Harvard University, which is clashing with the Trump administration over its academic independence and the withdrawal of billions of dollars in research funding, said on Wednesday that its president had chosen to cut his own pay by 25 percent starting later this year. The university has not disclosed specifics about its compensation package for the…
Harvard University expanded its lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday, hours after the government said it was ending about $450 million in research funding to the school. The battle between the administration and the nation’s oldest university has been intensifying since April 11, when the government sent Harvard a list of intrusive demands in…
Harvard University shares the same aims as the Trump administration, its president, Alan M. Garber, wrote in a respectful but firm letter on Monday — the latest exchange in an extraordinary back-and-forth between the school and the federal government in recent weeks. The letter was sent a week after the Trump administration said it would…
Dr. Alan Garber, president of Harvard, disagrees with President Trump about many things. He is fighting Mr. Trump as the federal government tries to strip Harvard of billions of dollars in research funding and its nonprofit tax status. But Dr. Garber agrees with Mr. Trump on one point. In one of the rare interviews he…
A Harvard task force released a scathing account of the university on Tuesday, finding that antisemitism had infiltrated coursework, social life, the hiring of some faculty members and the worldview of certain academic programs. A separate report on anti-Arab, anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian bias on campus, also released on Tuesday, found widespread discomfort and alienation among…
So far, Harvard has not requested an interim step, like a preliminary injunction. Although the university has not ruled out seeking some kind of short-term relief, its early approach is a signal that it believes the court may be able to act definitively and quickly on grounds that may not require much spectacle. To make…
To much of academia, many on the left and some on the right, Harvard is a hero for standing up to the White House and rejecting its demands to reshape academic and student life. After weeks of major law firms and other prestigious institutions like Columbia University acquiescing to President Trump’s demands, Harvard, in the…
Harvard sees $1.14 million in donations after Trump’s $2.2 billion funding cut Harvard University has witnessed an extraordinary surge in alumni donations following a fierce rebuke from University President Alan M. Garber against U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to cut federal funding. As reported by The Harvard Crimson, the institution received nearly $1.14 million in…
Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat antisemitism. The government had made some straightforward demands, like requiring the school to ban masks, which are often favored by protesters. But other demands seemed vague. Then, late on Friday night, the federal…
Harvard University is 140 years older than the United States, has an endowment greater than the G.D.P. of nearly 100 countries and has educated eight American presidents. So if an institution was going to stand up to the Trump administration’s war on academia, Harvard would be at the top of the list. Harvard did that…