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Liz Murray. Elizabeth Murray (born September 23, 1980) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. [1][2] Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime 's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). [3]
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision [1][2][3][4] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes (excepting military academies) violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
The Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) is the largest of the twelve graduate schools of Harvard University, when measured by the number of degree-seeking students. Formed in 1872, GSAS is responsible for most of Harvard's graduate degree programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College is Harvard University's traditional undergraduate program, offering AB (Bachelor of Arts) and SB (Bachelor of Science) degrees.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether Harvard racially discriminates by favoring applicants with ties to donors and alumni in its admissions ...
Hilary Whitehall Putnam (/ ˈpʌtnəm /; July 31, 1926 – March 13, 2016) was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of science. [5]
Dr Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, quit just six months and two days into the job. Her period in charge of the university, which was founded in September 1636, is the shortest in its ...
The Bowdoin Prizes are prestigious awards given annually to Harvard University undergraduate and graduate students. [1] From the income of the bequest of Governor James Bowdoin, AB 1745, prizes are offered to students at the university in graduate and undergraduate categories for essays in the English language, in the natural sciences, in Greek and in Latin. [2]