Is Harvard Following Yale's Lead? The Yale Daily News suggests that, if Harvard is lucky, Drew Faust may be a president in the mode of Yale's Rick Levin—just as Larry Summers was a president in the mode of the disastrous, where-is-he-now? Benno Schmidt.

Following the turmoil under Schmidt and Summers, both of whom were appointed from outside their respective universities, search committees at both schools picked insider candidates who displayed leadership styles markedly different from their predecessors. Whereas Schmidt and Summers engendered ire among their faculties, Levin and Faust are, by all accounts, widely respected at their institutions.....

Yale has enjoyed a period of stability, prosperity and growth under Levin; Harvard would welcome the same. But would it be satisfied with the same?
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