Organization and administration of Harvard University

Organization and administration of Harvard University

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is the primary responsibility of instruction at Harvard University, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Harvard, including Harvard Summer School and Harvard Extension School. There is also the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Harvard is governed by a combination of its Board of Supervisors and the President and Fellows of Harvard College (also known as the Harvard Corporation), who in turn appoints the President of Harvard University. There are 16,000 staff and faculty.

A faculty of approximately 2,410 professors, lecturers and instructors serve as of school year 2009-10, with 7,180 undergraduate and graduate students 13830. The school color is crimson, which is also the name of the Harvard sports teams and the daily newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The color was unofficially adopted (in preference to magenta) by an 1875 vote of the student, although the association with some form of red can be traced back to 1858, when Charles William Eliot, a young graduate student who would later become Harvard 21 and the oldest president (1869-1909), bought red bandanas for his crew so they could more easily be distinguished by spectators at a regatta.