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University President Drew G. Faust spent eight days of her spring break meeting with top government and education leaders in Japan and China, underscoring the University’s efforts to bolster its international presence...
Spending the bulk of her time in Japan, Faust met with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to discuss the declining number of Japanese students studying at American universities—something Hatoyama, who studied at Stanford, said he wished to address, according to Harvard history professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74, who participated in the meeting...
...globalization goal to attract the very best talent from around the world,” said Susan J. Pharr, a professor of Japanese politics and director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, who accompanied Faust on the trip. “Having the president go to Japan is a way to deepen the relationship, and to make sure that Harvard is well known in Japan...
Faust left Japan for a two-day stint in China, where she celebrated the opening of the Harvard Center Shanghai—Harvard Business School’s first international teaching facility—which will function as a home for the school’s executive education programs in China as well as collaborative work between faculty at Harvard and Chinese universities...
...addition to her usual meetings with international alumni, Faust stopped by a girls’ high school in Japan to discuss challenges that continue to face women in the workplace—continuing her tradition of raising women’s issues while visiting schools for girls abroad, which she did most recently on her November trip to South Africa and Botswana...