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Relatives. Ewart Guinier (father) Maurice Paprin (uncle) Carol Lani Guinier ( / ˈlɑːni ɡwɪˈnɪər / LAH-nee gwin-EER; April 19, 1950 – January 7, 2022) was an American educator, legal scholar, and civil rights theorist. She was the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the first woman of color appointed to a tenured ...
The President and Fellows of Harvard College, also called the Harvard Corporation or just the Corporation, is the smaller and more powerful of Harvard University 's two governing boards. It refers to itself as the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere. [1] At full capacity, as of 2024, the corporation consists of twelve fellows as well ...
Drew Gilpin Faust 2007–2018 10 years, 11 months and 29 days First female president.
Lawrence Seldon Bacow ( / ˈbækaʊ /; born August 24, 1951) is an American economist and retired university administrator. Bacow served as the 12th president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011 and as the 29th president of Harvard University from 2018 to 2023. [1] Before that, he was the Hauser leader-in-residence at the Center for Public ...
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.
History of Harvard University. 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 ...
Leonard Hoar (1630 – November 28, 1675) was an English-born American Congregational minister and educator, who spent a short and troubled term as President of Harvard College. Life [ edit ] Born in Gloucestershire about 1630, he was the fourth son of Charles Hoare, by Joanna Hinkesman of Gloucester.
Harvard Society of Fellows. The Society of Fellows is a group of scholars selected at the beginnings of their careers by Harvard University for their potential to advance academic wisdom, upon whom are bestowed distinctive opportunities to foster their individual and intellectual growth. Junior fellows are appointed by senior fellows based upon ...