Health Benefits
Med School Postdocs Criticize Health Benefits Changes
Nearly 70 Harvard Medical School postdoctoral fellows, professors, and administrators signed a letter expressing concern that the University’s new health benefits plan may disproportionately burden postdocs.
Amidst Title IX Debate, Law Faculty Raise Governance Concerns
As Harvard Law School moves to break from the University’s central approach to handling cases of alleged sexual harassment, Law professors are questioning the relationship between their school and Harvard’s central administration.
Committee Considers More Options for 2016 Health Benefits
Changes introduced to the 2015 health benefits plan, which were first unveiled last September and rolled out in January, have come under considerable fire from faculty, who criticized the increase in costs for non-union staff.
Coming Home
Harvard University Dining Services staff member Hector A. Santizo embraces his co-workers during his first visit back to campus since fracturing his leg while traveling to work in early February. Santizo, 64, has worked at Harvard in Adams House for 25 years. “I was so shocked when they told me,” said Teodora Lara, far right, smiling at Santizo. “Because, you know, we appreciate him a lot. We do.” Santizo’s co-workers tried to convince him to stay to eat dinner with them, but he had to leave as his wife, Myriam, who also works at Harvard, was on the way to pick him up.
Hector A. Santizo
Harvard University Dining Services staff member Hector A. Santizo fractured his ankle on Feb. 2. Santizo visited his co-workers in Adams House for the first time since the accident on Wednesday afternoon. After receiving hugs and questions about his recovery, Santizo remarked in Spanish, “I like Harvard because for me it’s a big family.”
In Op-Ed, Law Profs Call for University Governance Changes
Law School professors Charles Fried and Robert H. Mnookin sharply criticized the centralization of Harvard's administration in an op-ed in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Health Benefits Plan Will ‘Likely’ Change in Future, Committee Members Say
Members of the committee that recommended controversial changes to Harvard’s non-union health benefits plan said it will likely change in the future.
HUCTW Prepares for Upcoming Negotiations
The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers held its first of more than 60 planned strategy meetings in preparation for contract negotiations scheduled for late March.
University Benefits Committee Hosts Health Plan Info Session
The closed event, hosted at the Center for Workplace Development on Mount Auburn Street, featured a question-and-answer session with UBC affiliates.
Garber Discusses Transparency Between Faculty and Administration at Meeting
The meeting comes on the heels of faculty criticisms of changes to the health benefits policy for Harvard’s non-union employees and the University’s approach to announcing and devising the changes.
Families Unlikely To Reach Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Maximum, University Says
The committee that recommended a controversial new health benefits policy said it expects less than 1 percent of families enrolled in the medical program to reach the family out-of-pocket maximum of $4,500.
Two College Students Dismissed for Sexual Misconduct
The cases were the last reviewed under the school’s interim sexual harassment policies and procedures, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said at Tuesday's meeting of the Faculty.
Video: Top 10 Stories That Shaped 2014
2014 was a year of change and controversy as Harvard affiliates reacted to events on campus and across the nation. In this feature, Crimson Multimedia uses photo and video to recap the 10 biggest stories of 2014.
