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...year–decreasing budgets while managing a department with one of the lowest student to faculty ratios at Harvard. With the Faculty of Arts and Sciences facing down a $220 million budget deficit over the next two years, economic strain has already caused the department to cancel its junior seminars for next year. “We need to review everything we are doing in light of the tough budget decision that FAS is facing,” Campbell said. Stock said his successor was a “terrific choice” to take the reins...
...despite the tumultuous economy, the 2008-2009 recruiting season revealed a great commitment from our employer partners to hire Harvard students. Although recruiting volume was down approximately 10 percent in the fall and another 20 percent in the spring, most employers opted to reduce rather than cancel their recruiting efforts, hired Harvard students for both full-time and internship positions, and plan to hire again in 2009-2010. With strong support from Harvard alumni within their organizations, many employers hope to “protect” entry-level hiring as much as possible...
...living in London, had planned to fly to Los Angeles on April 30. But the conflicting travel advisories left him so uneasy that he decided to stay put. "If these large international bodies are having difficulty deciding where it's safe to travel, I thought it was better to cancel," he says of the trip he started planning two months ago. "I'm in no way assured that they understand the full extent of the epidemic, or that they have it under control...
...restrictions spreads, it's those kinds of inconveniences - not health concerns - that put some people off their vacation plans. Yvonne Worth, 50, a freelance editor in London, says she's debating whether to travel to New York and Massachusetts to visit old friends because she worries the airline will cancel her flight. "If I book a ticket and end up losing it because of travel restrictions, I may not get my money back," she says. "Maybe I'll go see somebody in Amsterdam instead." Apparently not even a deadly virus can kill the travel bug in some folks...
Some Harvard students studying in France may face the loss of a semester of education in the midst of a revolt that has gripped several of the nation’s universities since February. Schools in France have been forced to cancel classes and scramble for order while discontent with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s handling of a bold higher education reform program has erupted into strikes and walkouts. For some of the 12 Harvard undergraduates who, according to the Office of International Programs, are currently studying in Paris, the situation has posed difficulties. French professors have used...