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- Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American educator and historian who was the first female president of Harvard University (2007–18).
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) [1] is an American historian who served as the 28th president of Harvard University, the first woman in that role. [2] She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South.
Sep 14, 2024 · Drew Gilpin Faust, American educator and historian who was the first female president of Harvard University (2007–18). She frequently wrote about the American Civil War, and her books included This Republic of Suffering (2008).
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Aug 16, 2023 · As president of Harvard University from 2007 to 2018, Drew Gilpin Faust was the first woman to occupy the highest bully pulpit of American higher education.
Aug 22, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust is known as a historian, a civil rights activist and the first woman president of Harvard — but she was groomed to become a proper Southern lady.
- Terry Gross
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research.
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research.
Aug 23, 2023 · Drew Gilpin Faust was only 9 years old, but her message to the president of the United States demonstrated a mature sense of justice. “Please Mr. Eisenhower,” she wrote in 1957, “please try and have schools and other things accept colored people.”
