Word: leadership
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...Campaign and its single demand for a minimum $10 per hour living wage for every service worker at Harvard. This $10 figure is derived in part from the proposed living wage ordinance for the city of Cambridge. The studies of the National Low-Income Housing Commission, the Women's Leadership Forum and other local agencies estimate wages of closer to $15 per hour necessary to live in the Cambridge/Boston area...
...along that the task force must decide how, not whether, to implement the living wage, and the provost made clear in our recent meeting that the task force has no such charge. We left the meeting cognizant that two potential channels for the implementation of a living wage--real leadership by the president and provost or the positive conclusions of a task force with the power to implement according to a certain deadline--have been simultaneously closed...
Harvard has an extraordinary opportunity not to react to our demands with strictly technical arguments and task forces but to be a model for the nation and the world of how a University community should exist. This requires real courage and real leadership on the part of Rudenstine and Fineberg. In 1636, a little College was founded in search of Veritas. Since then that mission has been plastered across this magnificent campus and its crest cleaned and buffed by service workers. It is time we apply this search inwardly, to reexamine the way Harvard values members of its own community...
...Campaign and its single demand for a minimum $10 per hour living wage for every service worker at Harvard. This $10 figure is derived in part from the proposed living wage ordinance for the city of Cambridge. The studies of the National Low-Income Housing Commission, the Women's Leadership Forum and other local agencies estimate wages of closer to $15 per hour necessary to live in the Cambridge/Boston area...
...permanent departure from the ice exposes a leadership crisis in the NHL. A new prophet needs to be appointed to continue the work he started and attempt to raise hockey's profile...