Word: staffs
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...salary certification system." "The payroll distribution system and related internal controls are not in compliance with federal regulations," the 60-page document charges. "The system that was used and currently in use does not provide reasonable assurance that direct costs for the personal services of professorial and other professional staff were either proper or reasonable...
...School, where grants make up almost half the operating budget, Wickenden says the support staff's annual turnover rate is between 25 and 40 per cent. But almost 70 per cent of the people leaving do so because they want to return to school, often to the Ed School itself. "A lot of employees are marking time between undergraduate and graduate schools," she says. "The higher turnover in support staff is frequently due to our hiring people taking their first or second jobs. They don't plan to stay in them...
Cantor and a University-wide personnel staff of about 75 people are in charge of making sure the non-Faculty positions run smoothly. To that end, the personnel representatives from each school meet twice a month to discuss University policy, recruitment strategies and to share tips, Wickenden says. "And there is a regular informal flow of complaint memos, bitches, whatever goes on throughout the different schools," Cantor says. To reduce confusion, the personnel office distributed a thick memo detailing all personnel rules to every department...
...would be easy to confuse policy at Harvard. The University has a yearly turnover rate of one-third among its supporting staff. Cantor says it's a standard figure for educational institutions: "Most universities, Harvard included, have traditionally had large segments of staff made up of people in a transient stage of life. Their spouses may be going to graduate schools or they may want to get work experience... The system is geared to accept a changing work force which is non-academic...
Furthermore, schools heavily dependent on research funds generally have higher turnover rates because jobs connected with a project end when the grants run out. Wickenden points out that many of these staff members had planned to work at Harvard for only the period of their grants, but she adds that if support staff members who have lost their funding still want to work within the University, she helps find jobs for them...