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...unclear how soon University officials will be able to gauge staff response to the program, as federal anti-discrimination employment laws mandate that employees be given at least 45 days to consider such an offer...
Once committed to the program, an acceptor cannot rescind his decision, but those who initially reject the offer will have seven days to reconsider. Employees who take the package will likely have to leave the University by June 30, Peters said, according to the individuals...
...news article "Harvard To Offer Retirement Incentives Next Week" incorrectly stated the total number of University staffers, the number of staffers eligible for early retirement packages, and the number of eligible employees falling specifically within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In fact, packages were offered to 1,600 staff members, not 1,000; 515 of those worked in FAS, not 700; and Harvard has many more staff members than the 3,500 reported in the article...
...hope we can offer one another the benefit of the doubt and recognize that there will be more sacrifices,” said University President Drew G. Faust. “This institution and all it has represented for so very long is more than worthy of those sacrifices...
...best bet is January classes, though these offerings should not bear any resemblance to what’s currently in the course catalog. The shorter January should offer lessons in the general life skills that we bookworms have so often missed—a wood-shop class, for instance—or academic takes on our hobbies and amusements, like deciphering the true meaning of rap lyrics. But the most effective way for the College to remove all semblance of a Harvard J-term to actual school (and therefore drudgery) is to ask its students to serve as teachers...