Living in Boston, it’s interesting to see Harvard’s current struggle. They have massive plots of land where they have stopped construction after they kicked the businesses out of the shopping centers they owned. It’s fairly obvious they’re in deep doodoo from this recession.
What’s more interesting is the faculty situation though. Both the article and the first comment focus on something that I am constantly noticing. There’s a hell of a lot of Harvard faculty. I know a ridiculous number of them. And almost all of those I know don’t have any funding. And they’re desperately trying to get money. And it’s not working. So they’re leaving for greener pastures, schools that can give them bridge funding until they get grants. Harvard may have the name, but without the new buildings and their inability to bridge fund, it’s a horrible place to be a professor right now.
