Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Harvard's Faust Aims to Unify the School, Succeed Where Summers Failed

(Bloomberg) -- Harvard University President-elect
Drew Gilpin Faust must unify the school, a task none of her
predecessors could complete.

Harvard's ruling board urged the 59-year-old Faust to
transform the university's 11 schools into a cohesive entity from
a collection of institutions that share geography in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Greater unity has been a goal for a half-century
of leaders, including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H.
Summers, whose five-year presidency collapsed last year under
pressure from faculty members.


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