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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only way that we could get the new faculty member (Jules Brody) the 6 per cent interest rate that we offer under the Cambridge Option plan," Zeckhauser said, referring to the University's latest program for providing financial assistance to faculty members purchasing property in the Cambridge area. "He couldn't be on hand to get the property for a few days," she added...
...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...
...removed quits because of a spouse returning to school a safe bet would be that there would be a 15-to-20 per cent turnover here," Cantor says. He points to an 18-per-cent turnover rate in most industries as a fairly stable norm...
...School had also had a turnover rate of 61 per cent in the school year 1977-78, when 27 of its 44 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...
...firmly embeded institutional realities, morale is better, a new police chief has ushered in many of the extralegal union demands made three years ago. And with a full-fledged recession in gear and spiraling inflation, this is simply not a good year for extracting more than 7 per cent wage hikes and better benefits...