Remarks by President-Elect Drew Gilpin Faust

Remarks by President-Elect Drew Gilpin Faust

"...We are beginning an expansion into Allston that will provide the space in which to make new connections - among scientific disciplines, between teaching and scientific research, among professional schools, between the community and the University. At the same time, it offers us the ability to improve significantly the facilities for graduate and undergraduate students, for the arts and for athletics....

What Harvard does in this next decade will serve as an important part of the answer to these contradictions and challenges. What we do will determine not only whether Harvard retains its preeminence. It will help to define the character and meaning of universities for the 21st century - whether they can be supple enough, enterprising enough, ambitious enough to accomplish all that is expected of them..."