{"id":152297,"date":"2018-02-11T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152297"},"modified":"2018-02-11T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T02:26:15","slug":"harvard-university-names-lawrence-bacow-its-29th-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/11\/harvard-university-names-lawrence-bacow-its-29th-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University names Lawrence Bacow its 29th president"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Bacow at an alumni event sponsored by the San Francisco Tufts Alliance (Photo By 48states (talk) – I created this work entirely by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BOSTON — Harvard University has named Lawrence Bacow its 29th president.<\/p>\n

Bacow served as president of Tufts University for a decade and is currently a leader-in-residence at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n

He will take over from Drew Faust, 70, who has served in the post for more than a decade as Harvard’s first female president. Bacow assumes the office July 1, when Faust steps down.<\/p>\n

Before becoming president of Tufts, Bacow spent 24 years on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as chancellor, chair of the faculty.<\/p>\n

Bacow’s appointment became official on Sunday after he was elected by the Harvard Corporation.<\/p>\n

Bacow said he sees his new post as president as an opportunity to serve.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard made me better. It was here I learned that I was a teacher at heart. It was here that I discovered that I wanted to devote my life to scholarship. It was here that I nurtured my passion for higher education. And it was here that I discovered who I really was,\u201d Bacow said during a press conference after the announcement.<\/p>\n

Bacow said he also plans to continue to work to protect students at Harvard who were brought to the country as children and living here illegally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to do everything we can to protect and support those students who are here, who know no other country,\u201d he said, pointing to his family history.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old is a native of Pontiac, Michigan, and son of immigrants — his father was a refugee from the pogroms of Eastern Europe and his mother was a survivor of Auschwitz who arrived in the United States after World War II at the age of 19, the only surviving Jewish member of her town.<\/p>\n

Bacow attended college at MIT and earned three degrees from Harvard. His interests range from environmental policy and bargaining and negotiation to economics, law and public policy<\/p>\n

He also is a recognized expert on the resolution of environmental disputes, and more recently has turned his academic focus to issues facing higher education.<\/p>\n

William Lee, chair of Harvard’s presidential search committee, called Bacow \u201cone of the most accomplished, admired, insightful, and effective leaders in American higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said Bacow will face opportunities and challenges, particularly at a time \u201cwhen the singular value of higher education and university research has too often been challenged and called into doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Faust said she could not be happier leaving Harvard in Bacow’s hands, saying he will bring \u201ca clear-eyed perspective to the challenges higher education faces at this moment, and a deep devotion to addressing them in the effort to broaden opportunity for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee said the names of more than 700 people were suggested as possible candidates for president. He said the committee consulted with a range of individuals — including faculty, students, staff and alumni — before making a final decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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