Harvard University announced Monday that it decided to freeze its hiring in the face of uncertainty created by the change of policies with the administration of Donald Trump.
The president of the prestigious University Center, Alan M. Garber, told his staff that the decision is designed to help that university maintain their “financial flexibility until better understand how changes in federal policies will materialize”.
“It is imperative to limit new significant long -term commitments that would increase our financial exposure and make future adjustments more disruptive,” he wrote in an email echoing the Harvard Student newspaper The Harvard Crimson.
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According to this message, the freezing in the hiring will have immediate effect on all faculties but it is planned to be temporary.
Harvard president also asked to examine discretionary and non -salary spending and reassess both the scope of capital renewal projects and any new multiannual commitment.
Harvard adds to the step taken in February by Stanford University and Cornell before the potential cuts contemplated by the new government.
On Friday the Republican Administration canceled subsidies and contracts with the University of Columbia in New York worth 400 million dollars “due to their passivity to the persistent harassment of Jewish students”, after receiving a report that had commissioned the anti -Semitism on campus.
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That same week Trump had threatened to cut federal financing to any school or center of higher education in the country that allows “illegal” protests and warned that it will imprison or deport students to participate in them.
With EFE information
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