Checkout our first podcast on Professor Drew Faust, the first female president of Harvard University. She is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor. Professor Faust shares her interesting life experiences and bits of wisdom/advice that we feel will be beneficial to our listeners.
Show Notes & Links Of Interest
Introduction [0:00]
Professor Faust’s bio [1:08]
Interview begins [3:59]
Question: What was her hardest things to overcome in her journey to success and how did she attack it? [4:48]
Question: How has she dealt with failure and setbacks? [6:00]
Question: What inspired her to write a letter to President Eisenhower when she was nine years old? [7:12]
Question: Was she scared to go to Selma for the civil rights march? [9:55]
Selma march in 1965
Question: What gave her the courage to attend Selma march? [11:12]
Question: Did she have an incident with a national guardsman? [12:47]
Question: What advice would you give to young women trying to get into prestigious universities like Harvard? [14:04]
Question: What women role models would she suggest? [15:16]
Question: Who was her favorite role model when she was growing up? [16:51]
Question: What advice would you give a young girl who is trying to pursue her dreams?[18:41]
Question: What word, characteristic, or trait do you think women should embrace? [20:39]
Question: What advice does she have to improve our podcast? [21:58]
Conclusion [22:19]
Professor Faust’s Bio
Drew Gilpin Faust is President Emerita of Harvard University and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor.
As president of Harvard from 2007 to 2018, Faust expanded financial aid to improve access to Harvard College for students of all economic backgrounds and advocated for increased federal funding for scientific research. She broadened the University’s international reach, led a highly successful capital campaign, raised the profile of the arts on campus, promoted diversity and inclusion, embraced sustainability, launched edX, the online learning partnership with MIT, and promoted collaboration across academic disciplines and administrative units as she guided the University through a period of significant financial challenges.
Faust previously served as founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2001-2007). Before coming to Radcliffe, she was the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
She is the author of six books, including most recently This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (2008), which chronicles the impact of the Civil War’s enormous death toll on the lives of nineteenth-century Americans. It was awarded the 2009 Bancroft Prize, the New-York Historical Society’s 2009 American History Book Prize, and was recognized by The New York Times as one of the “Ten Best Books of 2008.” This Republic of Suffering is the basis for a 2012 Emmy-nominated episode of the PBS American Experience documentaries titled Death and the Civil War, directed by Ric Burns.
Faust’s honors include awards in 1982 and 1996 for distinguished teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994, the Society of American Historians in 1993, and the American Philosophical Society in 2004. In September of 2018 she was awarded the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity by the Library of Congress. She received her bachelor’s degree from Bryn Mawr in 1968, magna cum laude with honors in history, and master’s (1971) and doctoral (1975) degrees in American civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.
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