From the Harvard Crimson: Mady Corrigan, a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, used to spend most of her time on research. Now, she spends a significant part of it fixing equipment. Since SEAS Dean David C. Parkes announced plans last October to lay off roughly 25 percent of the school’s clerical and technical union workers — along with other staff, totaling about 40 positions — Corrigan’s lab has lost both its research technician and its lab manager...
The layoffs followed a convergence of financial pressures on Harvard: a sharp increase in the federal tax on the University’s endowment, upended federal research funding, and what Parkes described in an October email as a budgetary gap the school could not close through other cost-cutting measures alone. In the months since the cuts took effect, the consequences have rippled beyond the school’s budget. In interviews, around a dozen students and staff members described a school grappling with diminished support and growing gaps in the day-to-day operations that keep labs running, courses staffed, and students advised...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/16/impact-of-seas-layoffs/.
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