{"id":238211,"date":"2018-02-11T20:33:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=238211"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T01:00:01","slug":"bacow-named-harvard-president-meets-the-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/02\/bacow-named-harvard-president-meets-the-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press"},"content":{"rendered":"<header\n\tclass=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-article-header alignfull article-header is-style-full-width-text-below centered-image\"\n\tstyle=\" \"\n>\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"1667\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/021118_president_bacow_10911.jpg\" width=\"2500\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><p class=\"wp-element-caption--credit\">Kris Snibbe\/Harvard Staff Photographer<\/p><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\t<div class=\"article-header__content\">\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\tclass=\"article-header__category\"\n\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\tCampus &amp; Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t<h1 class=\"article-header__title wp-block-heading \">\n\t\tBacow, named Harvard president, meets the press\t<\/h1>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<div class=\"article-header__meta\">\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\">\n\t\t\t<address class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"author wp-block-post-author__name\">\n\t\tAlvin Powell\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-post-author__byline\">\n\t\t\tHarvard Staff Writer\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/address>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t<time class=\"article-header__date\" datetime=\"2018-02-11\">\n\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2018\t\t<\/time>\n\n\t\t<span class=\"article-header__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t6 min read\t\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"article-header__subheading wp-block-heading\">\n\t\t\tExplains who he is, how he&#039;s learned, what he values\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-a5fa8efd-a321-436f-879a-ec3daab2ad79\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\">\n\t\t\tCampus &amp; Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/02\/harvard-names-lawrence-s-bacow-as-29th-president\/\">Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>There came a moment last fall when Bill Lee just had to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the Harvard Corporation\u2019s senior fellow, chaired the search committee tasked with finding a successor for Harvard President Drew Faust, who will step down in June after 11 years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n<p>The committee presided over a process that was broadly consultative, sending out 375,000 emails seeking comments and suggestions, and speaking with hundreds of alumni, students, and higher-education leaders. Advisory committees were convened representing each of the campus\u2019 main stakeholders: faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process worked, generating the names of 700 potential candidates. One name kept resurfacing: Lawrence S. Bacow, who spent a successful decade as Tufts University\u2019s president, who had once been described as \u201cperhaps the most respected university president in the country,\u201d and whom Lee didn\u2019t have to go far to interview: Bacow had been working diligently as a search committee member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had heard from a number of folks during the interviews, suggesting that we consider Larry,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd then several members of the faculty contacted me directly and suggested, \u2018What about Larry?\u2019 I was in a car on the way home from the airport, and I thought to myself it would be irresponsible not to ask him\u201d if he might be interested in the job.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee called Bacow and asked whether he\u2019d consider joining the pool of candidates.\u00a0 Bacow discussed the prospect with his wife during a two-day car trip. When they returned, Bacow agreed to participate, and in December stepped down from the search committee. Bacow said Sunday that the challenging times facing Harvard and all of higher education played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really see this as an opportunity to not just serve Harvard, but at this particular moment in time, to serve higher education,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cThese are tough times, and it\u2019s the first time in my lifetime when people have questioned the value of going to college, have questioned whether it\u2019s a worthy investment for students and their families, questioned whether or not colleges and universities are worthy of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism, found even at the highest levels of government, caused higher education\u2019s tax-exempt status to come under assault in recent months. In December, Congress passed and President Trump signed the first tax on university endowments, which provide critical support for campus budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow spoke after being introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/29thpresident\">Harvard\u2019s 29<sup>th<\/sup> president<\/a> on Sunday afternoon during a news conference at Harvard\u2019s Barker Center. Bacow, who was Tufts president from 2001 to 2011 and previously chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed Sunday by a vote of the Harvard Corporation, in consultation with the Board of Overseers. His presidency begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory comments, Lee called Bacow \u201cone of the most respected, insightful, experienced, and effective leaders\u201d in higher education, one who other leaders come to for advice on hard problems. He is someone who the search committee \u201cunanimously and enthusiastically believes was the best choice to lead Harvard forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry is an extraordinarily accomplished, admired, and forward-looking university leader, a respected scholar and a respected educator and a truly wonderful human being,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHarvard\u2019s future will be in excellent hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee thanked members of the search committee and others who participated in the process and also thanked Faust for her \u201cextraordinary service and her