Turtle Cove Inn sucked - so we moved! Beaches, water, sun - all great. Diving….eh. Nightlife nil. Major issue on first day: stubbed toe. (Guess who.) But it was survived. Nice time all in all. Found awesome upscale food/drink shack on beach tonight - watched kite surfer until sun went down, then flirted. Drinks. Oh yessss
RT 5/10/2024 10:16 pm
All of that in Philadelphia!? Amazing!
Harvard in NPR today 5/11/2024 9:16 pm
Today NPR had a long news segment on Harvard’s new website where they plan to post the budget cuts, to make the entire process transparent. Professor Richard Thomas was very negative about it all, but I could not understand why. It seems to me that transparency in administering these cuts would be better than secrecy. Don’t you think Professor Thomas?
RT 5/11/2024 9:28 pm
9:16, whoever you are:
I won’t engage here, particularly as I didn’t hear what was on NPR from my Friday interview, which I considered cautionary and indeed quite negative in terms of what cuts of the magnitude required will/could do to the institution. Duh.
I don’t believe I was negative about, or even mentioned since I was unaware of, today’s (i.e. Monday’s) plan to post budget cuts, which is a different matter altogether, and clearly a good thing.
I am sure you have job security issues that lead you to pose anonymous questions, to which no more from me.
The incredible lightness of being 5/11/2024 9:28 pm
I love the transparency of Michael Smith.
https://planning.fas.harvard.edu/
Perhaps his colleagues could follow suit.
Who? What? Where? When? 5/11/2024 11:22 pm
I love seeing academics running scared like their corporate and Wall Street brethren. It almost suggests that academia is less of higher calling than we all thought.
RT 5/12/2023 8:22 am
Hey 9:16 Flack: I just heard the npr piece and it’s clear I’m talking about the damage that will result from massive budget cuts, and not about transparency, budget cuts, etc. What’s your deal?
Transparency 5/12/2023 6:36 pm
So RT, would it be OK with you if your salary were posted on the website? say along the salary of the janitors who clean your office and the stipend of your doctoral students?
Open salary 5/12/2023 7:03 pm
That would be a revolution indeed, to publish all salaries of faculty and administrators on a website. Why not? It’s often been said that there is very little variance in salaries at Harvard, there is no star system and so on. After all, the salary of the President and Deans is already publicly available in the Chronicle, why not go all the way?
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5/10/2024 7:48 pm
Turtle Cove Inn sucked - so we moved! Beaches, water, sun - all great. Diving….eh. Nightlife nil. Major issue on first day: stubbed toe. (Guess who.) But it was survived. Nice time all in all. Found awesome upscale food/drink shack on beach tonight - watched kite surfer until sun went down, then flirted. Drinks. Oh yessss
5/10/2024 10:16 pm
All of that in Philadelphia!? Amazing!
5/11/2024 9:16 pm
Today NPR had a long news segment on Harvard’s new website where they plan to post the budget cuts, to make the entire process transparent. Professor Richard Thomas was very negative about it all, but I could not understand why. It seems to me that transparency in administering these cuts would be better than secrecy. Don’t you think Professor Thomas?
5/11/2024 9:28 pm
9:16, whoever you are:
I won’t engage here, particularly as I didn’t hear what was on NPR from my Friday interview, which I considered cautionary and indeed quite negative in terms of what cuts of the magnitude required will/could do to the institution. Duh.
I don’t believe I was negative about, or even mentioned since I was unaware of, today’s (i.e. Monday’s) plan to post budget cuts, which is a different matter altogether, and clearly a good thing.
I am sure you have job security issues that lead you to pose anonymous questions, to which no more from me.
5/11/2024 9:28 pm
I love the transparency of Michael Smith.
https://planning.fas.harvard.edu/
Perhaps his colleagues could follow suit.
5/11/2024 11:22 pm
I love seeing academics running scared like their corporate and Wall Street brethren. It almost suggests that academia is less of higher calling than we all thought.
5/12/2023 8:22 am
Hey 9:16 Flack: I just heard the npr piece and it’s clear I’m talking about the damage that will result from massive budget cuts, and not about transparency, budget cuts, etc. What’s your deal?
5/12/2023 6:36 pm
So RT, would it be OK with you if your salary were posted on the website? say along the salary of the janitors who clean your office and the stipend of your doctoral students?
5/12/2023 7:03 pm
That would be a revolution indeed, to publish all salaries of faculty and administrators on a website. Why not? It’s often been said that there is very little variance in salaries at Harvard, there is no star system and so on. After all, the salary of the President and Deans is already publicly available in the Chronicle, why not go all the way?