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Robert A. Rotner, who currently manages Harvard's budgets for the central administration, is expected to move into his new position as associate dean of the Faculty for administration in January, pending routine Corporation approval, Harvard officials said yesterday...
Farming the grounds under mezzadria "makes Harvard a responsible landowner in the Florence area," Rotner adds...
Under the system, farmers are free to leave the land and benefit from the local government's retirement and welfare system. Rotner, who has done extensive analyses of the villa's finances, says the workers by law receive wages on par with other Italian farmers, which in some cases exceed blue-collar wages in Italy...
...think Harvard made [the laborers terms] better or worse" when it inherited I Tatti. Rotner says, calling mezzadria a harmomous relationship" between the villa and the four families...
Harvard plans to farm the land indefinitely, because "the land is very much an integral part of I Tatti," Rotner says. All decisions about the villa's operation are made by Director Craig H. Smyth, who oversees the scholarly work of about a dozen visiting fellows each year...