Drew Gilpin Faust
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and author who served as the 28th president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She was Harvard's first female president, its first president since 1672 without a Harvard undergraduate or graduate degree, and the first to have been raised in the South.
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I believe that affirmative action has changed the shape of and the landscape of higher education in a way that we need to continue. The past is with us.
Harvard's Drew Gilpin Faust says history should make us uncomfortable (August 22, 2023)
I am not the woman president of Harvard. I am the president of Harvard.
Quoted in Thoughts on gender equality, by Forbes India (23 Jul 2020)
The story of Virginia compels us to recognize how important it is that we open our eyes and actively resist the assumptions and traditions that would obscure our vision.
Race, History, and Memories of a Virginia Girlhood, The Atlantic, (August 2019)
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and author who served as the 28th president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018. She was Harvard's first female president, its first president since 1672 without a Harvard undergraduate or graduate degree, and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust was also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She was repeatedly named one of the world's 100 most powerful women by Forbes, reaching as high as 33rd in 2014.
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