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...letter called for Harvard to provide details within roughly two weeks about the budgetary quandary that forced the construction slowdown, as well as an outline of the slowdown??s impact on contracted workers. Menino also wrote that within 30 days, Harvard should provide a community impacts mitigation plan for the construction slowdown, as well as a proposed schedule for the development of the Institutional Master Plan for the Allston campus that identifies a “transformative project for the community...
...sponsored the event with SAI and the Harvard Foundation, said he appreciated Summers’ interest in the rise of South Asia. “President Summers obviously understood this in a way that few others at Harvard do. We’re concerned there will be a slowdown?? under Harvard’s next president. Arjun Vasan ’07, co-president of SAA, said he felt the discussion would motivate people to study abroad and take more classes in South Asian language and culture. “Harvard does have these resources to do great...
...letter to all faculty members 10 days later, Kirby explained the sharp slowdown??University Hall has projected a net increase of only three professors for the Faculty this academic year, compared to an average of 21 during Kirby’s first three years as dean—by pointing to a higher-than-expected acceptance rate among candidates who were offered FAS appointments. Professors also report being told of other financial pressures, most notably construction costs that have exceeded projections...
...What’s worrisome about those explanations is that they suggest more than a one-year postponement of growth,” Rosenblum said of the three reasons offered for the hiring slowdown??faculty costs, construction costs, and the capital campaign delay...
Equally ambiguous is the hiring slowdown??s effect on recent FAS initiatives to increase faculty diversity...