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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The president of Harvard University is the chief administrator of Harvard University and the ex officio president of the Harvard Corporation.[1] Each is appointed by and is responsible to the other members of that body, who delegate to the president the day-to-day running of the university.

Harvard's current president is Alan Garber, who took office on January 2, 2024, following the resignation of Claudine Gay. In December 2025, the Harvard Corporation announced his term would be extended indefinitely.[2]

Role

The president plays an important part in university-wide planning and strategy. Each names a faculty's dean (and, since the foundation of the office in 1994, the university's provost), and grants tenure to recommended professors. However, the president is expected to make such decisions after extensive consultation with faculty members.

Recently, however, the job has become increasingly administrative, especially as fund-raising campaigns have taken on central importance in large institutions such as Harvard. Some have criticized this trend to the extent it has prevented the president from focusing on substantive issues in higher education.[3]

Each president is professor in some department of the university and teaches from time to time.

The university maintains an official residence for the president's use, which from 1912 until 1971, was President's House, and since then has been Elmwood.[4]

Influence

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Five Harvard University presidents, sitting in order of when they served. Left-to-right: Josiah Quincy III, Edward Everett, Jared Sparks, James Walker and Cornelius Conway Felton.

Harvard presidents have traditionally influenced educational practices nationwide. Charles W. Eliot, for example, originated America's familiar system of a smorgasbord of elective courses available to each student; James B. Conant worked to introduce standardized testing; Derek Bok and Neil L. Rudenstine argued for the continued importance of diversity in higher education.

History

At Harvard's founding it was headed by a "schoolmaster", Nathaniel Eaton. In 1640, when Henry Dunster was brought in, he adopted the title of president. Since Harvard was founded for the training of Puritan clergy, and even though its mission was soon broadened, nearly all presidents through the end of the 18th century were in holy orders.

All presidents from Leonard Hoar in 1672 through Nathan Pusey in 1971 were graduates of Harvard College. Of the presidents since Pusey, nearly all earned a graduate degree at Harvard. The only exception has been Drew Gilpin Faust, who was the first president since the seventeenth century with no earned Harvard degree.

Presidents of Harvard

The following persons have served as president of Harvard University:[5]

