The study was based on the results of a survey of 2,148 presidents of public and private colleges and universities across the country. For more information, go to www.acenet.edu.
Patricia McGuire, president, Trinity University, says, “By illustrating the nature of pressure [the report] raises questions on how the next generation will view the job. It is a prestigious role, but comes with a lot of high pressure.”
Meanwhile, back at Harvard, Faust said Harvard had rededicated its role in the academic community at every level: with the undergraduate low-income initiative, with the commitment to bring women and minorities into science and into the professoriate more broadly, and with the school’s efforts to make the professional schools more affordable.
“I hope that my own appointment can be one symbol of an opening of opportunities that would have been inconceivable even a generation ago,” Faust said. “I am a historian. I have spent a lot of time thinking about the past, and about how it shapes the future. No university in the country, perhaps the world, has as remarkable a past as this one. And now our shared enterprise is to make Harvard’s future even more remarkable than its past.”
-- By Shilpa Banerji
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