Non-Tenure Track Faculty Deliver Petition on Time Caps to Harvard President Garber

Non-tenure-track faculty delivered a petition with almost 1,400 signatures calling for an end to time caps to top Harvard officials on Thursday as the group’s new union bargains for its first contract with the University.

The petition, signed by more than 350 tenure- and non-tenure-track faculty, alleged Harvard’s time-cap policy — which limits the time that lecturers and preceptors can be employed at Harvard to two, three, or eight years — is “out of step with peer institutions” and hurts the University’s educational offerings.

Read the full article on the Crimson here.