~40 people to be laid off from Harvard School of Engineering in Allston

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As reported in multiple outlets. 

Is this professional school now facing "Enormous financial pressure"? Debatable.

As quoted in this article, SEAS Dean David Parkes makes a pretty weak case. 

"New federal policies, including a forthcoming increase to the endowment tax, and an expected reduction in indirect recovery rates and changes to the allocation of research funding, have signaled the start of a fundamental shift in the relationship between research universities and the federal government.

“Even with the recent reinstatement of existing grants to Harvard, this shift is placing enormous financial pressure on every school across the University and our peer institutions around the country.”

The externalities are "forthcoming"; "expected"; "signaled."  

Here's what the leadership at Yale wrote to their community on September 30 as an update on a plan to manage financial challenges. Among other strategies, Yale leaders will engage in a three-year budget planning process; decrease by 1% the pool for faculty and managerial and professional (M&P) staff salary increases; offer a retirement incentive program for managerial staff.

Yale is not laying off unionized staff. Why is Harvard different?