Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 75

From the Harvard Crimson: Harvard will lay off roughly 25 percent of staff represented by its clerical and technical workers’ union at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and reorganize several offices in response to mounting funding pressures, according to the union. SEAS Dean David C. Parkes announced the layoffs, which also affected non-union staff, in an email sent to SEAS staff Thursday morning. He cited an increase in the federal tax on Harvard’s endowment income, an anticipated reduction in federal agencies’ reimbursement rates for indirect research costs, and “changes to the allocation of research funding” as financial pressures.

...The Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, in an email to its members sent Thursday morning, described the layoffs as the “largest cut at any Harvard school in decades and at least three times deeper than any other Harvard unit is undertaking in this challenging moment.” It remains unclear which other schools have reduced their staff numbers, and how many employees they have laid off. The Harvard Kennedy School announced that it was laying off staff over the summer, and the School of Public Health also reduced employee numbers last spring.

Parkes’ email cited an increase in the federal tax on Harvard’s endowment income, an anticipated reduction in federal agencies’ reimbursement rates for indirect research costs, and “changes to the allocation of research funding” as financial pressures...

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/10/seas-staff-25-percent-layoffs/.