Vassar College President Fergusson elected to Harvard Board of Overseers

Vassar College President Frances Fergusson has been elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers, the senior governing board, founded in 1642, of Harvard University.

The board, which meets five times each year, consists of 30 members, each elected for a six-year term. As an overseer, she will serve on the standing committee on humanities and arts, the institutional policy committee, and will also be on the visiting committees for the history of art and architecture, and the Graduate School of Design.

Fergusson received her Ph.D. in fine arts from Harvard. She was a Radcliffe Institute Fellow in 1973-74 and has served on the Executive Committee of the Radcliffe Institute. She received the Centennial Medal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

Fergusson says she believes in "giving back to an institution that has had such a significant effect on my life. It will be a great pleasure to work with President Summers, the deans, and the overseers."

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Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

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Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.

This article was posted on Friday, September 6th, 2002.