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According to data compiled by GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol, Harvard offered a $19,700 stipend and two summers of support to incoming humanities students this year. The packages fell short of those offered at other universities, such as MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, which all provided at least $20,000 and four summers of financial support...
...their employer institution’s performance in 12 categories. Among the categories used to gauge junior faculty satisfaction—including the reasonableness of the tenure process, support available for faculty members with families, and compensation—Harvard only received an exemplary rating in one area: teaching. Stanford and Brown University both received exemplary status on eight of the criteria, followed by Duke with seven, and Dartmouth with six. Patricia P. Jones, vice provost for faculty development and diversity and a biology professor at Stanford, attributes some of the disparities in faculty satisfaction to differences in the relationship...
...Growing up in California, Chen always assumed he would go to Stanford...
Laffer is a bona fide economist with a doctorate from Stanford. He's also largely responsible for the Republican belief that tax cuts pay for themselves. Now 67, Laffer runs economic-consulting and money-management firms in Nashville. About the best I could get out of him on the question of whether the Bush tax cuts have paid for themselves was "I don't know." But that's only part of the story...
...recent years, Harvard has lost several prominent tenured professors because their spouses could not hold another position at Harvard or another nearby institution. Star economics professor Caroline M. Hoxby ’88 headed west for Stanford earlier this year when her husband, who had spent most of his career at Yale, received an offer from the California university...