Harvard names veteran academic
administrator as new president
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[February 12, 2018]
(Reuters) - Harvard University on
Sunday announced that Lawrence Bacow from its Kennedy School of
Government would be its 29th president starting on July 1, calling him
one of the most experienced and respected leaders in U.S. higher
education.
Bacow, 66, previously served as president of Tufts University for a
decade. He replaces Drew Faust, the first woman to hold Harvard's top
job.
"Larry Bacow is one of the most accomplished, admired, insightful, and
effective leaders in American higher education,” said William Lee,
senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation and chair of Harvard’s
presidential search committee, said in a statement.
"He will bring to the task not only wide experience, deep expertise, and
an intimate familiarity with Harvard’s opportunities and challenges, but
also a passionate commitment to helping universities, and everyone
within them, serve the larger world," Lee said.
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Bacow, who was born in Michigan the son of immigrant parents, attended
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds three degrees from
Harvard. He spent 24 years on the MIT faculty before being named
president of Tufts.
"Those of us privileged to lead this university are invested with a
precious trust,” Bacow said in the statement. "I promise to do
everything within my power to prove worthy of it."
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Faust, the first woman to serve as president of Harvard in its
380-year history, announced last June that she would step down at
the conclusion of the next academic year.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb in Los Angeles; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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