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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Gina Grant college admissions controversy. Gina Grant (born 1976) is an American woman who gained notoriety when her admission to Harvard University was rescinded after it became known that four years earlier, at age 14, she had killed her mother. Controversy ensued over questions including whether she was obligated to disclose crimes committed ...
The history of Harvard University begins in 1636, when Harvard College was founded in the young settlement of New Towne in Massachusetts, which had been settled in 1630. New Towne was organized as a town on the founding of the university, and changed its name two years later to Cambridge, Massachusetts , in honor of the city in England.
Took office Left office 1 Christopher Columbus Langdell: 1870 1895 2 James Barr Ames: 1895 1910 3 Ezra Ripley Thayer: 1910 1915 4 Roscoe Pound: 1916 1936 5 James M. Landis: 1937 1946 6 Erwin Griswold: 1946 1967 7 Derek Curtis Bok: 1968 1971 8 Albert Martin Sacks: 1971 1981 9 James Vorenberg: 1981 1989 10 Robert C. Clark: 1989 2003 11 Elena ...
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
Medical doctor and professor of pathology; author of a main textbook in the field; discoverer of the Rosai-Dorfman disease. Josiah Royce (1855–1916) Professor (1892–1914) Philosopher. James R. Russell (born 1953) Professor (born 1993) Professor and scholar; Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University. [424] Matthew Sacchet.
Harvard Kennedy School ( HKS ), officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy, public administration, and international development, four doctoral degrees, and various executive education ...
Harvard College was founded in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Two years later, the college became home to North America's first known printing press, carried by the ship John of London. [6] [7] In 1639 the college (heretofore unnamed) [8] was named Harvard College in honor of deceased Charlestown ...