Long-time Harvard Ombuds Retires

Lydia Cummings, who established the Ombudsman Office for the main campus at Harvard University in 2003, retired on January 31, 2020. Cummings worked at Harvard for four decades, including positions in Financial Administration and Labor and Employee Relations. For now, the campus will be served by what has been the medical campus Ombuds Office (which was created in 1991). (Harvard Ombudsman.)

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