As Drew Gilpin Faust prepares to take Harvard’s
helm, the president-elect remains a little-known
figure to many faculty, students, and alumni.
How did the Civil War historian and Radcliffe dean
make her way to the top of the world’s most powerful
university? And what does she intend to do now
that she’s there? Richard Bradley reports on the big
questions surrounding Harvard’s new president.
Not many people know just what the Harvard Corporation does, and that's exactly how the group's seven members like it. But after Lawrence Summers's departure, can Harvard's ruling council maintain its wall of silence, even as it handpicks the university's next president? An inside look at the power behind Harvard's throne.
