Former University President Drew Gilpin Faust retired from teaching on June 30, capping a career that has spanned nearly half a century — and vacating one of Harvard’s coveted University ...

Drew Faust has seen and done a lot — as a civil rights activist, a historian and Harvard University's former president. Her new memoir, "Necessary Trouble," looks back at her formative years in a ...

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Recent Ivy League dramas have made women leaders in academia wonder how far they’ve really come. By Kate Zernike Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. In “Necessary Trouble ...

As a child, Drew Faust already had an innate tendency towards enacting change. At the young age of eight, Faust wrote a letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, imploring him to end the racist ...

Former University President Drew Gilpin Faust offered an impassioned defense of higher education and denounced politicians for “denigrating and destroying” the academy during her keynote address to ...

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Harvard’s first woman president describes growing up in the Virginia elite, and the dean of UC Berkeley’s law school analyzes the Georgia indictments. Jon Wiener ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, INTERNATIONAL HOST: Now, our next guest is a trailblazer who served as the first female president of Harvard University. In her new memoir, Drew Gilpin Faust, shares her ...

Historian Drew Gilpin Faust will leave next year. Harvard University President Drew G. Faust will step down in June 2018 after a decade in the job. "On June 30, 2018, I will complete my eleventh year, ...

As Harvard University’s president for 11 years, Drew Gilpin Faust had a front-row seat to the challenges looming over US colleges, from declining public trust and debate over free speech, to ...

A conversation with Harvard’s first woman president about how she became a civil rights and anti-war activist. Drew Faust was the first woman president of Harvard, from 2007 to 2018. Before that, she ...