extraordinary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow, a lawyer, economist, and environmental policy expert who served on MIT\u2019s faculty for 24 years, not only knows higher education, but knows Harvard as well, Lee said. Bacow holds three Harvard degrees \u2014 a J.D. and an M.P.P., both earned in 1976, and a Ph.D. in public policy in 1978. He has served on the Corporation since 2011 and has been president-in-residence at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He\u2019s currently the Hauser Leader-in-Residence at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Harvard\/videos\/10155034573736607\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Bacow traced his appreciation of higher education to his family\u2019s difficult history. His father immigrated to the United States to escape pogroms in Minsk in the Soviet Union. His mother arrived aboard a Liberty ship with few belongings shortly after World War II. She was the only member of her family to survive the Auschwitz extermination camp and the only Jew from her village to survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she arrived on our shores, she was all of 19,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cWhen I reflect upon my parents\u2019 journey to this country, I realize how lucky I am. Where else can one go in one generation from off the boat with literally nothing to enjoying the kind of life and opportunity that I and my family have been fortunate to enjoy? It was higher education that made this all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow will take the helm of an institution that is financially robust, nearing the end of a capital campaign that has raised more than $8 billion, topping its original $6.5 billion goal. Bacow declined to discuss specific priorities for his presidency, but said new opportunities exist in a variety of areas, offering as an example the expansion of Harvard\u2019s campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow said that when he arrived at the Kennedy School in 1972 as a 20-year-old graduate student, he thought that he might have been the beneficiary of an admissions mistake. It was during his time here, he said, that he discovered a love of teaching and of scholarship and developed the interest in higher education that put his feet on the path they still tread today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was here that I discovered who I really was,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cI know of no place on earth with greater potential to help change people\u2019s lives for the better, and I can think of no more exciting time [for] doing all I can \u2014 indeed I would say all we can \u2014 to help Harvard achieve that potential, not just for the good of our students but for the good of the world we aim to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107922570,"featured_media":238237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"gz_ga_pageviews":14,"gz_ga_lastupdated":"2019-09-11 03:09","document_color_palette":"crimson","author":"Alvin Powell","affiliation":"Harvard Staff Writer","_category_override":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"gazette-formats":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-238211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bacow, named Harvard president, meets the press &#8212; 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Bacow as 29th president<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>"},{"blockName":"core\/freeform","attrs":{"content":"","lock":[],"metadata":[]},"innerBlocks":[],"innerHTML":"\r\n<p>There came a moment last fall when Bill Lee just had to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the Harvard Corporation\u2019s senior fellow, chaired the search committee tasked with finding a successor for Harvard President Drew Faust, who will step down in June after 11 years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n<p>The committee presided over a process that was broadly consultative, sending out 375,000 emails seeking comments and suggestions, and speaking with hundreds of alumni, students, and higher-education leaders. Advisory committees were convened representing each of the campus\u2019 main stakeholders: faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process worked, generating the names of 700 potential candidates. One name kept resurfacing: Lawrence S. Bacow, who spent a successful decade as Tufts University\u2019s president, who had once been described as \u201cperhaps the most respected university president in the country,\u201d and whom Lee didn\u2019t have to go far to interview: Bacow had been working diligently as a search committee member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had heard from a number of folks during the interviews, suggesting that we consider Larry,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd then several members of the faculty contacted me directly and suggested, \u2018What about Larry?\u2019 I was in a car on the way home from the airport, and I thought to myself it would be irresponsible not to ask him\u201d if he might be interested in the job.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee called Bacow and asked whether he\u2019d consider joining the pool of candidates.\u00a0 Bacow discussed the prospect with his wife during a two-day car trip. When they returned, Bacow agreed to participate, and in December stepped down from the search committee. Bacow said Sunday that the challenging times facing Harvard and all of higher education played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really see this as an opportunity to not just serve Harvard, but at this particular moment in time, to serve higher education,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cThese are tough times, and it\u2019s the first time in my lifetime when people have questioned the value of going to college, have questioned whether it\u2019s a worthy investment for students and their families, questioned whether or not colleges and universities are worthy of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism, found even at the highest levels of government, caused higher education\u2019s tax-exempt status to come under assault in recent months. In December, Congress passed and President Trump signed the first tax on university endowments, which provide critical support for campus budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow spoke after being introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/29thpresident\">Harvard\u2019s 29<sup>th<\/sup> president<\/a> on Sunday afternoon during a news conference at Harvard\u2019s Barker Center. Bacow, who was Tufts president from 2001 to 