I invite you to click here and read the article from today's Financial Times. Short abstract from this article is given below:"Harvard is on the verge of naming its first female president, ending a year-long search for a new leader for the oldest and richest university in the US.
Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, is expected to be named the university’s 28th president this weekend, according to a report in the Crimson, the college’s student newspaper.
The appointment of a new president will be announced on Sunday after a special meeting of the university’s board of overseers, the alumni governing body that must approve the selection, according to a university official with knowledge of the selection process.
Ms Faust, a historian who specialises in the civil war and the US south, arrived at Harvard six years ago. Before that, Ms Faust, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her doctorate, for 25 years. She has never run a big institution. "
Photo srouce: The Harvard Crimson (online edition)
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