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Chronic understaffing exacerbates the resource problem. OFA Director of Programs Cathy McCormick calls understaffing and lack of space “burning emergency-level issues.” Just two employees are responsible for the technical needs of every Harvard theater space outside the Loeb, taking care of safety and training for hundreds of students a semester. “We have kept kids from getting injured literally by running from space to space,” McCormick says. But she says FAS shot down the OFA’s request to add a new technical position...
Funding for undergraduate arts is already subpar, McCormick says, even without the current fiscal austerity. The OFA’s unrestricted funding from FAS has grown at the constant FAS-wide rate of 2 percent per year. But after Harvard reclassified hundreds of employees last year to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act, requiring them to fill out timesheets and paying them overtime, the OFA has borne a disproportionate load, as its employees often work odd hours to maintain theater spaces and box offices. McCormick and Memorial Hall Complex Director Eric Engel say the changes cost...
According to Office for the Arts (OFA) Program Director Cathleen McCormick, student work may also be displayed in the heavily-transversed Holyoke Arcade in the near future...
Building such a space isn’t easy; McCormick adds that safety is also an important concern when finding and creating new display spaces...
...McCormick says technical constraints—like lighting and wall room—make it hard to simply use other spaces as makeshift display spaces...