2011 and previously chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed Sunday by a vote of the Harvard Corporation, in consultation with the Board of Overseers. His presidency begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory comments, Lee called Bacow \u201cone of the most respected, insightful, experienced, and effective leaders\u201d in higher education, one who other leaders come to for advice on hard problems. He is someone who the search committee \u201cunanimously and enthusiastically believes was the best choice to lead Harvard forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry is an extraordinarily accomplished, admired, and forward-looking university leader, a respected scholar and a respected educator and a truly wonderful human being,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHarvard\u2019s future will be in excellent hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee thanked members of the search committee and others who participated in the process and also thanked Faust for her \u201cextraordinary service and her extraordinary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow, a lawyer, economist, and environmental policy expert who served on MIT\u2019s faculty for 24 years, not only knows higher education, but knows Harvard as well, Lee said. Bacow holds three Harvard degrees \u2014 a J.D. and an M.P.P., both earned in 1976, and a Ph.D. in public policy in 1978. He has served on the Corporation since 2011 and has been president-in-residence at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He\u2019s currently the Hauser Leader-in-Residence at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Harvard\/videos\/10155034573736607\/<\/p>\n<p>Bacow traced his appreciation of higher education to his family\u2019s difficult history. His father immigrated to the United States to escape pogroms in Minsk in the Soviet Union. His mother arrived aboard a Liberty ship with few belongings shortly after World War II. She was the only member of her family to survive the Auschwitz extermination camp and the only Jew from her village to survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she arrived on our shores, she was all of 19,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cWhen I reflect upon my parents\u2019 journey to this country, I realize how lucky I am. Where else can one go in one generation from off the boat with literally nothing to enjoying the kind of life and opportunity that I and my family have been fortunate to enjoy? It was higher education that made this all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow will take the helm of an institution that is financially robust, nearing the end of a capital campaign that has raised more than $8 billion, topping its original $6.5 billion goal. Bacow declined to discuss specific priorities for his presidency, but said new opportunities exist in a variety of areas, offering as an example the expansion of Harvard\u2019s campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow said that when he arrived at the Kennedy School in 1972 as a 20-year-old graduate student, he thought that he might have been the beneficiary of an admissions mistake. It was during his time here, he said, that he discovered a love of teaching and of scholarship and developed the interest in higher education that put his feet on the path they still tread today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was here that I discovered who I really was,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cI know of no place on earth with greater potential to help change people\u2019s lives for the better, and I can think of no more exciting time [for] doing all I can \u2014 indeed I would say all we can \u2014 to help Harvard achieve that potential, not just for the good of our students but for the good of the world we aim to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n","innerContent":["\r\n<p>There came a moment last fall when Bill Lee just had to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the Harvard Corporation\u2019s senior fellow, chaired the search committee tasked with finding a successor for Harvard President Drew Faust, who will step down in June after 11 years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n<p>The committee presided over a process that was broadly consultative, sending out 375,000 emails seeking comments and suggestions, and speaking with hundreds of alumni, students, and higher-education leaders. Advisory committees were convened representing each of the campus\u2019 main stakeholders: faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process worked, generating the names of 700 potential candidates. One name kept resurfacing: Lawrence S. Bacow, who spent a successful decade as Tufts University\u2019s president, who had once been described as \u201cperhaps the most respected university president in the country,\u201d and whom Lee didn\u2019t have to go far to interview: Bacow had been working diligently as a search committee member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had heard from a number of folks during the interviews, suggesting that we consider Larry,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd then several members of the faculty contacted me directly and suggested, \u2018What about Larry?\u2019 I was in a car on the way home from the airport, and I thought to myself it would be irresponsible not to ask him\u201d if he might be interested in the job.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee called Bacow and asked whether he\u2019d consider joining the pool of candidates.\u00a0 Bacow discussed the prospect with his wife during a two-day car trip. When they returned, Bacow agreed to participate, and in December stepped down from the search committee. Bacow said Sunday that the challenging times facing Harvard and all of higher education played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really see this as an opportunity to not just serve Harvard, but at this particular moment in time, to serve higher education,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cThese are tough times, and it\u2019s the first time in my lifetime when people have questioned the value of going to college, have questioned whether it\u2019s a worthy investment for students and their families, questioned whether or not colleges and universities are worthy of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism, found even at the highest levels of government, caused higher education\u2019s tax-exempt status to come under assault in recent months. In December, Congress passed and President Trump signed the first tax on university endowments, which provide critical