【正文】 ents want to “make a difference in the world” by creating and disseminating critical we increasingly understand how to bring the elements of knowledgecreation together by crossing intellectual and disciplinary boundaries just as we cross international speak often of “one university,” for it is clear that we work most effectively when we unite Harvard’s unparalleled strengths across its schools and fields — and do so at every stage of the educational process, from College freshmen through our most acplished senior faculty new Harvard Global Health Institute is a case in point, engaging more than 250 faculty from across the university in addressing issues that range from postearthquake response in Haiti and Chile to reducing cardiovascular disease in the developing have established an undergraduate secondary field in Global Health, and over 1,000 College students are involved in courses, internships and related , the Harvard Center for the Environment draws on graduate and undergraduate students and more than a hundred faculty, in law, engineering, history, earth sciences, medicine, health policy and business — to look prehensively at problems like carbon capture and sequestration, or the implications of the Gulf oil spill for structures of environmental brings us finally to innovation, a third powerful force in higher education — and in the wider world in which higher education plays such an important and faculty working together in new ways and across disciplines, are developing wondrous things — from inhalable chocolate to inhalable tuberculosis undergraduates have invented a soccer ball that can generate enough power to light villages。Harvard Medical School’s enhanced financial aid policies now assist over 70% of its student American families, institutions of higher education face intensified financial challenges as our distinguished public universities, pressures on state funding threaten fundamental governor of Pennsylvania, for example, proposes cutting state appropriations for higher education by of the University of California system warned last week of a possible tuition increase of 32% in response to reduced state in Congress are threatening to reduce aid for needy students, and to constrain the federal funding that fuels scientific research at Harvard and at America’s other distinguished contrast, support for higher education and research is exploding in other parts of the China, for example, undergraduate student numbers have more than quadrupled in little over a decade。Commencement AddressTercentenary Theatre, Cambridge, MA May 26, 2011Distinguished faculty, alumni, students, staff, we celebrate the Class of 2011 and wele them to our alumni ranks, I feel a special sense of connection to those who just received their “first degrees,” to use the words with which I officially greeted them this began as president when they arrived as freshmen, and we have shared the past four years here worldchanging the global financial crisis, to a historic presidential election, to the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring — not to mention earthquakes, tsunamis and choices and circumstances these new alumni face are likely to be quite different from the ones they expected when they moved into Harvard Yard in September I hope and trust that they too are transformed — shaped by all they have learned and experienced as Harvard College departure marks a milestone for me as that prompts me, as Harvard enters its 375th year, to reflect on what these four years have meant for universities, and what universities must do in this time of worldwide challenges when knowledge is being ever more vital to our economies, our societies and to us has never mattered more to individual the midst of the Great Recession, the unemployment rate for college graduates in the United States was less than half that for those with just a high school with bachelor degrees earn half again as much as high school or professional degrees nearly double, on average, earnings education of course brings far more than economic believe that the graduates of institutions like Harvard are instilled with analytic and creative habits of mind, with a capacity for judgment and discernment that can guide them through a lifetime that promises an abundance of education is not just about has never mattered more to human progress and the mon of what we have undertaken at Harvard in these past four years reflects our fundamental sense of that responsibility: to educate individuals who will understand the difference between information and wisdom, who will pose the questions, and create the knowledge that can address the world’s problems, who can situate today’s realities in the context of the past even as we prepare for the universities have been deeply affected, as events have reshaped the educational landscape in the United States and cost of higher education has bee the source of even greater anxiety for American a time when college matters more than ever, it seems increasingly less to higher education is a national priority, and at Harvard we have significantly enhanced our financial aid policies to make sure that Harvard is attainable for talented students regardless of their financial is fundamental to sustaining Harvard’s than 60% of undergraduates received financial aid from Harvard this year。2011年福斯特就任哈佛大學校長屆滿四年，四年也是本科生完成學業(yè)的時間跨度，所以Class of 2011對于福斯特來說，有著不一樣的意義。2001年，福斯特進入哈佛大學，并擔任拉德克里夫高等研究院（Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study）的首任正式院長，該學院的前身是拉德克利夫學院。后由于出色的研究成果和教學，她獲任歷史學系教授。福斯特是哈佛大學歷史上第一位女校長，也是自1672年以來第一位沒有哈佛學習經歷的哈佛校長。and in modeling environments that promote dialogue and debate...The ideal and breadth of liberal education that embraces the humanities and arts as well as the social and natural sciences is at the core ofHarvard’s 。in unlocking and harnessing new knowledge。Business School students are launching more and more startups。按推算，老先生已經90歲以上高齡）That future enpasses a second power