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Failing to complete the decennial United States Census is costly??local and state governments can lose thousands of dollars per absentee American, while underrepresented communities risk losing additional resources and representation. Understandably, then, bureaucrats and activists are concerned about the roughly 700,000 African Americans unaccounted for in the 2000 Census. Kim M. Williams wants to help. Williams, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School, was appointed late last month to the Census Advisory Committee on the African American Population. “She’s one of the leading scholars on the multiracial movement...

Author: By Jeremy S. Singer-vine, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HKS Prof Appointed to Census Group | 5/13/2008 | See Source »

...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) proceeds with a plan requiring departments to preassign teaching fellow (TF) positions to graduate students, some professors are pushing for a more radical—and costly??transformation of the TF system that they say would improve teaching quality...

Author: By William C. Marra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Push TF Reform | 11/30/2004 | See Source »

Meetings between faculty and the dean at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire—which the staff member had questioned as too costly??will now take place in Cambridge for a savings of $50,000, Newman said...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: KSG Lays Off Staff Members To Trim Budget Deficit | 6/4/2002 | See Source »

...trimming wasteful government spending and “retrieving” tax revenues from the wealthiest one percent of the population, Stein said these programs—commonly thought of as being costly??could work while only minimally affecting the economy...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Greens Host Stein Talk | 3/6/2002 | See Source »

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