Q&A: Harvard's new 大統領,/社長 on challenges, ideals
CAMBRIDGE, 集まり. (AP) - Harvard University's 29th 大統領,/社長 is 公式に taking the reins.
Lawrence Bacow (BA'-kow) has been on the 職業 since July but 参加するd in a 儀式の 就任(式)/開始 Friday at the Ivy League school in Massachusetts.
His speech called on the campus to embrace 多様制 and 解放する/自由な speech, 特に for those with …に反対するing 見解(をとる)s.
The former Tufts University 大統領,/社長 also 公約するd to defend the importance of a college degree even as families question whether it's 価値(がある) the cost.
He's taking over at a contentious time for the nation's oldest university.
Harvard's admissions office is the 支配する of a 連邦の 差別 訴訟 and a separate 調査 by the U.S. 司法(官) Department.
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2018 とじ込み/提出する photo, Lawrence Bacow speaks after 存在 introduced as the 29th 大統領,/社長 of Harvard University in Cambridge, 集まり. Bacow will be 就任するd into the position on Friday, Oct. 5. (AP Photo/法案 Sikes, とじ込み/提出する)
The school also 直面するs a new 連邦の endowment 税金 that could cost more than $40 million a year.