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Seven members of Harvard Students Against Sweatshops (HSAS) met yesterday with top University officials to discuss the possibility of Harvard joining the Workers’ Rights Consortium (WRC)—a step HSAS favors...
HSAS has long agitated in protest of Harvard’s membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
Through a series of actions and even a striptease, the group has urged Harvard for three years to join the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC), a group run by labor and human rights organizations...
Harvard is currently a member of the Fair Labor Association, a nonprofit White House initiative to monitor labor practices around the world. HSAS wants Harvard to switch to the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), a labor-based independent monitoring group that they contend is the only organization consistent with Harvard’s labor policies...
...insane to worry about whether Harvard, Princeton, or for that matter Yale, is number 1, 2 or 3,” said Ronald G. Ehrenberg, the director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, in an e-mail message. Ehrenberg co-wrote a paper with James Monks of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education in the November/December issue of Chance Magazine that studied statistical trends in 30 colleges and universities...