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In recent years, the Faculty was experiencing great difficulty recruiting junior members, Gerrity explains. "Department chairmen have been screaming at the dean." With inflation, she says, the real value of all Faculty salaries plummeted 12-15 percent over the last decade, and a recent confidential survey of about 15 competing...
In an age when high-paying jobs in scientific industry--particularly in the rapidly expanding field of bio-engineering--are increasingly tempting alternatives for academics in the sciences. Harvard's old-fashioned approach to compensating its professors is growing rare. Many universities are unabashed about letting the free market dictate...
As Rosovsky describes it, the Faculty's salary structure depends on a criterion that holds more currency at Harvard than the exigencies of extramural commerce: age. This is verifiably true of junior-level salaries, which are determined according to one of two fixed public scales that apply uniformly to all...
Administration officials deny that accusation. They contend that the Soviets have proliferated land-based warheads beyond any level justified by the legitimate needs of self-defense. Those warheads are now so numerous, so powerful and so accurate that they raise the specter of a pre-emptive strike against the U.S...
If plays were dice, Manhattan's Roundabout Theater would be rolling sevens and elevens. In the past year this eclectic off-Broadway group has mounted a wryly tender A Taste of Honey, fired off an ebulliently witty Misalliance, weighed hypocrisy and humanity on the scales of The Browning Version...