Today is the big day: the installation of Drew Faust as president of Harvard.

Here's the Globe on context:

Faust, 60, faces high expectations that she can move Harvard forward with a more conciliatory approach than her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers. Summers, an economist and former secretary of the Treasury, ended his tenure in early 2006 after five years, the shortest stint for a Harvard president in 144 years.

("Ended his tenure"?)

According to the Globe, Harvard faculty want Faust to.... 1) make the faculty and administration more diverse 2) unify Harvard 3) emphasize teaching

The Crimson suggests that Faust will continue to avoid talking specifically about her priorities, as she has done ever since she was appointed.

Faust will probably appeal to the University’s 371-year history when she takes the stage for her installation today. She will probably note Harvard’s responsibility as a leader in higher education. And she will probably restate her commitment to breaking down barriers across the University. But one thing she still won’t do is present a comprehensive agenda for her presidency.

Peter Gomes and Neil Rudenstine both say that vagueness is a good idea at such a time. "All you’ll do is give your enemies a shopping list with which to do you in," Gomes says.

Derek Bok and Neil Rudenstine say they shied away from giving her advice, because that could be tough for the speaker. (Chivalrous of them. But would they say the same of a man?)

Here are a couple of themes that I would think important for DGF to address, but which she probably won't:

1) Elevating the importance of scholarship at a place that is more and more about money

1a) Doing what she can to address the fact that the public perception of Harvard is increasingly as an economic institution—how rich the university is, how rich its graduates are. 2) A discussion of the relationship between the sciences and the humanities, and ways in which the importance of the humanities can be shored up 3) The importance of universities and their presidents during a time of war and national self-doubt

Here are a couple of themes that I would think unimportant for DGF to address, but which she probably will:

1) the fact that she's a woman 2) anything to do with bridges

Best of luck to President Faust—it's a gray day here in NYC, and I hope the weather is better up there.