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...workforce” in the face of an unprecedented fiscal crisis, discussions with union partners are still underway, making it “premature” to determine when such changes to staff positions might occur. Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith said in April that the administration would not announce any plans for layoffs before the summer, but beyond that, the University has not released any timeline. Rumors about prospective job cuts have offered dates ranging from June 10 to the end of the month. With layoffs looming, some have continued to rally on behalf...
...April, Smith unveiled “reshaping”—a general charge to implement broad structural changes that have yet to be determined. The news came a few weeks after the University announced in mid-March that the endowment payout—the school’s chief source of revenue—would fall by more than 15 percent over the next two years. “Reshaping” had replaced “resizing” (what happened to the coffee at afternoon meetings) as the new buzzword. The concept arose organically from University...
...adds that he “suspects” the new medical school policy will “closely align” with a new policy from Partners HealthCare, which owns two of Harvard’s largest affiliated hospitals. Partners chartered stringent regulations in April, imposing a blanket ban on gifts and forbidding administrators from having stock options in companies for which they hold board membership...
...World” category, or more mathematical rigor in order to make it fall under “Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning,” according to Li. Although Mankiw declined an interview request for this article, he wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson in April 2008 that the Task Force on General Education had “inadequate appreciation of the role of analytic social science,” and that the debate over where Ec10 fits in Gen Ed is “a symptom of these flaws.” The Economics Department?...
...Faust will confer 6,777 degrees to the Class of 2009 and students of all of Harvard’s graduate schools in today’s 358th Commencement exercises. U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will deliver the keynote address. University officials announced in April that Chu would be speaker, highlighting his commitment to pursuing alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed him for his cabinet post...