http://www.thecrimson.com/news.aspx The Harvard Crimson :: The University Daily Since 1873 Copyright 2009, The Harvard Crimson, Inc. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has eliminated 77 staff positions and reduced work hours for another 15 employees as part of the recent University-wide downsizing, Dean Michael D. Smith announced Wednesday. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528540 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:37:57 GMT Brett C. Sweet, dean of administration and finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will leave Harvard this month to become Vanderbilt's Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced Thursday morning. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528539 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:32:47 GMT Harvard Business School announced last week that it would lay off 16 of its more than 1,000 employees as part of a broader downsizing that will reduce the School's overall staff by 130 people. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528537 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:07:51 GMT An unusual slew of drug-related violence in Cambridge during the last two months has prompted city leaders to expand the local police presence and increase public outreach in an effort to quell residents’ unease. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528534 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:49:50 GMT Harvard Law School laid off 12 staff members last week as part of its effort to reduce the size of its workforce by about 10 percent, acting Dean Howell E. Jackson announced in an e-mail to the Law School community last Tuesday. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528533 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:45:20 GMT Harvard is changing its subcontractor for campus security from AlliedBarton to Securitas on Aug. 1, but the workers employed, the level of security on campus, and the collective bargaining agreement between the workers and the union will not change. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528528 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:12:23 GMT University officials are continuing to cut Harvard's subcontracted janitorial staff despite a string of protests in Cambridge and at the Medical School campus this past spring, according to union organizers. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528527 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:10:41 GMT The Harvard Kennedy School has laid off 18 employees to help it close a $2 million budget gap that persisted after less drastic spending cuts, Dean David T. Ellwood '75 announced in a letter to the School's faculty and staff last Tuesday. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528526 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:06:38 GMT Harvard College Library has eliminated over 20 staff positions and cut hours for several other employees as part of the University-wide layoffs announced this past week, according to an e-mail sent to staff by HCL's head librarian Nancy M. Cline. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528524 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:46:10 GMT New York City resident Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, one of the three men alleged to have been involved in the drug-related shooting death of Justin Cosby in Kirkland House last month, was indicted late Thursday night by a grand jury on charges that include first degree murder and armed robbery. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528521 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:49:51 GMT