From the Harvard Crimson: The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is planning to reduce spending on non-tenure-track faculty by 25 percent across all three of its academic divisions, according to people familiar with the decision, marking the latest cost-cutting measures as the school faces a $365 million budget deficit. The 25 percent cut will be applied uniformly to the Division of Science, the Division of Arts and Humanities, and the Division of Social Science. Three people familiar with the plans in the Science division, two in the Arts and Humanities, and one in Social Science confirmed that each division will face the same across-the-board reduction.
The cuts follow months of internal discussions and come on the heels of a sharp reduction in Ph.D. admissions last fall — another major effort to curb academic spending... The number of non-tenure-track faculty has increased by about 60 percent over the past two decades, though undergraduate enrollment has remained roughly the same...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/3/3/non-tenure-track-budget-cuts/.
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