Word: eck
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...newspaper, which was founded in 1992 and relies more on contributions than sales for funding, will barely “squeak through the holidays,” according to Operations Director Randal Eck...
Spare Change, a publication of the Homeless Empowerment Project designed to both provide the poor and homeless with jobs and educate the public about issues related to homelessness and poverty, has weathered financial crises in the past. But Eck said the recent loss of a major donor has him more worried than ever before...
...what he describes as a “change in and loss of personnel” that led to a recent merger with Boston-based Whats Up magazine–which became a supplement in Spare Change– Eck said that the paper has alienated a member of the Buffet family who previously donated $40,000 a year to the publication...
...first considered for tenure in 1992. But he said he was told then that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences did not have the funds to create another professorship. When Asani was offered tenure at the University of Bonn in Germany that year, Harvard fought to keep him, Eck said, by making him a professor of the practice in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC) and the Study of Religion. The seat is a senior position with five-year contracts...
...last time our two departments reviewed it [the contract], we said, 'This is crazy!'"said Eck, whose office abuts Asani's in the Barker Center. "He has written more, taught with more effectiveness than most of the people in our departments, and the basis that he is staying here needs to change...