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...Radcliffe Institute, MacDonald says, “Faust runs one of the most powerful incubators of feminist complaint…in the country.” But in fact, Faust has steered Radcliffe away from an exclusive focus on gender studies. The number of men in the institute??s Fellows program has increased more than six-fold since 2000, the year Faust arrived. And the program now includes natural scientists and engineers who are conducting cutting-edge research that has nothing to do with “feminist complaint.” By the way, her role...
...University’s schools; established on October 1, 1999, the Institute is a by-product of the final sublimation of Radcliffe College into Harvard. Dean Faust arrived on the scene in 2001, just as Radcliffe was making the transition from “college with a research institute?? into a true Institute for Advanced Study. Today, fellows at the Radcliffe Institute are able to engross themselves in their research without some of the usual burdens of academic life. “Scholars work out at the boundaries of knowledge, take risks, break old patterns and are enabled...
Sadly, though, that does not seem to be the case. Faust’s own background in fact made her a perfect choice to lead the Radcliffe Institute??and yet a patently imperfect one to govern a university...
...within Harvard. Faust was among several other internal candidates under consideration, including University Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. NEW CHALLENGESThough Faust comes from one of the University’s smallest divisions, colleagues said she will be helped by her experience there and the institute??s interdisciplinary approach.When she took over Radcliffe in 2001, the institute faced a budget shortfall that forced Faust to slash several administrative positions, according to Crimson reports at the time.Her colleagues say that she was able to handle the situation with “compassion?...
...experience at Howard Hughes also made him an attractive candidate. As the institute??s president he has overseen the construction of a $500-million world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research...