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Jun 20, 2023 · When Larry Bacow took office as Harvard’s 29th president in 2018 he vowed to be a champion for higher education and public service. Five years later, as he prepares to step down, we look back at a tenure marked by the profound challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a reckoning with the University’s legacies of slavery, and ambitious initiatives in quantum, climate, and AI.
Sep 3, 2019 · A Welcome Message from Larry Bacow. Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I hope that the summer has provided you with many opportunities for reflection and relaxation—and that, like me, you are eager to begin a new academic year together. Some of my reading this summer took me deeper into Harvard’s history by way of personal anecdotes and ...
Feb 11, 2018 · Lawrence S. Bacow, whose father worked full time while attending a state college in Detroit at night to earn his degree, will take the helm of the country’s most prominent private university on ...
Lawrence S. Bacow, Harvard’s twenty-ninth president, announced on June 8 that he would step down at the end of the 2022-2023 academic year, concluding service that began in 2018, when he succeeded Drew Gilpin Faust. In a characteristically plainspoken email to the community (the subject line was “My Plans”), Bacow wrote of his intention ...
Feb 11, 2018 · Lawrence S. Bacow spoke at a news conference on Sunday as he was introduced as Harvard University's 29th president in Cambridge, Mass. Photo: Getty Images
Jun 10, 2022 · Harvard President Lawrence Bacow’s Wednesday announcement that he would be leaving the school in 2023 came on the heels of a similar announcement in April from Columbia’s president, Lee Bollinger.
Larry Bacow is one of the most accomplished, admired, insightful, and effective leaders in American higher education. This is a pivotal moment for higher education—one full of extraordinary possibilities to pursue new knowledge, enhance education, and serve society, but also a time when the singular value of higher education and university ...
