Secret Document Reportedly Exposes Mass Layoffs at Harvard as Restructuring Slams Dozens of College Staff

Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has directly laid off staff in a shocker for them. (Credit: EllenSeptember/Wikimedia Commons)

Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences has directly laid off 36 Harvard College staff and offered at least 28 more employees a choice between redundancy or a changed role, according to an internal document assessed by The Harvard Crimson detailing restructuring in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or FAS, pushed ahead with a sweeping staff reorganisation that has unfolded in stages since May.