Drew Gilpin Faust
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian, college administrator and the president of Harvard University. Faust is the first woman to serve as Harvard's president and the university's 28th president overall. Faust is the fifth woman to serve as president of an Ivy League university and is the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Faust is also Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard.
Read more about Drew Gilpin Faust: Early Life and Career, Appointment As President of Harvard University, Personal Life, Honors/affiliations/awards, Selected Works
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