Tag: Staff
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Campus & Community
Using privilege helpfully
Acknowledging one’s privilege — and using that advantage to help level the playing field for everyone — is essential in the fight against racism and sexism, activist Peggy McIntosh told a crowd of Harvard faculty and staff in the second of this year’s FAS diversity dialogues.

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Campus & Community
Help with kids. And pets. And …
The WATCH Portal, an online network launched last year to connect Harvard parents with University-affiliated baby sitters, is expanding its marketplace to include tutoring, pet care, and a host of other services for busy employees in a pinch.

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Campus & Community
‘Having it all’ at Harvard
After an Atlantic magazine cover story launched a national debate on how women balance career and family, a group of Harvard women is continuing the conversation, and is looking for new ideas on how to make the work-life juggling act a little less stressful.

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Campus & Community
Imagine if everyone gave
The Harvard Community Gifts campaign launched on Nov. 7. Faculty and staff can choose to donate by payroll deduction by Dec. 7, or may elect to give by check or credit card through Jan. 15. Harvard has established a user-friendly website where individuals can select their charity and donation amount.

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Campus & Community
A really cool treat
Harvard employees enjoyed ice cream and the Olympics on Friday during a gathering sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice President.

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Campus & Community
Extraordinary performers
A juggling janitor, an inspirational minister, all-star fundraisers, and a dining hall checker were among 49 University employees feted at Sanders Theatre June 5 as Harvard Heroes, a longstanding tradition at the University that returned this spring after a three-year hiatus.

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Campus & Community
Alumni’s lives are in her hands
As an editor of Harvard’s hallowed Red Books and obituary writer for Harvard Magazine, Deborah Smullyan finds the beauty and wisdom in a parade of graduates’ retrospectives.

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Campus & Community
A heroic return
After a three-year hiatus, the Harvard Heroes Recognition Program — which celebrates Harvard staff members who make extraordinary contributions “above and beyond” — will return in a ceremony June 5.
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Campus & Community
At long last, literary success
Peter Brown gave up the vagabond life of a poet for a family and a stable IT career in the Harvard Economics Department. Twenty years later, his dark fiction found unexpected success.

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Campus & Community
If he builds it, the artists come
Ed Lloyd inherited a famous gallery designed by the architect Le Corbusier. As the Carpenter Center’s exhibitions manager, he regularly transforms that space to bring current works of art to life.

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Campus & Community
FAS recognizes outstanding staff members
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith honored the 44 recipients of the third annual Dean’s Distinction awards in a ceremony and reception March 1 in the Faculty Room of University Hall.

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Campus & Community
Neighbors for the 21st century
Once a club for faculty wives, the century-old Harvard Neighbors has evolved into one of the most diverse community organizations on campus, and an informal welcoming committee for international staff and scholars and their families.

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Campus & Community
Helping scholars find library nooks
Ask any graduate student: Sometimes the right work ethic depends on snaring the perfect study space. Ann-Marie Costa, along with a team of Widener Library and Berkman Center staff, developed an online solution that simplified the process of booking carrels.

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Campus & Community
The right way to report wrongdoing
The University’s comprehensive new policy on whistleblowing aims to make reporting legal or ethical breaches both safe and easy for all members of the Harvard community.

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Campus & Community
A quarter-century, and still going strong
Annual ceremony honors 142 longtime employees, the keepers of Harvard’s institutional identity. But they’re more than just the guardians of a legacy — sometimes they’re guardian angels, too.

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Campus & Community
Taking the pulse of Harvard
Harvard is launching a University-wide staff survey for the first time since 2008. The brief questionnaire will gauge employees’ opinions on Harvard as a workplace.

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Campus & Community
All in the Harvard family
The WATCH Portal, a new online child-care service, aims to connect Harvard parents with a vast pool of potential babysitters, from undergraduates and graduate students to the teenage children of employees.

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Campus & Community
Health care changes ahead
Open enrollment begins Oct. 27 at Harvard. Until Nov. 9, faculty, staff, and retirees can make changes to their benefits, elect a new vision care plan, and review 2012 rates and features for Harvard’s health plans.

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Campus & Community
The grad students’ guru
Over three decades, Cynthia Verba has advised hundreds of advanced students at Harvard. A scholar of French Enlightenment music in her own right, her guidance comes with more than a grain of salt.

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Campus & Community
A smarter Harvard marketplace
An online procurement system rolls out across Harvard, saving the University $5.4 million in its first year and making life a little easier for thousands of researchers and administrators.

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Campus & Community
Come on, Eileen
Workers at Harvard’s Biological Laboratories organize a team to raise funds for cancer research, and to support ill colleague Eileen Snow.

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Campus & Community
Long a Harvardian, now an American
For Marina Betancur and 15 other Harvard employees, a celebration dinner with President Drew Faust was a victory lap on a long, arduous, and rewarding path to citizenship.

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Campus & Community
38 honored with Dean’s Distinction
Some of Harvard’s most impressive “unsung heroes” took the spotlight on Wednesday (March 2), when 38 Faculty of Arts and Sciences staff members were honored with Dean’s Distinction awards.