support for campus budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow spoke after being introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/29thpresident\">Harvard\u2019s 29<sup>th<\/sup> president<\/a> on Sunday afternoon during a news conference at Harvard\u2019s Barker Center. Bacow, who was Tufts president from 2001 to 2011 and previously chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed Sunday by a vote of the Harvard Corporation, in consultation with the Board of Overseers. His presidency begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory comments, Lee called Bacow \u201cone of the most respected, insightful, experienced, and effective leaders\u201d in higher education, one who other leaders come to for advice on hard problems. He is someone who the search committee \u201cunanimously and enthusiastically believes was the best choice to lead Harvard forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry is an extraordinarily accomplished, admired, and forward-looking university leader, a respected scholar and a respected educator and a truly wonderful human being,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHarvard\u2019s future will be in excellent hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee thanked members of the search committee and others who participated in the process and also thanked Faust for her \u201cextraordinary service and her extraordinary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow, a lawyer, economist, and environmental policy expert who served on MIT\u2019s faculty for 24 years, not only knows higher education, but knows Harvard as well, Lee said. Bacow holds three Harvard degrees \u2014 a J.D. and an M.P.P., both earned in 1976, and a Ph.D. in public policy in 1978. He has served on the Corporation since 2011 and has been president-in-residence at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He\u2019s currently the Hauser Leader-in-Residence at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Harvard\/videos\/10155034573736607\/<\/p>\n<p>Bacow traced his appreciation of higher education to his family\u2019s difficult history. His father immigrated to the United States to escape pogroms in Minsk in the Soviet Union. His mother arrived aboard a Liberty ship with few belongings shortly after World War II. She was the only member of her family to survive the Auschwitz extermination camp and the only Jew from her village to survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she arrived on our shores, she was all of 19,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cWhen I reflect upon my parents\u2019 journey to this country, I realize how lucky I am. Where else can one go in one generation from off the boat with literally nothing to enjoying the kind of life and opportunity that I and my family have been fortunate to enjoy? It was higher education that made this all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow will take the helm of an institution that is financially robust, nearing the end of a capital campaign that has raised more than $8 billion, topping its original $6.5 billion goal. Bacow declined to discuss specific priorities for his presidency, but said new opportunities exist in a variety of areas, offering as an example the expansion of Harvard\u2019s campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow said that when he arrived at the Kennedy School in 1972 as a 20-year-old graduate student, he thought that he might have been the beneficiary of an admissions mistake. It was during his time here, he said, that he discovered a love of teaching and of scholarship and developed the interest in higher education that put his feet on the path they still tread today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was here that I discovered who I really was,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cI know of no place on earth with greater potential to help change people\u2019s lives for the better, and I can think of no more exciting time [for] doing all I can \u2014 indeed I would say all we can \u2014 to help Harvard achieve that potential, not just for the good of our students but for the good of the world we aim to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n"],"rendered":"\r\n<p>There came a moment last fall when Bill Lee just had to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the Harvard Corporation\u2019s senior fellow, chaired the search committee tasked with finding a successor for Harvard President Drew Faust, who will step down in June after 11 years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n<p>The committee presided over a process that was broadly consultative, sending out 375,000 emails seeking comments and suggestions, and speaking with hundreds of alumni, students, and higher-education leaders. Advisory committees were convened representing each of the campus\u2019 main stakeholders: faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process worked, generating the names of 700 potential candidates. One name kept resurfacing: Lawrence S. Bacow, who spent a successful decade as Tufts University\u2019s president, who had once been described as \u201cperhaps the most respected university president in the country,\u201d and whom Lee didn\u2019t have to go far to interview: Bacow had been working diligently as a search committee member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had heard from a number of folks during the interviews, suggesting that we consider Larry,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd then several members of the faculty contacted me directly and suggested, \u2018What about Larry?\u2019 I was in a car on the way home from the airport, and I thought to myself it would be irresponsible not to ask him\u201d if he might be interested in the job.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee called Bacow and asked whether he\u2019d consider joining the pool of candidates.