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According to Provost Steven E. Hyman, the idea of an ombudsperson arose in the wake of the Katz Committee report on labor and wage policy at Harvard issued last year. The idea was to address the “perception that some employees feel they have no ‘safe harbor’ to take concerns,” Hyman wrote in an e-mail...
...Where [ombuds] offices exist...they serve the purpose of providing individuals with a confidential place to take concerns about their work or student life, about their co-workers or their managers, or about Harvard policy,” Hyman said...
...schools with a tilt toward public service have wealthy enough alums to fundraise on the scale desired. FAS has a pool of wealthy donors—who would likely be solicited for all the goals—but would stand to benefit from coordination with other schools as well, Hyman says...
With a new budgetary review process, Hyman has increased oversight of the schools’ spending and academic priorities...
...Summers is moving on fundraising as well. Planning was too advanced at the Law School and Business School to reconsider their separate campaigns, Hyman says...