Is it quite interesting that Iowa State University would be named the national college student clearinghouse?
Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. It is a member of the Ivy League. The institution was named Harvard College on March 13, 1639, after its first principal donor, a young clergyman named John Harvard. Harvard’s founding in 1636 came in the form of an act of the colony’s Great and General Court. By all accounts the chief impetus was to allow the training of home-grown clergy so the Puritan colony would not need to rely on immigrating graduates of England’s Oxford and Cambridge universities for well-educated pastors, “dreading,” as a 1643 brochure put it, “to leave an illiterate Ministry to the Churches.” In its first year, seven of the original nine students left to fight in the English Civil War. Harvard was also founded as a school to educate American Indians in order to train them as ministers a
Only about one week ago, the Iowa State University was named the research centerpiece of a new national community college clearinghouse. Minnesota Governor and Education Commision of the States (ECS) Chair Tim Pawlenty made the announcement back on July 9th. Hopefully, the university will live up to its newfound reputation. Sources: IowaPolitics.
