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...latest draft audit report, HEW charges the SPH with mismanagement of almost half of the $37.1 million the school received in the three-year period under investigation. Throughout the text of the document, HEW officials charge Harvard with sloppy and insufficient record-keeping and faulty supervision of expenditures...
...School, where grants make up almost half the operating budget, Wickenden says the support staff's annual turnover rate is between 25 and 40 per cent. But almost 70 per cent of the people leaving do so because they want to return to school, often to the Ed School itself. "A lot of employees are marking time between undergraduate and graduate schools," she says. "The higher turnover in support staff is frequently due to our hiring people taking their first or second jobs. They don't plan to stay in them...
...clerical and technical staff left. Its rate returned to about the University average of one-third last year. Cantor says he is not surprised by the high turnover, since the K-School had moved from Littauer Center to a new building. "Any organization that goes through rapid change almost inevitably experiences a fall-out. When the observatory lost the NASA program we had a whacking turnover rate. We all felt bad about it, but it happens. There is no one school at Harvard you can point to and say, 'Aha! They're the bad guys,'" Cantor says...
Harvard students surveyed today greeted the findings with skepticism, and men and women alike maintained an almost chauvinistic respect for the parental potential of the American...
...faculty, which settled with the administration last spring after a strike, has had trouble since then, Knox said. "B.U. has ignored the contract--almost every grievance has been sent to arbitration," she said...