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Harvard President Takes a Big Pay Cut as University Fights Trump

The move comes as the administration halts over $2.6 billion in federal funding to the university.

Harvard president Alan Garber will take a voluntary 25 percent pay cut from his salary, a university spokesperson said Wednesday. The mostly symbolic move comes as the Ivy League continues to clash with the Trump administration over federal funding cuts. In April, the school was mistakenly sent a letter by the administration which claimed that they had “fundamentally failed to protect American students and faculty from antisemitic violence,” and would need to agree to a list of concessions or lose billions of dollars in federal funding. The university responded by filing a lawsuit against the administration. “No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Garber wrote in an April statement. Although Garber’s salary has not been disclosed, according to The Harvard Crimson, previous Harvard presidents have earned a salary of up to $1 million. A Harvard spokesperson told CNN Wednesday that Garber’s pay cut will start on July 1 and last till June 30 of next year, the duration of the 2026 fiscal year.