Harvard workers stunned by layoffs - Tracy Jan, Boston Globe

Harvard’s most senior administrators had for months foreshadowed the possibility of staff reductions, warning at a series of meetings and forums that they probably would have no choice as the university deals with the precipitous decline in its endowment. But when the layoff number - 275 Harvard employees - was delivered yesterday in a memo from the university’s president, it came as a shock in most quarters of the campus.