<p>In academic circles, HC is very well known. The president of Cornell from 1995-2005 was an HC alum, btw. The current president of Harvard graduated from BMC. The former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities about 5-10 years ago graduated from BMC; in the last decade the former head of the influential Iowa Writer’s Workshop was an alum in addition to both chief editors of the LA Times and the NY Times ect…</p>
<p>I write a lot about HC’s sciences on CC because, yes, they happen to be phenomenal but also, as a science grad, I am most familiar with these departments and the significance of the sources/evidence I cite to make my case. Sorry if you interpreted my lack of discussion with other fields as a sign of something else. Please don’t get the impression that other disciplines are weak because they are not.</p>
<p>HC’s faculty in general is inter-changeable with top universities. I checked out some of the English department’s faculty profiles. As one example, one professor I read about graduated summa from Yale where he also got his PhD and taught there for a few years garnering teaching awards before coming to HC. Other professors in non-science departments are Rhodes scholars, Fulbright and Guggenheim winners, ect. A professor I had in the religion department in the 1990s left HC when asked by his alma mater (University of Chicago) to head their Religion department. In the 1980s, there was another professor in the department of religion who left HC to head Harvard’s Divinity school. That’s seriously very impressive when you think about it. </p>
<p>[Divinity</a> School Chooses Haverford Prof as Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1986/1/6/divinity-school-chooses-haverford-prof-as/]Divinity”>Divinity School Chooses Haverford Prof as Dean | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>