Employees were notified about their termination on Thursday — effective the same day. The post Harvard outsources Slavery Remembrance Program, lays off staff appeared first on Boston.com.

Staff told Harvard's student newspaper that they were not given any advance notice of the decision to lay off staff and outsource research to a nonprofit.

A program at Harvard University meant to identify the descendants of people previously enslaved by university affiliates has been outsources, while its staff was terminated, a report said.