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Harvard selects its first Black president


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Harvard University on Thursday named Claudine Gay as its 30th president.  Gay becomes the first Black president in the school’s nearly 400-year history . The daughter of Haitian immigrants, Gay will officially take over next summer.

 

Gay is currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  She was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. Bacow, who announced in June that he would step down next year.  Though Gay has not previously held a presidency, she has a long history with Harvard. She earned her Ph.D. in government at the university in 1998 and in 2008 joined the faculty in the Department of African and African-American Studies, where she taught before later climbing the administrative ranks. Prior to Harvard, she taught at Stanford University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in economics.


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