From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard College cut course assistant pay in some departments by $2 and has begun reducing teaching assistant positions for undergraduates amid University-wide budget cuts. At least 60 CAs in the Math department, who had been paid $23 per hour for jobs with in-class work, were informed in August that their new wage for the fall would be $21 – part of a position reclassification initiative by the Office of Undergraduate Education. Several Physics department CAs also had their fall pay docked by $2.
Two departments — Math and Computer Science — that regularly hire dozens of undergraduate course assistants to staff classes, also cut back on their CA hiring for the fall. Computer Science 50 professor David J. Malan ’99 wrote in a statement that the changes were due in part to budget cuts, and Upper-Level Math CA Coordinator Oliver Knill wrote in an email to CAs that the department was “under lots of pressure to reduce the number of CAs as budget cuts are everywhere.” ...
The change allows Harvard to reduce spending on teaching assistants after it announced a University-wide hiring freeze and paused merit-based wage increases for all faculty and staff. Several Harvard schools have also laid off staff as Harvard battles with the Trump administration over federal funding...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/4/ca-pay-cut-hiring-reduction/.
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