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...inadequacy of laws governing non-profits can lead to scandals such as the one that engulfed student loan giant Sallie Mae earlier this spring that resulted in the company agreeing to pay a $2 million settlement. “In the IRS, we have 180 agents, who are underpaid and under-trained, and are attempting to regulate almost 1 million charities—they just don’t understand the subtle distinctions between non-profits and for-profits doing social work...
...enact policies that support workers, and hope that once again the student body will be a large component of that force. Harvard students have a long history of recognizing the need for student-worker solidarity and of pressuring the Harvard administration to recognize what it means to be an underpaid worker at Harvard. Students have organized together to make the administration more accountable to the Harvard community, and to recognize that when any part of our community suffers, we all suffer...
...graduate students alike are so upset when top candidates are denied tenure. Harvard’s reluctance to tenure junior professors sends these top notch teachers away and deters young, enterprising academics from coming to Harvard. In addition to facing meager tenure prospects, Harvard junior faculty tend to be underpaid compared to nationwide averages, particularly in the social and physical sciences.While some of Harvard’s antipathy towards junior professors stems from systemic flaws, most of Harvard’s problems arise from a misguided institutional attitude towards junior faculty. Other schools also use committees of outside experts...
...above what Wal-Mart is paying in its Secaucus, N.J., store. Maybe the cops can get a second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where sweatshops thrive in Chinatown, immigrant Mexican help has been grossly underpaid by immigrant Korean deli owners, and immigrant African deliverymen had been getting $1.25 per hour at unionized Manhattan supermarkets (relying on tips) until authorities finally stepped in. "Wal-Mart's values are not New York's values," proclaimed Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW...
...devoted teachers have long been underappreciated, underpaid, and only rarely tenured. That the most recent Task Force’s report highlights ways in which a middle ground between excellence in research and commitment to instruction might be achieved is to be applauded...