Organization:Outline of Harvard University

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This outline is provided as an overview of, and topical guide to Harvard University:

Harvard University – private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts , United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States[1] and the first corporation (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College) chartered in the country.


Governing structure

  • The President and Fellows of Harvard College ("Harvard Corporation")
    • Office of the President
    • Fellows
  • Harvard Board of Overseers
    • Secretary
    • Treasurer
      • Harvard University endowment
  • University Marshall
  • Memorial Church
  • Office of the Provost
    • University Library
  • Executive Vice President

Departments

  • Financial Administration
  • Campus Services
  • Health Services
  • Human Resources
  • Information Technology (HUIT)
  • Planning and Project Management
  • Office of the General Counsel
  • Public Affairs & Communications
  • Alumni Affairs & Development

History

History of Harvard University

  • The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Constitution
    • Chapter V. "THE UNIVERSITY AT CAMBRIDGE, AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF LITERATURE, ETC.
      • Section 1. The University"[1]

Faculties (schools)

  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences
    • Harvard College
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (formerly Division)
    • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    • Division of Continuing Education
      • Summer School
      • Extension School
  • Faculty of Business
    • Harvard Business Publishing
  • Faculty of Design
  • Faculty of Divinity
  • Faculty of Education
  • Faculty of Government
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Public Health
  • Faculty of Medicine
    • School of Dental Medicine

Campuses

  • Boston-Allston
    • Campus of the Harvard Business School
    • Barry's Corner
  • Boston--Longwood Medical Area
    • Campus of the Harvard Medical School
  • Boston—Jamaica Plain
    • Arnold Arboretum
  • Cambridge-Harvard Square
    • Harvard Houses Historic District
    • Harvard Yard
    • Campus of the Harvard Divinity School
    • Campus of the Harvard Law School
    • Campus of Radcliffe College
      • Radcliffe Quadrangle
      • Radcliffe Yard
    • Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
  • Petersham
    • Harvard Forest

People affiliated with Harvard University

  • John Harvard

Alumni

  • List of Harvard University non-graduate alumni
By nationality
By occupation
By school
  • List of Harvard Business School alumni
  • List of Harvard Divinity School alumni
  • List of Harvard Law School alumni

Faculty

Harvard's faculty includes numerous renowned scholars including: (biologists) E. O. Wilson and William Kaelin; (biophysicists) Adam Cohen and Xiaowei Zhuang; (physicists) Lisa Randall, Subir Sachdev, and Howard Georgi; (astrophysicists) Alyssa A. Goodman and John M. Kovac; (mathematicians) Shing-Tung Yau and Joe Harris; (computer scientists) Michael O. Rabin and Leslie Valiant; (chemists) Elias Corey, Dudley R. Herschbach, and George M. Whitesides; (literary critics) Helen Vendler, Stephen Greenblatt, Louis Menand, and Stephanie Burt; (composers) Robert D. Levin and Bernard Rands; (lawyers) Alan Dershowitz and Lawrence Lessig; (historians) Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Niall Ferguson, (psychologists) Steven Pinker and Daniel Gilbert; (economists) Amartya Sen, Greg Mankiw, Robert Barro, Stephen Marglin, Jason Furman, Michael Kremer, Oliver Hart, Raj Chetty, Lawrence Summers, and Eric Maskin; (philosophers) Harvey Mansfield, Shirley Williams, Cornel West, and Michael Sandel; (political scientists) Robert Putnam, Steven Levitsky, Danielle Allen, and Joseph Nye.

Past faculty members included: Stephen Jay Gould, Robert Nozick, Stephan Thernstrom, Sanford J. Ungar, Michael Walzer, Martin Feldstein, Roy Glauber, and Stanley Hoffmann.

Fellows

Honorees

Sports

  • Baseball team
  • Basketball: Men's / Women's teams
  • Crew teams.
  • Fencing team
  • Football team
  • Lacrosse: Men's / Women's teams
  • Rowing team
  • Tennis team
  • Volleyball: Men's / Women's teams
  • Wrestling team

Events and activities

  • Harvard–Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project
  • Head of the Charles Regatta
  • Primal Scream
  • Tours of Harvard University
  • Traditions of Harvard University
  • History and traditions of Harvard commencements

Buildings and structures

Athletics facilities

Housing

Libraries

  • Baker Library
  • Countway Center for the History of Medicine
  • Gutman Library
  • Houghton Library
  • Lamont Library
  • Quad Library
  • Widener Library

Museums

  • Arnold Arboretum – Jamaica Plain/Roslindale
  • Harvard Forest – Petersham, MA
  • Harvard Museum of Natural History
  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Peabody Museum

Public art

Associated organizations

Affiliated hospitals

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • Boston Children's Hospital
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Cambridge Hospital
  • Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
  • Joslin Diabetes Center
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Massachusetts Eye and Ear
  • Schepens Eye Research Institute

Alumni organizations

Media and publications

  • The Harvard Crimson
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Harvard Educational Review
  • Harvard Law Review
  • Radio broadcasting
    • WHRB
  • Television broadcasting
    • Harvard Undergraduate Television (HUTV), formerly Harvard-Radcliffe Television
      • Ivory Tower (Harvard Undergraduate Television)
  • Harvard Internet broadcasts

Student organizations

Research centers

  • Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Other

  • Ivy League
  • Harvard/MIT Cooperative Society
  • Harvard University Employees Credit Union

Miscellaneous

  • Archival depository at Harvard University
  • Crimson
  • Employment at Harvard University
  • Online learning at Harvard University
  • Harvard mascot(s)
  • Harvard (name)
  • Harvard (trademark)
  • Harvard University and the ROTC
  • Harvard University fifty-year plan
  • Harvard University admissions and enrollment
  • Harvard University criticism and controversies
    • The John Harvard statue controversy
    • Gender at Harvard University
    • Ethnicity at Harvard University
  • Harvard University endowments
  • Harvard University sponsorship
  • Harvard University Health Services
  • Internet2
  • Protests at Harvard University
  • Rankings for Harvard University
  • School dress at Harvard University

Images

Art at Harvard University

Buildings and structures

Maps

Logos

Shields

See also

  • List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment
  • Index of Harvard University-related articles

References

  1. ↑ Rudolph, Frederick (1961). The American College and University. University of Georgia Press. p. 3. ISBN 0-8203-1285-1. 

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