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...million in cost-cutting measures announced on Monday represents only a third of the total $220 million annual deficit that FAS administrators hope to close by July 2011. FAS will embark on its next stage of reductions??dubbed “reshaping” by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith—in the coming months to make up the remaining $143 million...
...Harvard University Police Department said yesterday that it is not planning to close its Allston substation as a result of University-wide budget reductions??even though a HUPD sergeant seemed to suggest at an Allston construction management meeting Wednesday night that Harvard was considering such a move. While HUPD is holding preliminary discussions to examine a number of potential cost-saving measures, “the safety and security of the people on our campus is HUPD’s primary concern” and will not be affected by budgetary changes, said University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall...
...Second, Harvard should ask its faculty to take temporary pay reductions??perhaps through furlough days—to bring their salaries in line with those of our peer institutions. This academic year, Harvard paid its full professors an average of $192,600, according to the American Association of University Professors. By contrast, Stanford paid its professors $181,900, Princeton paid $180,300, and Yale paid $174,700. Asking our professors to accept the same salaries as their counterparts at Stanford seems fair, especially considering that, just two years ago, the average salary at Harvard...
While Harvard will rely "to the maximum extent practicable" on reducing its own emissions to meet the targets, it will also "need to acquire or create high-quality carbon offsets in order to meet the recommended goals." Carbon offsets are the practice by institutions or governments finance emissions reductions??such as by planting trees or paying for energy efficiency programs—in other parts of the world...
...emissions on next month’s UC presidential ballot. The proposal would call upon Harvard to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 11 percent from its 1990 levels by 2020. The ballot question will also ask students to pledge “to do [their] part to realize these reductions?? while at Harvard. The legislation, sponsored by Lowell House Rep. Ali A. Zaidi ’08, Eliot House Rep. Tom Hadfield ’08, and the Harvard Environmental Action Committee, passed unanimously. The referendum will take place during presidential elections, which will be held...
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