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.
HARVARD NAM CLDE GAY 30TH PRINT
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.
DATE SET FOR CLDE GAY’S GURATN
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.