Harvard University, one of the nation’s wealthiest schools, on Monday joined the list of universities across the country imposing hiring freezes, citing the uncertainty created by President Trump’s threats to slash funding for higher education.
… [T]he step by Harvard, which has an endowment of more than $50 billion, illustrates the gravity of the situation facing higher education…
The email emphasized that the hiring pause was temporary, but also asked the leadership of Harvard units to “scrutinize discretionary and nonsalary spending.”
Paywall, tried to summarize the article the best I can. Try this link if you prefer to read the full article & don’t have access to NYT
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It’s a major goal of conservatives and Republicans to destroy free and open thinking. Education and educational institutions are enemies of fascism, so therefore fascists will work to destroy schools.
will work to destroy schools.
They want to destroy education, not schools per se.
I would bet they want to keep schools that will indoctrinate kids since they have a fixation on saying the left wants to indoctrinate kids and projection is their thing.
Harvard will be fine; hundreds of other schools and tens of thousands of staff not so much.
It will be interesting to see if this helps or hinders the student movements
In the 2000’s I interviewed for my dream job at Harvard. The manager and I got along famously, we both thought I was a great fit for the job and they gave me an offer at the interview: It was for literally $30,000 less than I was currently making and since this was the 2000s, I wasn’t making too much to begin with. I literally laughed and walked away. Never again.
