Short List for Larry Summers' Replacement

From today's Boston Globe:

Harvard has whittled down hundreds of nominees for its next president to a small list, including internal candidates and presidents of some of the nation's top universities, according to a source familiar with the process.

The source would not give a specific number, but said the university is considering a smaller group than the 30 names that the presidential search committee presented to Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday.

So who's on the list?

On the list of 30 candidates presented to the overseers were three Harvard leaders who worked for Summers: provost Steven E. Hyman, a neuroscientist; Elena Kagan, the dean of Harvard Law School; and Drew Gilpin Faust, a history professor and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

The list also included top-tier academic officials in the United States and Britain: University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann; Brown University president Ruth J. Simmons; Princeton University president Shirley M. Tilghman; Tufts University president Lawrence S. Bacow; Stanford provost John W. Etchemendy; Alison F. Richard, the vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge in England; and Lee C. Bollinger, president of Columbia University.

Two former Harvard administrators were also part of the group: Kim B. Clark, the former dean of Harvard's business school, who surprised many by leaving to become president of Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2005; and Harvey V. Fineberg, a former Harvard provost who is now president of the Washington-based Institute of Medicine. Also on the list is Anne-Marie Slaughter, a former Harvard professor who is the dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Fineberg, Bollinger, and Gutmann were among the top candidates in Harvard's last search .

The university's top governing board expects to name a final candidate early next year.