/kloc-at the end of 0/5, Columbus opened the Atlantic waterway from Europe to America, and Europeans crossed the ocean to America. /kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, the first batch of British immigrants arrived in North America, where they opened their own "Garden of Eden"-New England.
Among the immigrants, there are more than 65,438+000 Puritans who received classical higher education at Oxford and Cambridge universities. In order to enable their descendants to receive such education in their new homes, they established Harvard College, the first institution in American history, on the Charles River in Massachusetts in 65,438+0636.
Historical evolution:
199 1 year, Lu became the 26th president. In order to better coordinate the relationship between the college and the teachers, he launched a centralized academic plan for the whole school, aiming at determining the most important and priority parts of Harvard.
In addition, Lu also emphasized the responsibilities of universities: excellent undergraduate education, the doors of universities are always open to people of different economic classes, and how research universities can adapt to the era of rapid information growth and serious financial constraints and meet challenges in a freely expressed society.
At the end of the 20th century, the status of women in Harvard began to rise. At the beginning, female students were concentrated in Radcliffe College. Although more and more female students are willing to enroll in Harvard courses, Harvard students are still mostly male, with an average of only one woman in every five students.
From 65438 to 0999, Radcliffe College officially became Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies of Harvard University. Drew Gilpin Faust, then dean, became the first female president of Harvard University in 2007, and the fourth female president of an Ivy League school after the University of Pennsylvania, Brown University and Princeton University.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Harvard University, USA