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...University’s most recent effort to contain costs harkens back to the 1991 economic recession, when Harvard created a similar early retirement program for all non-faculty employees...
...During a less severe economic recession in 1991, the University created a similar early retirement incentive program for all non-faculty employees over the age of 55 with at least 10 years of service...
...lots of great new ideas that have been awaiting funding.” In 2007, Harvard received nearly $1.4 billion in funding from the NIH, and over half of the University’s external research funding came from the NIH. The House of Representatives, which approved a similar stimulus bill two weeks ago but only allocated $3.5 billion for biomedical research, will now work with the Senate to forge a compromise bill for President Obama’s approval. The Senate bill was approved along party lines, with all 37 opposition votes coming from Republicans. Economics and public policy...
Harvard’s move to reduce the number of graduate school fellowships mirrors similar measures taken by Northwestern and Stanford’s graduate schools to help alleviate the financial burden...
...skeptical students—these courses would bear more resemblance to your favorite extracurricular than to your Lit and Arts A Core. The quirky subject matter would bring students of similar interests together and create some fast friendships. The (lack of) age difference would erase much of the resentful divide between teacher and student, leading to discussion seminars that are truly group-driven, not individual-driven, as too many fall and spring sections are. Finally, students would be no less likely to write a final paper for a peer than for a professor. We do far more work...