Drew Faust was formally installed as Harvard’s 28th president on Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, during an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. An academic procession featured representatives of universities from around the world. Thousands of members of the Harvard faculty, staff, students, alumni and the community turned out on a damp day to participate in the historic rites and wish the new president well. The installation capped off two days of celebrations and convocations that are chronicled here.
News and multimedia
- Installation address: Unleashing our most ambitious imaginings
- Ceremony hearkens back to University’s oldest beginnings
- Inequality and justice, why, where, when, who
- Decisions, decisions… and how we make them
- How interpretation makes meaning
- The truths lost and gained in wartime
- Harvard science depth, breadth is on display
- Service of Thanksgiving for Drew Faust
- From jazz to samba to ‘Hill Street Blues,’ alums bring inaugural to life
- Toni Morrison reads at the Memorial Church
- The evening ends on a sweet note
- Vibrant robing, moist procession lead to inaugural stage
- Reception closes festivities
- American Indians bless search for Harvard roots
Other events of interest
- Harvard Archives exhibitions to mark inauguration
- Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) (Fogg Art Museum)
Drew Faust
- Biography of President Faust
- Harvard names Drew G. Faust as its 28th president
- Using the University – Risk and Reward at Harvard: Speech to Incoming Freshmen and Parents
- A Scholar in the House (Harvard Magazine)
- The Revisionist (Boston Globe)
Ceremony background
- President’s chair is part of a grand tradition
- Venerable insignia to see light of day at Installation
- Inauguration provides a rare glimpse of Harvard’s ceremonial silver
- Notes on the evolution of a ceremony