\u00a0 Bacow discussed the prospect with his wife during a two-day car trip. When they returned, Bacow agreed to participate, and in December stepped down from the search committee. Bacow said Sunday that the challenging times facing Harvard and all of higher education played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really see this as an opportunity to not just serve Harvard, but at this particular moment in time, to serve higher education,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cThese are tough times, and it\u2019s the first time in my lifetime when people have questioned the value of going to college, have questioned whether it\u2019s a worthy investment for students and their families, questioned whether or not colleges and universities are worthy of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism, found even at the highest levels of government, caused higher education\u2019s tax-exempt status to come under assault in recent months. In December, Congress passed and President Trump signed the first tax on university endowments, which provide critical support for campus budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow spoke after being introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/29thpresident\">Harvard\u2019s 29<sup>th<\/sup> president<\/a> on Sunday afternoon during a news conference at Harvard\u2019s Barker Center. Bacow, who was Tufts president from 2001 to 2011 and previously chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed Sunday by a vote of the Harvard Corporation, in consultation with the Board of Overseers. His presidency begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory comments, Lee called Bacow \u201cone of the most respected, insightful, experienced, and effective leaders\u201d in higher education, one who other leaders come to for advice on hard problems. He is someone who the search committee \u201cunanimously and enthusiastically believes was the best choice to lead Harvard forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry is an extraordinarily accomplished, admired, and forward-looking university leader, a respected scholar and a respected educator and a truly wonderful human being,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHarvard\u2019s future will be in excellent hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee thanked members of the search committee and others who participated in the process and also thanked Faust for her \u201cextraordinary service and her extraordinary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow, a lawyer, economist, and environmental policy expert who served on MIT\u2019s faculty for 24 years, not only knows higher education, but knows Harvard as well, Lee said. Bacow holds three Harvard degrees \u2014 a J.D. and an M.P.P., both earned in 1976, and a Ph.D. in public policy in 1978. He has served on the Corporation since 2011 and has been president-in-residence at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He\u2019s currently the Hauser Leader-in-Residence at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Harvard\/videos\/10155034573736607\/<\/p>\n<p>Bacow traced his appreciation of higher education to his family\u2019s difficult history. His father immigrated to the United States to escape pogroms in Minsk in the Soviet Union. His mother arrived aboard a Liberty ship with few belongings shortly after World War II. She was the only member of her family to survive the Auschwitz extermination camp and the only Jew from her village to survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she arrived on our shores, she was all of 19,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cWhen I reflect upon my parents\u2019 journey to this country, I realize how lucky I am. Where else can one go in one generation from off the boat with literally nothing to enjoying the kind of life and opportunity that I and my family have been fortunate to enjoy? It was higher education that made this all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow will take the helm of an institution that is financially robust, nearing the end of a capital campaign that has raised more than $8 billion, topping its original $6.5 billion goal. Bacow declined to discuss specific priorities for his presidency, but said new opportunities exist in a variety of areas, offering as an example the expansion of Harvard\u2019s campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow said that when he arrived at the Kennedy School in 1972 as a 20-year-old graduate student, he thought that he might have been the beneficiary of an admissions mistake. It was during his time here, he said, that he discovered a love of teaching and of scholarship and developed the interest in higher education that put his feet on the path they still tread today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was here that I discovered who I really was,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cI know of no place on earth with greater potential to help change people\u2019s lives for the better, and I can think of no more exciting time [for] doing all I can \u2014 indeed I would say all we can \u2014 to help Harvard achieve that potential, not just for the good of our students but for the good of the world we aim to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n"}],"innerHTML":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n\r\n\r\n\n\n<\/div>\n","innerContent":["\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\">\n\n","\r\n","\r\n","\n\n<\/div>\n"],"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-content-justification-center is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\n\n\t\t\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-harvard-gazette-supporting-content alignleft supporting-content\" id=\"supporting-content-a5fa8efd-a321-436f-879a-ec3daab2ad79\">\n\t<div class=\"featured-articles is-post-type-post is-style-grid-list\"  style=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"featured-articles__title wp-block-heading\">More like this<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"featured-articles__list \">\n\t\t\n\t\t<li class=\"featured-article \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"featured-article__image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1200%2C750\" class=\"attachment-large-landscape-desktop size-large-landscape-desktop\" alt=\"Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=608,380 608w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=784,490 784w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1024,640 1024w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1200,750 1200w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1488,930 1488w, https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/h2500-021118_harvard_president_060.jpg?resize=1680,1050 1680w\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"featured-article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/section\/campus-community\/\">\n\t\t\tCampus &amp; Community\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"featured-article__title wp-block-heading \"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/story\/2018\/02\/harvard-names-lawrence-s-bacow-as-29th-president\/\">Harvard names Lawrence S. Bacow as 29th president<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"featured-article__meta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time class=\"featured-article__date\" datetime=\"2018-02-11\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFebruary 11, 2018\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/time>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"featured-article__reading-time\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlong read\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>There came a moment last fall when Bill Lee just had to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, the Harvard Corporation\u2019s senior fellow, chaired the search committee tasked with finding a successor for Harvard President Drew Faust, who will step down in June after 11 years at the University\u2019s helm.