the Harvard Global Institute was created to encourage
and fund research on topics that transcend disciplinary and regional
boundaries, such as climate change, urbanization, education, water, and
migration. The first research program supported by HGI is a multi-year effort
to investigate climate change, energy security, and sustainable
development in China, with 17 Harvard faculty from five Schools working closely
with counterparts in China.
[8] A campaign dedicated to impact
74. Faust will step down
as president as the Harvard Campaign concludes on June 30, 2018. Publicly
launched in 2013, the campaign has raised $8 billion and has been a broad and
inclusive effort, with more than 500,000 gifts from 137,000 households in 170
countries.
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Photo 06; Drew Faust speaks during The
Harvard Campaign launch inside Sanders Theatre. Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer
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75. Key University
priorities have been boosted by Faust’s fundraising efforts throughout the
campaign. A total of $907 million has been given to support financial aid
across the University, while $2.9 billion has been raised for the University’s
science Schools and initiatives, and $364 million for the arts.
76. Campaign gifts will
support 117 professorships across the Schools and disciplines. The campaign is
changing the face of the campus as well. Renewal of Harvard’s undergraduate Houses has been a key
priority, with Lowell House the latest to be renovated, slated for completion
by fall 2019.
77. The Harvard Kennedy
School campus is being entirely renewed thanks to philanthropy, while gifts for
the Smith Campus Center and the Business School have added significant new
convening spaces.
78. Two of Harvard’s
Schools have been named for donors. PAULSON,
an HBS alumnus, donated the $400 million to the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences as it began to plan its move to its primary new home across
from the Business School in Allston, and a
$350 million gift by the family of the late T.H. CHAN will likewise
support the work of the School of Public Health in perpetuity.
79. “By any measure, the campaign has
been a terrific success and is an endorsement of Drew’s leadership, her vision,
and her team,” said Paul Finnegan, University treasurer and co-chair of
the University-wide Campaign Executive Committee. “Importantly, it has
demonstrated the growing strength and potential of ‘One Harvard.’”
80. “We look forward to a strong final
year of the campaign under Drew’s leadership,” said Finnegan.
81. The campaign also has
inspired enthusiastic volunteerism by alumni and friends, and engaged more than
4,300 of them at 14 “Your Harvard” events around the world, including in
Berlin, London, Mexico City, and Singapore, as well as Miami, New York, and
Boston. The series continues later this month when Faust meets alumni in
Minnesota.
[9] Modernization of management, governance
82. Faust oversaw a
far-reaching modernization of Harvard’s management and governance, revamping
structures initially created for a 17th-century institution for what
she and then-Corporation senior fellow Robert Reischauer called in a 2010
letter to the Harvard community a “vastly larger, more ambitious, and more
diverse University in the 21st.”
83. Faust embarked on an
ambitious effort to streamline administrative architecture and improve business
practices, bringing finance, information technology, human resources, campus
services, and other administrative functions under an executive vice president.
These “One Harvard” reforms introduced University-wide capital planning and
multi-year budgeting and became critical factors in the University’s
effective response to the financial crisis.
84. Faust also led a
governance reform effort that introduced historic changes to Harvard’s highest
governing body, the Harvard Corporation. With a recognition of the increasing
complexity of managing 21st-century Harvard — a $4-billion-a-year
operation — the board was expanded from seven to 13 members with defined terms
of service, and three new standing committees were introduced to ensure
attention to core areas of fiduciary concern, including finance,
facilities and capital planning, and governance.
85. “The reform of
Harvard’s governance structures, while little noticed beyond Harvard, might be
among the most far-reaching, consequential and lasting initiatives undertaken
by Drew during her presidency,” said Reischauer, who partnered with Faust
during implementation of the reforms. “Modernizing the governance of an
institution that has over 300 years of history is inherently a complex and
intricate undertaking, but Drew’s steady leadership and clearly articulated
view of the positive long-term effects these changes could have for Harvard set
the institution on a path that has made for more informed deliberation and
better long-term, strategic decision making.”
86. Harvard’s
globally renowned libraries were also
streamlined under Faust’s leadership, bringing them together under the Harvard
Library structure to ensure greater collaboration and enable more effective and
efficient adoption of new technologies in the library system.
87. The University also
recently appointed Narv Narvekar as chief executive officer of Harvard
Management Company, which oversees the Harvard endowment. Faust noted in
announcing Narvekar’s appointment that HMC plays a “critically important role
in supporting the students, faculty, and staff who advance the teaching and
research mission of the University.” Narvekar has introduced a set of sweeping
reforms at HMC designed to strengthen the endowment’s performance.
