From the Harvard Crimson: When Harvard College’s three diversity offices shut their doors in July, their 35 undergraduate interns lost their jobs — and for weeks after the office closures, nobody told them. Now, the Harvard Foundation — an umbrella center that replaced the three offices — is accepting only 12 undergraduate workers for this school year, according to job listings posted on the Student Employment Office website on Sept. 11. None of the former interns are guaranteed a spot.
The diversity offices’ staff were transferred to the Foundation, a new center within the Office of Culture and Community, over the summer. But undergraduate employees, who were given no advance warning about the closures, were never officially informed that they were out of a job, according to five former interns who spoke to The Crimson. Some did not learn the news until the Foundation job listings went up — two weeks into the school year...
Until this year, student interns did not have to reapply for their jobs between semesters, though some were asked to email office directors to confirm that they wanted to return.
Any interns who secure Foundation positions this semester may find themselves taking an effective pay cut. Continuing interns at the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, the Office of BGLTQ Student Life, and the Harvard College Women’s Center could expect a roughly 30- to 50-cent raise to their hourly wages with the new school year. But the Foundation will offer its student employees the same hourly wage paid to entry-level interns at the diversity offices...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/3/diversity-office-interns/.
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