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Former interim SEAS Dean Frans A. Spaepen, who also serves on the C-9, said that budget-cut discussions “have not been part of the C-9 business so far.” But Howe said it is “conceivable” that the C-9’s intermittent budget discussions at meetings could be part of the working group’s agenda...
...According to union representatives within Harvard, the administration’s most recent budget-cut tactic has been to implement hour reductions among staff while still expecting essentially the same amount of work to be done in less time. Although hour reductions appear to be a compromise, and perhaps a better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health...
...Kidd says that the Dean is “a very strong proponent of the College and holds her own in meetings with FAS.” And though students criticized the timing of budget-cut announcements, which came during Reading Period, McLoughlin says that Hammonds had actually convinced other, higher-level University administrators to disclose the cuts before students left for summer...
...compromises that will keep students safe within budgetary restrictions. Despite the outcry on campus through private and public e-mails from students, parents, faculty, and alumni, as yet, a week after the announced cuts, we have received no sign that the administration is listening. MIT is leading a similar budget-cut initiative and is trying to incorporate community feedback, even streamlining the process of recognizing the best ideas. Its website asks the MIT community to post suggestions to the “Idea Bank” and allows others to view these responses and rate the ones they find...
...While these solutions to lack of open communication between administrators and students would provide short-term relief, the current budget-cut confusion is reflective of a larger and more permanent problem with College governance. For too long, decisions at Harvard have been made behind closed doors, and a lack of student input in major university policies continues to be a problem...