Keohane received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1993.
First Female Ivy Leader
Rodin, the first and so far only female president in the Ivy League, began her tenure as president of UPenn in 1994, moving from the provost's position at Yale. Rodin received her undergraduate degree from UPenn and is an academic in psychology and psychiatry.
Rodin has already once turned down becoming the head of a Cambridge institution. In 1986 she refused the deanship of Radcliffe College.
Like Keohane, while she made the list of Rudenstine successors, she failed to appear at the top. Although Keohane's junior, she has no ties to Harvard.
While no official requirement exists that presidents must have previous ties to the University, an incoming president with absolutely no previous relationship with Harvard would be unprecedented.
In addition, Rodin was passed over for president of Yale in 1993 when she was provost, raising the question of whether Harvard would pick as its president someone passed over by a rival institution.
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