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...Jehn wrote in an e-mail. “I’m confident that [the administration] will continue to take seriously our program’s request for better preceptor pay that reflects our Expos faculty’s high qualifications, their importance to a core academic mission at Harvard, and their cost of living in one of the nation’s most expensive urban areas.”In the past, Jehn has been an outspoken critic of the administration for underpaying its employees. In 2001, Jehn—then an Expos head preceptor—published...
News that the administration is considering offering professors an early retirement incentive is worrying, especially in conjunction with the ongoing hiring freeze FAS implemented last November. The faculty buyout has the potential to harm Harvard’s educational mission if it is carried out with the hiring freeze still in place. The early retirement incentive is similar to one offered to staff two months ago and is part of a series of measures intended to pare down the faculty’s budget, which is expected to run a $220 million deficit over the next two years...
While cost-cutting measures are certainly necessary given the FAS financial situation, trimming the faculty to decrease costs harms a central mission of the University to maintain the highest standard of education possible. Measures that directly threaten Harvard’s quality of education should be a true last resort...
With the potential to harm Harvard’s academic mission, FAS should not implement this buyout, and if they find it necessary to do so, the hiring freeze should first be lifted. We appreciate the need for cost-cutting measures in these difficult economic times, but the University’s mission is to provide education of the highest caliber. Intentionally decreasing the size of the faculty is inconsistent with that mission and should only be seen as a last resort...
...many faiths. All four members of the panel discussion agreed that religious leaders are uniquely suited to inspire people to protect the environment. But they said that sparking such inspiration is an enormous challenge. “It is difficult to frame in terms of religious tradition or current mission,” said panelist Willis J. Jenkins, assistant professor of social ethics at Yale Divinity School. “Environmental issues have to make theological sense. They have to make a community come alive.” In that vein, each panelist discussed practical ways to describe environmentalism...