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...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...
...glance at the turnover rates would make it appear that the University is losing a lot of its employees. And quite a few people who begin working here are not happy. But Cantor points out that the majority are indeed satisfied working for academia. "Most feel working in an educational environment is more attractive, more relaxed, open and informal than industry," Wickenden says. Cantor points out that once employees have stayed at Harvard more than three years, "the turnover rate is almost invisible." Who knows, maybe they want that Harvard chair...
Harvard has a lot of art to offer --but you wouldn't know it by looking at the course catalogue...
...time the average class completes its four-year tour in Cambridge, a quarter of the men and about a third of the women will have visited the MHS. ("Women," Walters explains, "are more sensitive to interpersonal issues and more willing to ask for help.") While a lot of students have the notion that most MHS patients are counselled on a semi permanent basis, Walters says the majority of the cases his office handles are short-term and 'crisis"-oriented. The average student, Walters notes, "may see us in his junior year for three or four visits and then again briefly...
...other college health officials are reluctant to release actual figures, he says that the number of suicides a year at Harvard is almost negligible. Because there are so few cases, UHS officials hesitate to reveal any facts, for fear that identities may be discovered. "You hear a lot about the suicide rate going up among the young people in the country," Walters admits, but he adds quickly that this trend has not hit Harvard. He doesn't beat around the bush; when you ask him why students here don't fit into national molds, he says simply...