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...Authority, the 2005 median income for a family of four in the Boston metro area is $82,600. This number is slightly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau’s last median income estimate for all of Massachusetts (in 2003), which showed that the state had the second highest median income in the nation. At $20 per hour with a 40-hour workweek and two weeks of vacation, two Harvard janitors would pull in $80,000 a year for their family. In essence, then, SLAM is demanding that janitors at Harvard should make nearly the median wage in Boston...
...professor at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) has been awarded the George Eastman Professorship at the University of Oxford, a prestigious visiting professorship that allows “American scholars of the highest distinction” to lecture at Oxford for one year. Frederick Schauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the KSG, will serve as a visiting professor for the 2007-08 academic year, and will concurrently hold a fellowship at Balliol College at Oxford. Schauer, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment, political theory, and constitutional law, said he first...
...benefit of more rankings is that colleges would tend less towards uniformity. For example, the U.S. News rankings give the highest faculty scores to colleges that hire full-time professors with the highest degrees in their fields. But this prioritizes research, not teaching, and so in order to rise in the rankings, colleges hire faculty not for teaching, but for research. This is not necessarily a bad thing. But when a single influential ranking defines success in one direction, schools that attempt divergence, or even balance, are pressured to conform for traveling another route. In this case, colleges are punished...
...members.In a speech Saturday morning on “The Future of Women and Minorities at Harvard,” Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds challenged students to hold Harvard accountable for increasing the representation of women in upper-level positions. Hammonds, the highest-ranking African American in the history of Harvard, chaired the Task Force on Women Faculty last year and in her new position is seeking to recruit female and minority candidates for faculty positions across the University.“Multiple reports on the status of women have been done since...
...will have to wrestle with the big issues that are plaguing the whole of German industry, not just its automakers: unit labor costs that are among the highest in the world, productivity that's been overtaken by many rivals and worries about losing its technological edge. In a blunt letter to Mercedes employees announcing the layoffs, Zetsche wrote that "our costs in all parts of the value chain are significantly higher than those of the best competitors" and that the company was dragging around too much production capacity. Becker, the former BMW economist, contends in a book published last month...