Libraries and museums of Harvard University

Libraries and museums of Harvard University

The Library System Harvard University focuses on the Widener Library in Harvard Yard and comprises over 80 libraries that hold about 15 million volumes. According to the American Library Association, this makes it the largest academic library in the United States, and one of the largest in the world.

Cabot Library, Lamont Library, and Widener Library are three of the most popular libraries for students to use, with easy access and central locations. There are rare books, manuscripts and other special collections throughout Harvard's libraries; Houghton Library, the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in the United States, and the Archive of the University of Harvard consist mainly of rare and unique materials. Collection oldest in the United States of maps, gazetteers, and atlases both old and new is stored in Pusey Library and open to the public. The largest collection of East Asian language material outside of East Asia is held in the Harvard-Yenching Library.

Harvard operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums:

• Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, designed by Le Cor busier, is home to the University's film archive and the department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
 

• The Harvard Art Museums, including:
 

• The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which includes ancient art, Asian, Islamic and later Indian
 

• The Busch-Reisinger Museum, formerly the Germanic Museum, covers the art of Central and Northern Europe.
 

• The Fogg Museum of Art, with galleries featuring history of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. Particular strengths are in Italian early Renaissance, British per-Raphaelite, and 19th century French art
 

• The Harvard Museum of Natural History complex, including:
 

• The Harvard Mineralogical Museum
 

• The Her barium of Harvard University, which contains the famous Blaschka Glass Flowers exhibit
 

• The Museum of Comparative Zoology
 

• The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, specializing in the cultural history and civilizations of the Western Hemisphere
 

• The Semitic Museum

Harvard University Research Institutes, Harvard University Research Societys.

Harvard University Research

• Berkman Center for Internet and Society

• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

• HKS Harvard / MIT Media Lab CID-Economic Complexity Observatory

• Clinical Research Institute Harvard

• Economic Research Institute of Harvard

• Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

• Quantitative Social Science Institute

• Laboratory for Nanomedicine (at the Harvard Medical School-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital)

• Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (one of Harvard's 14 schools)

• Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University, a research institute founded by post-doctoral work at Harvard University and the University Complutense in 1990, chaired by the presidents of both universities.

• Schepens Eye Research Institute

• WEB Du Bois Institute for African Research and Afro-American

• Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

The research centers attached to schools and departments

• Department of Psychology: Prosopagnosia Research Centers at Harvard University and University College London

• The Graduate School of Design: Center for Alternative Futures, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Center for Technology and Environment

• Harvard Law School: Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Law and Policy Institute (former Research Centre of European Law) Global, John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics and Business
Independent organizations affiliated to the university

• The Forsyth Institute

Harvard University College Rankings

Harvard University College Rankings

Internationally, Harvard is ranked third in both the QS World University Rankings and best annual World Universities by U.S. News & World Report in 2012. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings of the same academic year considered to be fourth in the list. But in his world ranking reputation, based on a survey of academics around the world and is a spin-off of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Harvard is still the first place. When the QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings were published in society as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings, Harvard was watched continuously as the best community college between 2004 and 2009. The institute also has topped the table Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), a position held since the first ARWU rankings were released in 2003.

Harvard undergraduate program ranked first among "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report and sixth by Forbes. The university is ranked 11th nationally by The Washington Monthly.

In the Global 200 Business Schools 2009 QS, Harvard was ranked first in North America.
In 2012, Harvard ranked first in a ranking University Academic Performance (URAP).

Academics of Harvard University, Harvard University Academics.

Academics of Harvard University, Harvard University Academics.

Harvard is a large research university, very residential. The university has been accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges since 1929. The university offers 46 undergraduate concentrations (majors), 134 graduate degrees, and 32 professional degrees. For the 2008-2009 academic year, Harvard granted 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 400 masters degrees, 512 doctoral degrees, and 4,460 professional degrees.

The four-year undergraduate program full time has a minority enrollment in the university and emphasizes instruction with "arts & sciences focus". Between 1978 and 2008, entering students were required to complete a "Curriculum" of seven classes outside of their concentration. Since 2008, college students had to complete courses in eight general categories: Aesthetic Education and interpretive understanding, Culture and Belief, Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning, Ethical Reasoning, Science of Living Systems, Science of the Physical Universe, Societies world, and the United States in the world. Harvard offers a comprehensive doctoral graduate program and there is a high level of coexistence between graduate and undergraduate degrees. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, The New York Times, and some students have criticized Harvard for its reliance on teaching fellows for some aspects of undergraduate education, they consider this to adversely affect the quality of the education.

Harvard's academic programs operate on a semester calendar beginning in early September and ends in mid-May. College students typically take four half-courses per semester and must maintain a four-course average to be considered full time. In many concentrations, students can elect to pursue a basic program or a honors program eligibility requires a thesis and / or advanced courses. Students graduating in the top 4-5% of the class are awarded degrees summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the class are awarded magna cum laude, and the next 30% of the class are awarded cum laude. Harvard has chapters of academic honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa and various committees and departments also award several hundred named prizes annually. Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of grade inflation, although there is evidence that the quality of students and their motivation have also increased. Harvard College reduced the number of students who receive Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "John Harvard Scholar" and "Harvard College Scholar" will now only 5 percent and the next 5 percent of each class.

College tuition for the 2009-2010 school year was $ 33,696 and the total cost of fees, room and board was $ 48,868. Under financial aid guidelines adopted in 2007, and it is not expected that parents of families with incomes under $ 60,000 to contribute money to the cost of attending Harvard for their children, including room and board. Families with incomes in the range of $ 60,000 to $ 80,000 contribute an amount of only a few thousand dollars a year. In December 2007, Harvard announced that families earning between $ 120,000 and $ 180,000 will only have to pay up to 10% of their annual household income for tuition. In 2009, Harvard offered grants totaling $ 414.1 million across all 11 divisions, $ 339.5 million came from institutional funds, $ 35.3 million of federal aid, and $ 39.2 million of other support outside. Grants amounting to 87.7% of the assistance of Harvard University for undergraduate students, with aid also provides loans (8.4%) and work-study (3.9%).

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.