It’s hard not to look at Faust in the context of the Summers presidency. Summers got in trouble for his remarks about women in science and mathematics; Faust is, of course, a woman. Summers was never considered a great booster of the humanities; Faust is a historian. Summer’s governing style was-how can I put it nicely?—aggressive; Faust is said to be much more of a consensus builder. Even though Summers had taught at Harvard, he’d been gone for about a decade and was effectively a Harvard outsider; Faust was an internal candidate. So in almost every instance, if Summers was X, Faust is Y.
1 Harvard University – Derek Bok / Drew Gilpin Faust
2 University of Cambridge – Alison Richard
3 University of Oxford – John Hood
4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Susan Hockfield
4 Yale University – Richard C. Levin
6 Stanford University – John Hennessy
7 California Institute of Technology – Jean-Lou Chameau
8 University of California, Berkeley – Robert J. Birgeneau
9 Imperial College London – Sir Richard Sykes
10 Princeton University – Shirley M. Tilghman