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...year, an increase of $0.83, according to the terms of a five-year deal tentatively reached yesterday with the University. The deal with HERE Local 26, the union that represents Harvard’s 470 dining hall workers, boosts salaries by an average of 5.5 percent in the first contract year and 4.5 percent by the contract’s final year, marking a $4.15 per hour increase over five years—double the outcome of the union’s 2001 negotiations. The University also said it would pay workers during the four-day winter recess, a perk...
...employees. There are approximately 470 members of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union (HERE)/Local 26 at Harvard working in residential dining halls and campus restaurants, as well as in the Faculty Club.Our goal in the current negotiations is to reach agreement on a new contract that continues to provide HUDS employees with fair, competitive wages and comprehensive, high-quality health, welfare, and dental benefits. These benefits are provided to service employees working as few as 16 hours per week. Harvard also offers free or greatly subsidized educational opportunities that allow service employees to improve the quality...
Galbraith was a resident tutor in Winthrop House from 1935 to 1937. In 1939, he left the University when his contract was not renewed, instead teaching at Princeton University and the University of California and working with the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904. Galbraith he returned to Harvard in 1948. He was offered tenure just one year later...
...Opal Mehta” off their shelves until a revised edition could be put together. By May 2—after similarities were found between Viswanathan’s novel and books by Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie, and Sophie Kinsella—the sophomore’s two-book contract had been cancelled and Little, Brown had decided not to rerelease “Opal Mehta.” The entire sequence of events played out in just over a week.Amid the controversy, administrators maintained that the College’s policies against plagiarism only applied to academic course work...
...national fervor.”Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba also says that the controversy has drawn so much attention because of the “brand name” that Harvard carries. In addition, Verba says that the $500,000 advance given to Viswanathan for her two-book contract added to the media attention.CHEATING IS STILL RAREWhile these incidents show that speculation of cheating occasionally come to the surface at the College, several professors say that they have only rarely encountered instances of dishonest student behavior. Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry emeritus Elias J. Corey writes...