Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tension junior faculty members report. Assistant professors are usually hired for five years; if they get promoted to associate, they get another three years or so. Then it's up or out--usually out. "The utter lack of long-term prospects is disappointing, and I think it's bad for morale," says one assistant professor contacted last month in a brief Crimson survey of junior faculty sentiment...
...good news could not overshadow two important bits of bad information, which strike at issues fundamental to the long-term financial health of Harvard--governmental relations and fundraising. The resolution of a long-brewing dispute with the federal government over the management of research funds here and the slowing of Harvard's fundraising drive were ample reminder of the frailey of Harvard's wealth, even in these heady days of economic recovery...
...first piece of bad news was out in October. Harvard agreed to repay $4.6 million to the government, settling a year-long dispute over charges that the University had mishandled federal research funds at the Medical School and the School of Public Health. The charge arose out of two major audits conducted at the schools in the mid-1970s...
...second piece of bad financial news had to do with an even more integral component of Harvard prosperity--fundraising. After far outstripping its goals for the first four years, the $350 million Harvard Campaign, which is going primarily to beefing up programs in the college, has begun to lose steam. The fund drive stood at just over $290 million in May with just seven months left to rustle up $70 million...
...actual news was not as bad as the reports suggested. It almost never is where Harvard is concerned, given the propensity of the media to turn events here into mega trends. It is true that a small band of determined speech-wreckers succeeded in drowning Weinberger out at times, clearly abridging his right to free speech. But the vast majority of students in attendance restricted the cheering or booing to within legitimate bounds of self-expression...