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- History of Harvard
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- Leadership and governance
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The people of Harvard
Our people are what make Harvard special. Through continued efforts in inclusion and belonging, Harvard has built a community comprising many backgrounds, cultures, races, identities, life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, and values.
Harvard leadership and governance is composed of four components:
President
Alan M. Garber leads Harvard University as its 31st President.
Deans and Officers
Leading Harvard’s Schools and many offices
Harvard Corporation
The oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere
Board of Overseers
Alumni committed to Harvard’s missions and interests
The history of Harvard
Explore the history of our founding, our Nobel Prize winners, the honorary degrees we’ve awarded, and how our iconic shield was created.
On October 28, 1636, Harvard, the first college in the American colonies, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University was officially founded by a vote by the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Harvard’s endowment started with John Harvard’s initial donation of 400 books and half his estate, but in 1721, Thomas Hollis began the now standard practice of requiring that a donation be used for a specific purpose when he donated money for “a Divinity Professor, to read lectures in the Halls to the students.”
Women’s history at Harvard
As staff members, then as students and faculty, the women of Harvard paved the way for the next generation, and continue to carve new paths today.
Women’s history at Harvard
As staff members, then as students and faculty, the women of Harvard paved the way for the next generation, and continue to carve new paths today.
Women’s history at Harvard
As staff members, then as students and faculty, the women of Harvard paved the way for the next generation, and continue to carve new paths today.
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and scholarship, and broader global
concerns.
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Harvard is dedicated to being a good neighbor to the communities we reside within, whether in Massachusetts our at our locations abroad.
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