<\/p>\n<p>The committee presided over a process that was broadly consultative, sending out 375,000 emails seeking comments and suggestions, and speaking with hundreds of alumni, students, and higher-education leaders. Advisory committees were convened representing each of the campus\u2019 main stakeholders: faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The process worked, generating the names of 700 potential candidates. One name kept resurfacing: Lawrence S. Bacow, who spent a successful decade as Tufts University\u2019s president, who had once been described as \u201cperhaps the most respected university president in the country,\u201d and whom Lee didn\u2019t have to go far to interview: Bacow had been working diligently as a search committee member.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had heard from a number of folks during the interviews, suggesting that we consider Larry,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd then several members of the faculty contacted me directly and suggested, \u2018What about Larry?\u2019 I was in a car on the way home from the airport, and I thought to myself it would be irresponsible not to ask him\u201d if he might be interested in the job.<\/p>\n\n<p>Lee called Bacow and asked whether he\u2019d consider joining the pool of candidates.\u00a0 Bacow discussed the prospect with his wife during a two-day car trip. When they returned, Bacow agreed to participate, and in December stepped down from the search committee. Bacow said Sunday that the challenging times facing Harvard and all of higher education played a role in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really see this as an opportunity to not just serve Harvard, but at this particular moment in time, to serve higher education,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cThese are tough times, and it\u2019s the first time in my lifetime when people have questioned the value of going to college, have questioned whether it\u2019s a worthy investment for students and their families, questioned whether or not colleges and universities are worthy of our support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That skepticism, found even at the highest levels of government, caused higher education\u2019s tax-exempt status to come under assault in recent months. In December, Congress passed and President Trump signed the first tax on university endowments, which provide critical support for campus budgets.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow spoke after being introduced as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/29thpresident\">Harvard\u2019s 29<sup>th<\/sup> president<\/a> on Sunday afternoon during a news conference at Harvard\u2019s Barker Center. Bacow, who was Tufts president from 2001 to 2011 and previously chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was appointed Sunday by a vote of the Harvard Corporation, in consultation with the Board of Overseers. His presidency begins July 1.<\/p>\n<p>In his introductory comments, Lee called Bacow \u201cone of the most respected, insightful, experienced, and effective leaders\u201d in higher education, one who other leaders come to for advice on hard problems. He is someone who the search committee \u201cunanimously and enthusiastically believes was the best choice to lead Harvard forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarry is an extraordinarily accomplished, admired, and forward-looking university leader, a respected scholar and a respected educator and a truly wonderful human being,\u201d Lee said. \u201cHarvard\u2019s future will be in excellent hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee thanked members of the search committee and others who participated in the process and also thanked Faust for her \u201cextraordinary service and her extraordinary leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow, a lawyer, economist, and environmental policy expert who served on MIT\u2019s faculty for 24 years, not only knows higher education, but knows Harvard as well, Lee said. Bacow holds three Harvard degrees \u2014 a J.D. and an M.P.P., both earned in 1976, and a Ph.D. in public policy in 1978. He has served on the Corporation since 2011 and has been president-in-residence at Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Education. He\u2019s currently the Hauser Leader-in-Residence at Harvard Kennedy School\u2019s Center for Public Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Harvard\/videos\/10155034573736607\/<\/p>\n<p>Bacow traced his appreciation of higher education to his family\u2019s difficult history. His father immigrated to the United States to escape pogroms in Minsk in the Soviet Union. His mother arrived aboard a Liberty ship with few belongings shortly after World War II. She was the only member of her family to survive the Auschwitz extermination camp and the only Jew from her village to survive the war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she arrived on our shores, she was all of 19,\u201d Bacow said. \u201cWhen I reflect upon my parents\u2019 journey to this country, I realize how lucky I am. Where else can one go in one generation from off the boat with literally nothing to enjoying the kind of life and opportunity that I and my family have been fortunate to enjoy? It was higher education that made this all possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bacow will take the helm of an institution that is financially robust, nearing the end of a capital campaign that has raised more than $8 billion, topping its original $6.5 billion goal. Bacow declined to discuss specific priorities for his presidency, but said new opportunities exist in a variety of areas, offering as an example the expansion of Harvard\u2019s campus in Allston.<\/p>\n<p>Bacow said that when he arrived at the Kennedy School in 1972 as a 20-year-old graduate student, he thought that he might have been the beneficiary of an admissions mistake. 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