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I received today (May 3) a copy of the final report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies — a committee composed of faculty and senior administrators from across the University, which I appointed last spring to study issues relating to the contingent workforce on campus. I intend to study the report thoroughly and…

Annual Cost: $2.44 million Workers affected: About 2,000 Harvard Bridge Program: What: On-site, free literacy and basic skills training Who: Unionized staff, casuals or employees of outside service contractors How Many: 1,100 eligible, 500 annually Cost: $1.4 million Health Benefits: What: Extend same health benefits as full-time employees Who: Harvard service employees who work 16…

D. Quinn Mills, the Albert J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, chaired the eight-member Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies that for the last year has been examining issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers. The Gazette recently discussed the Committee’s recommendations and the process that led…

After more than a year of studying issues surrounding Harvard’s contingent workforce and its lowest-paid workers, the Ad Hoc Committee on Employment Policies released a report yesterday (May 3) recommending a groundbreaking program of greatly expanded worker education, an expansion of health benefits for service workers, and the adoption of University-wide guidelines on service contractor…

In an innovative move to bridge the gap between workers in low-paying jobs and those enjoying the nation’s booming new economy, Harvard University will launch a new workplace education program providing basic literacy and language skills and/or courses leading to a high school equivalency degree. The new “Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy,” which will…

Harvard offers a generous package of benefits and perks – including liberal time off, tuition assistance, a wide range of health plans and special perks like discount theater and movie tickets. Generous Paid Time Off • 1-4 weeks of vacation to start • Sick leave • 11 1/2 paid holidays • 3 personal days per…

A memorial service will be held for Roscoe Pound Professor of Law James Vorenberg, a former Harvard Law School dean, on Wednesday, May 10, at 2 p.m. in Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Vorenberg died on April 12.

Ruth Dixon Turner, professor of biology emerita, died Sunday in Meadow Green Nursing Home in Waltham at the age of 85. Turner was curator of malacology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. She was a world-renowned expert on teredos, sharp-shelled mollusks that bore through wood and are popularly known as “shipworms.” For this reason she…

Mayor Thomas Menino joined hundreds of local youths, student athletes, and coaches last Friday (April 28) to kick off the annual Sports Festival held at Harvard. Designed to celebrate the culmination of this year’s Youth and Student-Athlete Collaborative program, the festival drew 1,200 local youngsters to learn from varsity student-athletes and coaches from Harvard, Boston…

A memorial service for Harvard Law School professor Gary Bellow will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 2 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The service will be followed with a reception in the Ropes-Gray Room in Pound Hall, 1563 Massachusetts Ave. Bellow died on April 13.

When the Heinz Endowments of Pittsburgh, Pa., embarked on a mission two years ago to invigorate its Arts and Culture program, it turned to the Mind of the Market Laboratory (MML) at the Harvard Business School (HBS). What emerged from the lab was a multifaceted advertising campaign built around a series of energetic and colorful…

Eat, drink, and be merry — thousands showed off their spring fever during Springfest 2000 at the MAC Quad, coming out to support student bands, eat, compete, and enjoy the weather.

Following are some of the incidents reported to the Harvard University Police Department for the week ending April 29. The official log is located at Police Headquarters, 29 Garden St. April 23: An act of vandalism was discovered in the Agassiz Theatre. April 24: Several parts were stolen from a bicycle in the Medical School…

Aaron Copland. Leonard Bernstein. Igor Stravinsky. John Knowles Paine. These four eminences were among 25 composers, musicians, and educators inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1998. The names of most of the inductees for that year are familiar ones, but how many people could guess which category – composer, musician, or…

Organizers sought for next Ig Nobel event Organizers are sought to help produce the 10th Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which honors individuals whose achievements “cannot or should not be reproduced.” Likely the world’s largest science-humor celebration, the event will be held at Sanders Theatre in early October and will be broadcast live over the…

If a war had broken out somewhere last weekend, there’s a possibility the rest of the world might have missed it. That’s because more than 400 of the most heralded journalists from around the world set aside their notepads and laptops to gather at Harvard for the Nieman Fellows Reunion 2000. “It was pretty exciting,”…

Galbraith, Gould, and Whipple dubbed “Living Legends” John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; Stephen Jay Gould, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and Fred Whipple, Philips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus, were among 83 Americans named as “Living Legends” by the Library of Congress at a celebration…

The National Board of Directors of the NAACP attended its third board retreat at the Business School last week. President Neil L. Rudenstine (left) met with NAACP Chairman Julian Bond during a reception for the NAACP board at the Law School. Also in attendance was NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. Staff photo by Justin Ide

In a recent remarkably productive period of labor relations activity, the University signed 5 new contracts with four of its unions between July and November of last year. Following is a list of Unions representing Harvard employees. Asterisks indicate those that have signed new contracts with the University since last July. * GCIU — Graphic…

A committee of faculty and administrators studying workforce issues at Harvard has recommended several groundbreaking initiatives. Central to these recommendations is a greatly expanded free, on-site workplace education program for the university’s lowest-paid employees, including those working for contractors. In addition the committee recommended a mix of health and other benefits and, for the first…

It was a radical idea at the time. The concept of Law School (HLS) students representing indigent clients in criminal cases may have shocked more than a few people in the Boston legal community in 1949, but more than a half century later, the Harvard Defenders carries on in its benevolent mission in district courts…

A memorial service, “A Celebration of the Life of Navin Narayan,” will be held on Friday, May 5, in the Adams House Library at 2:30 p.m. Navin Narayan ’99 died March 13 at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, after a long struggle with cancer. He was 23. “He was one of the most remarkably…

The painfully sensitive skin that accompanies many migraines has revealed a new understanding of the debilitating headaches. The latest findings from Boston researchers are the first that may explain why current medications are ineffective in many cases and suggest a new target for the next generation of migraine drugs. Researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical…

His life’s work is a montage of musical masterpieces, including three symphonies, three string quartets, two operas, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning cantata “The Flight into Egypt.” Yet, it’s not so much the creation of the music as the drive to preserve its audience into the future that drives composer John Harbison ’60, this year’s Harvard…

Arthur Mu-En Lee, associate professor of molecular biology at the Harvard School of Public Health and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, died on April 10 following surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. A native of Taiwan, Lee earned his M.D. from Kaohsiung Medical College and a Ph.D. from the…

The women’s basketball team held its annual post-season banquet on Tuesday evening, April 25. In addition to team awards for 1999-00, head coach Kathy Delaney Smith announced that juniors Kristen Boike and Melissa Johnson have been elected captains of the 2000-01 squad. Team MVP honors were won by senior captain Laela Sturdy. Sturdy enjoyed her…