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Founded in 1636 by vote of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's General Court and named in 1639 for its first major benefactor, the clergyman John Harvard, Harvard College is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It grew from a small colonial school for training clergy into a major research university and remains a reference point for the history of American higher education.
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Howard Gardner, Thinkers Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences while on the Harvard faculty.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Thinkers Du Bois's doctoral work at Harvard preceded his career as an educator and sociologist.
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Founded in 1636, and named Harvard College in 1639 in honor of its first benefactor, Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
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Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ruling that race-based affirmative action programs in most college admissions violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1948 until his retirement in 1974.
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He is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University.
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in 1895, he was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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On October 28, 1636, Harvard, the first college in the American colonies, was founded.
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