[10] Strong public advocate for higher education
88. Faust has also been
widely acknowledged as a powerful public advocate for higher education,
advancing arguments to support the liberal arts, the humanities, scientific
research, and immigration policies that allow talented individuals to come to
America’s universities.
89. Using her voice as
Harvard’s president to reinforce the value and importance of a liberal arts
education in a 2016 speech at the U.S.
Military Academy, Faust said that an understanding of humanity — developed best
through a broad-based liberal arts education — is at the heart of leadership.
She argued that, as students encounter the humanities, they come to understand
the wisdom of historical figures, the intellectual acuity that underlies
decision-making, and the language that inspires others toward progress.
90. “Such inquiry teaches
us how to scrutinize the thing at hand, even in the thick dust of danger or
drama or disorienting strangeness,” Faust said at West Point. “It imparts
skills that slow us down — the habit of deliberation, the critical eye, skills
that give us capacity to interpret and judge human problems, the concentration
that yields meaning in a world that is noisy with information, confusion, and
change.”
91. This year, Faust has
dedicated a significant portion of her time to federal advocacy, visiting
Washington, D.C., three times since January, connecting with dozens of members
of Congress, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker
Paul Ryan, to advance the University’s position on scientific research funding,
tax reform, and immigration policies that would affect the Harvard community.
She is a vocal advocate for the DREAM
Act, which would help undocumented individuals find a path to college and
citizenship.
92. Faust has
expressed serious concerns about the
recent executive order seeking to restrict travel to the United States, saying,
“Our robust commitment to internationalism is not an incidental or dispensable
accessory. It is integral to all we do, in the laboratory, in the classroom, in
the conference hall, in the world. It fuels the capacity of universities to
spur innovation, to advance scholarship and scientific discovery, and to help
address society’s hardest challenges.”
93. Officials in higher
education lauded a $2 billion increase in funding for the National Institutes
of Health in a recently passed federal fiscal 2017 budget, a key priority of
Faust’s advocacy efforts. She also wrote a strong defense of the National
Endowment for the Humanities in the New York Times in March, citing the ways
the NEH contributes to the fabric of American society.
94. “I have been deeply
impressed with President Faust’s wide-ranging leadership on the national
stage,” said MIT president Reif. “Since 2010, long before the issue made the
headlines, she has been an outspoken advocate for the
undocumented students known as DREAMers.
95. For years, she has
spoken and written eloquently about the profound value of the arts and
humanities, and with equal conviction about the central importance of
science and innovation. And in recent months especially, she has been on
the ground in Washington, arguing thoughtfully but relentlessly
for preserving the global flow of creative talent and sustaining our
national investments in research and education.”
96. Harvard’s
relationships with its host communities have been a priority for Faust, as she
helped to establish Harvard’s position as a strong, trusted partner with the
state of Massachusetts and the cities of Boston and Cambridge. She has brought
Harvard’s educational mission into communities through increased educational
programming to support lifelong learning, public school partnerships that
support local teachers, and engagement with community groups.
97. The Harvard Education Portal, which opened in 2008 and moved to a new, custom-built facility in 2015,
is a central community hub for Harvard programming in Allston-Brighton, acting
as a front door to the University’s educational, cultural, arts, and
recreational resources.
“… working with and
beside her has been one of the most extraordinary and rewarding experiences of
my career.”
— William F. Lee,
senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation
98. “In this space, where the emerging
Harvard campus meets the Allston neighborhood, collaboration and breakthroughs
will occur that will be transformative to Allston, Boston, and Harvard,”
said Faust during the opening of the reimagined Ed Portal in 2015. “My
predecessor, President Charles W. Eliot, said in 1909 that education ‘should be
the work of the whole life.’ He could not have imagined this space, but he
would be in full support of its transformative work.”
99. In his message to the
community thanking Faust for her contributions and looking to the year ahead,
Lee, Harvard Corporation senior fellow, said, “In the coming weeks, the
Corporation will assemble a search committee and we will have more to say about
that process. Like Drew, we recognize that there is much still to be
done, and many challenges for higher education in general and Harvard in
particular.”
100.
He concluded, “For today, I wanted each of you
to know that working with and beside her has been one of the most extraordinary
and rewarding experiences of my career. I hope you will join my fellow
Corporation members and me in offering President Faust our profound thanks and
deep admiration for leading this venerable University ‘through change and
through storm.’”
Ø Harvard names
Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president
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