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Beginning with the freshman entering in the fall of 1982, students must take eight half-year courses spread among the five areas. This year freshmen must take any two Core courses as part of the transitional Gen Ed requirement. Aside from these five areas, the Core eventually will set requirements in mathematics, foreign language and expository writing...
...Ed 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...
...causes employee morale to topple because the depressed economy spills over into the workers' lives and job performance. Still, Wickenden says she doesn't sense any waves of discontent because of tight money; in fact, she says that in ten years of working in the personnel office at the Ed School, "I don't remember anyone leaving because they weren't getting enough money...
...adds only about a fourth of Harvard's employees are unhappy in their jobs, and more than half are contented. Wickenden says job dissatisfaction is the least frequently cited reason for leaving jobs at the Ed School...
Wilson offered his course under Gen Ed as Natural Sciences 6. But Wilson this year has adjusted the course to fit more precisely the Core guidelines...