Harvard president takes pay cut amid Trump funding fight

Trump medication cuts further $450M successful backing from Harvard

Trump medication cuts further $450M successful backing from Harvard 00:20

One time aft the Trump medication announced that it is cutting different $450 cardinal successful grants to Harvard University, the Ivy League schoolhouse says its president volition beryllium taking a wage cut.

A Harvard spokesperson confirmed that President Alan Garber is taking a voluntary 25% wage chopped betwixt July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026.  The Harvard Crimson, which was the archetypal to report the news, said Harvard presidents typically gain implicit $1 cardinal annually.

Earlier this month, dozens of tenured Harvard professors said they would donate 10% of their salaries "as our publication to the university's fiscal resources portion it legally contests these attacks."

Harvard, Trump clash implicit national funding

Harvard filed a lawsuit successful April aft the Trump medication froze $2.2 billion successful national funding. President Trump has besides said his medication volition revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status, a determination that would permission Harvard probe "severely impaired," Garber told The Wall Street Journal. 

The uncertainty implicit national backing caused Harvard to freeze hiring backmost successful March. The assemblage said losing retired connected national dollars could result successful cuts to staffing and life-saving probe astatine Harvard Medical School. But the schoolhouse has rejected the administration's projected conditions for resuming funding, which see changes to enactment and halting diversity, equity and inclusion policies. 

A letter to Harvard from the national government's Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism connected Tuesday said the schoolhouse has "repeatedly failed to face the pervasive contention favoritism and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus."

"Harvard's campus, erstwhile a awesome of world prestige, has go a breeding crushed for virtuousness signaling and discrimination," the missive said. "There is simply a acheronian occupation connected Harvard's campus, and by prioritizing appeasement implicit accountability, organization leaders person forfeited the school's assertion to payer support."      

Garber apologized aft the schoolhouse released a report connected antisemitism and Islamophobia connected campus. But Harvard says it has since made changes and is compliant with national law.

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