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Stymied By Secrecy

For thirteen months the University remained silent on the issue of a living wage, spurring the Progressive Student Labor Movement to action. Now administrators have announced their plans to aid workers. But students say it's not enough.

"You think you reach the top and then look out and realize you have a whole other hill to climb," he says.

The committee worked frantically to meet this last deadline, exchanging drafts and making changes only days before the May 3 release date.

A Unique Effort

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Committee members say their extensive analysis of Harvard's contingent workforce represented a nearly unprecedented effort for a university.

"It's unusual for corporations or universities to put this much effort into this kind of question," says Committee Chair D. Quinn Mills, Weatherhead professor of business administration.

Rudenstine calls the report "path-breaking."

"I think they were really strong and enlightened," he says. "It adds up to quite a powerful package."

Stanford University, Yale University and MIT spokespersons say their schools have not conducted similar studies and are not aware of any plans to do so in the future.

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