Durg a morng nversatn on May 18, Clde Gay reflected on the Faculty of Arts and Scienc’ (FAS) prri and progrs durg her service as an sce 2018: aims and acplishments that n bee somewhat overshadowed by the mands of pg wh the panmic and the news of her selectn last December to bee the Universy’s thirtieth print on July 1.
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MEET PRINT CLDE GAY
In the wake of the Supreme Court cisn lg Harvard’s admissns procr unnstutnal, the universy’s print, Clde Gay sent a vio msage to stunts, faculty and alumni reaffirmg Harvard’s mment to diversy. Gay’s msage clud another page om the old playbook.
Now Gay and her peers will have to fend the advantag offers to s vast populatn of socenomilly advantaged whe stunts, who perceive themselv to be entled to their ele llege admissn spe a lifetime of privilege. Clde Gay, a wily admired higher tn lear and distguished scholar of mocracy and polil participatn, will bee the 30th print of Harvard Universy on July 1. Sce 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Fay Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Scienc (FAS), the Universy’s largt and most amilly diverse faculty, spanng the blogil and physil scienc and engeerg, the social scienc, and the humani and arts.
The dghter of Haian immigrants, Gay received her bachelor’s gree 1992 om Stanford, where she majored enomics and was award the Anna Lra Myers Prize for bt unrgraduate this.
HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
A quantative social scientist wh expertise polil behavr, Gay served as an assistant profsor and then tenured associate profsor at Stanford before beg reced to Harvard 2006 as a profsor of ernment.
Speakg after her electn, Gay said, “I am humbled by the nfince that the erng boards have placed me and by the prospect of succeedg Print Baw leadg this remarkable stutn. “Today, we are a moment of remarkable and acceleratg change — socially, polilly, enomilly, and technologilly, ” said Gay.
Gay was elected to the princy today by the Harvard Corporatn, the Universy’s prcipal erng board, wh the nsent of the Universy’s Board of Overseers.
DATE SET FOR CLDE GAY’S GURATN
Unr Clde Gay’s learship, Harvard’s future is very bright. Known for her broad tellectual cursy and terdisciplary outlook, Gay is regnized as a highly fluential expert on Amerin polil participatn.
A member of the Amerin Amy of Arts and Scienc, Gay has pursued her scholarship as a fellow at the Public Policy Instute of California, the Center for Advanced Study the Behavral Scienc, and the Radcliffe Instute for Advanced Study at Harvard. “Clde Gay b one person many of the attribut that will be required of Harvard’s new print, ” said Shirley Tilghman, who served as print of Prceton Universy om 2001 to 2013, is profsor emera of molecular blogy and public affairs at Prceton, and serv on the Harvard Corporatn.
Reactg to Gay’s appotment, Ruth Simmons, print of Prairie View A&M Universy and print emera of Brown Universy, said, “In selectg Clde Gay as the next print, Harvard’s erng boards have monstrated a mment to ensurg that Harvard remas not only the preement universy the world but also the universy that leads wh creasg relevance to the world today. As an of FAS, Gay has advanced an amb agenda of amic prri, wh a foc on brgg rourc om across discipl to bear on issu of public nsequence. Announcg the search, Gay noted that “fightg the climate crisis requir engagement by the full breadth of amic discipl.