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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatively easy for employees to move within non-exempt salary grades--one-third of Harvard's open positions are filled from within--but that the jump from secretarial or clerical work to administrative or professional jobs is a problem. "The trouble is that moving up in that area the number of positions becomes devilishly limited," Cantor says. A typical Harvard department might have ten office workers and one administrator, but an industry would have larger departments, with a foreman, three assistant foremen, six supervisors and many assistant supervisors under them...
...they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
...after a one year search the administration hired Saul L. Chafin betting that a change in the leadership would make the changes in the department more palatable. The odds seem to have played in its favor. Though Chafin has made questionable decisions in firing three men since he became number one, he has also taken pains to replace them so as to avoid any charges of intentional reductions in the force...
Nonetheless, the issue of job security continues to preoccupy the police. While the number of uniformed policemen remains at 41, the administration continues to hire more watchmen and student security guards, who the police contend are taking over their duties and reducing potential officer hirings...
Over the two-year period of heated debate on the morality and justifications for Harvard's South Africa-related investments, IBM remained Harvard's number two investment, and Ford and Eastman Kodak were dropped from the top ten. Harvard decreased its investments in Ford because of a downturn it predicted in the auto industry and demoted Eastman Kodak to an "average investment" over the two-year period because of the costs of the company's stock. The principal reasons for the movement of the two stocks were not, Walter M. Cabot, deputy University treasurer, says, considerations of the companies South...