Word: worke
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...committee will certainly fail if it does not remember to consult extensively with students and junior faculty within Afro-American studies. Given the heritage of mutual suspicion between the department and the administration, such cooperation is essential. If the committee, students and faculty honestly try to work together, perhaps Afro-American Studies can gain the status and the strength that it deserves...
Harvard has nine salary grades for non-exempt employees (workers who must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week under the Fair Labor Standards Act). Cantor says the largest sectors are grades three to five, where the wages range from a minimum of $667 monthly in grade three to a maximum of $1070 in grade five for a 35-hour work week. A beginning secretarial job may be grade three, and a beginning research assistant's job is grade five. Merit--the quality of employees' work and their assumption of additional duties--determines promotion to higher...
...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...
Another way to improve morale is to liberalize promotions. Cantor says it is relatively easy for employees to move within non-exempt salary grades--one-third of Harvard's open positions are filled from within--but that the jump from secretarial or clerical work to administrative or professional jobs is a problem. "The trouble is that moving up in that area the number of positions becomes devilishly limited," Cantor says. A typical Harvard department might have ten office workers and one administrator, but an industry would have larger departments, with a foreman, three assistant foremen, six supervisors and many assistant...