Fornew readers and those who request to be “好友good friends” please read my 公告栏 first.
Every ten years, most universities and colleges in the US go through what is known as an accreditation process. An outside group of scholars and administrators unconnected with the school in question are asked to visit the school for three days, ask questions, and issue a verdict/report about whether or not the school meet the standards to award the undergraduate and other graduate degrees. The process is quite a rigorous one and requires a great deal of preparation on the part of the university/college being thus examined. In preparation for the accreditation process for Harvard next month, the university did a 141 pages two year self study and evaluation report which is a treasure drove of information about every aspect of the University you can think of. It even contains information, historical and/or obscure, that I did not know after being here for 50 years (employed for 47 years). The URL for this report is