Harvard names new president, first Black woman to hold top job
Story by By Ross Kerber and Dan Whitcomb
BOSTON (Reuters) -Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay, the school's dean of Faculty Arts and Sciences, as its 30th president, the first Black person and only the second woman to hold the job.
Gay, the daughter of Haitian immigrants who joined Harvard as a professor in 2006, succeeds Lawrence Bacow as president of the prestigious, nearly 400-year-old Ivy League university. She will take over in July 2023.
"Claudine is a remarkable leader who is profoundly devoted to sustaining and enhancing Harvard’s academic excellence" Penny Pritzker, secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department under President Barack Obama and chair of the search committee, said in a written statement.
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