No. Image Presidents Term start Term end Length Template:Refh
Headmaster of the New College (1637–1639)
– File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn 1637 1639 Template:Time interval [6]
Presidents of Harvard College (1639–1780)
1 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn August 27, 1640 October 24, 1654 Template:Time interval [7]
2 File:HarvardPresidentCharlesChauncy.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". November 2, 1654 February 19, 1672Template:Efn Template:Time interval [8]
3 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn December 10, 1672 March 15, 1675 Template:Time interval [9]
acting File:Urian Oakes tomb - Cambridge, MA.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". April 7, 1675 February 2, 1680 Template:Time interval
4 February 2, 1680 July 25, 1681Template:Efn Template:Time interval [10][8]
5 File:Harvard president John Rogers.png Script error: No such module "Sort". April 10, 1682 July 12, 1684Template:Efn Template:Time interval [11][12][8]
acting File:Appletons' Mather Richard - Increase.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn June 11, 1685 June 23, 1686 Template:Time interval
rector June 23, 1686 June 27, 1692 Template:Time interval
6 June 27, 1692 June 29, 1701 Template:Time interval [13][8]
acting File:Appletons' Willard Simon - Samuel.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn September 6, 1701 September 12, 1707 Template:Time interval [14]
7 File:John Leverett.gif Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn January 14, 1708 May 3, 1724Template:Efn Template:Time interval [8][15]
8 File:BenjaminWadsworth 1stChurch Boston.png Script error: No such module "Sort". July 7, 1725 March 16, 1737Template:Efn Template:Time interval [12][8]
9 File:John Singleton Copley - Edward Holyoke (1689-1769) - H6 - Harvard Art Museums.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn 1737 1769Template:Efn Template:Time interval [12][8]
acting File:JohnWinthropAstronomer.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn 1769 1769 [16]
10 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn May 21, 1770 December 1, 1773 Template:Time interval [17][18]
acting File:JohnWinthropAstronomer.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn 1773 1774 [19]
11 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn July 18, 1774 August 30, 1780 Template:Time interval [8][20]
Presidents of Harvard University (1780–present)
acting File:Edward Wigglesworth II.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". 1780 1781 [21]
12 File:Coat of Arms of Joseph Willard.svg Script error: No such module "Sort". September 5, 1781 September 25, 1804Template:Efn Template:Time interval [22]
acting File:Eliphalet Pearson.png Script error: No such module "Sort". 1804 1806
13 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort". May 6, 1806 July 17, 1810Template:Efn Template:Time interval [23]
acting File:Henry Ware Sr. (1764-1845).jpeg Script error: No such module "Sort". 1810 1810 [24]
14 File:JohnThorntonKikland.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn November 14, 1810 April 2, 1828 Template:Time interval [25]
acting File:Henry Ware Sr. (1764-1845).jpeg Script error: No such module "Sort". 1828 1829
15 File:Josiah Quincy 1772-1864.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". January 29, 1829 August 27, 1845 Template:Time interval [26]
16 File:Edward Everett, 1794-1865, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left (cropped closein 3x4).jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn February 5, 1846 February 1, 1848 Template:Time interval [27]
17 File:Jared Sparks.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". February 1, 1849 February 10, 1853 Template:Time interval [28]
18 File:James Walker Harvard.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". February 10, 1853 January 26, 1860 Template:Time interval [29]
19 File:Cornelius Conway Felton (cropped).jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". February 16, 1860 February 26, 1862Template:Efn Template:Time interval [30]
acting File:Andrew Preston Peabody.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". 1862 1862
20 File:Thomas Hill b1818.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". October 6, 1862 September 30, 1868 Template:Time interval [31]
acting File:Andrew Preston Peabody.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". 1868 1869 [32]
21 File:Appletons' Eliot Charles William.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn March 12, 1869 May 19, 1909 Template:Time interval [33][34][35][36]
acting File:Henry Pickering Walcott (page 233 crop).jpg Henry Pickering WalcottTemplate:Efn 1900 1901 [37]
1905 1905
22 File:Picture of Abbott Lawrence Lowell.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". May 19, 1909 June 21, 1933 Template:Time interval [38][39]
23 File:James Conant 1932.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn 1933 1953 Template:Time interval [40]
24 File:Nathan Pusey Boston College 1963 (cropped).JPG Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn June 1, 1953 June 30, 1971 Template:Time interval [41][42]
25 File:Derek Bok.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". July 1, 1971 June 30, 1991 Template:Time interval [43]
acting Henry RosovskyTemplate:Efn 1984 1984 [44]
1987 1987 [45][46]
26 File:Noimage.svg Script error: No such module "Sort". July 1, 1991 June 30, 2001 Template:Time interval [47][48]
acting Albert CarnesaleTemplate:Efn November 29, 1994 February 1995 [49][50][51][52]
27 File:Lawrence Summers 2012.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn July 1, 2001 June 30, 2006 Template:Time interval [53][54][55][56][57]
interim File:Derek Bok.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". July 1, 2006 June 30, 2007 Template:Time interval [58][8]
28 File:Women in Economic Decision-making Drew Gilpin Faust (8414040540) (cropped).jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn July 1, 2007 June 30, 2018 Template:Time interval [8][59][60]
29 File:Lawrence Bacow in San Francisco pictured 2006.jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". July 1, 2018 June 30, 2023 Template:Time interval [8][61][62]
30 File:Inauguration of Claudine Gay as President of Harvard University (3) (cropped).jpg Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Efn July 1, 2023 January 2, 2024 Template:Time interval [63][64]
interim File:Harvard Alumni Day 2025 - Alan Garber 28 (cropped).jpg Script error: No such module "Sort". January 2, 2024 August 2, 2024 Template:Time interval [65][66]
31 August 2, 2024 present Template:Time interval [67]

Table notes: Template:Notelist

Timeline of Harvard University presidential terms

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References

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