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Student Groups

Jewish Harvard Students Sign Open Letter Opposing Trump’s Funding Threats

More than 100 Jewish students signed an open letter condemning the Trump administration’s threat earlier this month to review approximately $9 billion in federal funding to Harvard.

Larry Summers in 2014
Central Administration

Summers Says Harvard Gave Trump an Opportunity To Threaten University Over Antisemitism Response

Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers slammed Harvard’s leaders on Wednesday for acting too slowly against campus protesters and academic centers he accused of spreading antisemitism — which, he said, gave the Trump administration a window to threaten the University.

Cambridge City Hall
Central Administration

Cambridge City Council To Vote on Whether To Ask Harvard Corporation To Resist Trump

Four Cambridge City Councilors called on Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 to resist the Trump administration’s list of demands threatening nearly $9 billion in federal funding in a policy order set to be voted on during the Council’s Monday evening meeting.

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Cambridge City Council

Cambridge City Council Calls on Harvard, President Garber to Resist Trump’s Threats

The Cambridge City Council voted unanimously on Monday to call on the Harvard Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — to refuse the Trump administration’s demands as $9 billion in government funding hangs in the balance.

Loeb House
Central Administration

As Trump Waits for Harvard’s Reply, Governing Boards Meet in Harvard Square

The Harvard Corporation and the Harvard Board of Overseers — the University’s governing bodies— convened on campus over the weekend to prepare a response to the Trump administration’s $9 billion ultimatum.

Alan Garber Speaks at Memorial Church Morning Prayers
Central Administration

Harvard President Alan Garber Abruptly Cancels Spring Break Trip to India

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 abruptly cancelled a planned spring break trip to India, as American universities nervously eyed Columbia’s response to a $400 million ultimatum from the Trump administration.

PSC Protest Mass. Hall
College

Harvard Faces Calls To Disband PSC for Violating New Antisemitism Policies

More than 200 Harvard affiliates and alumni signed an open letter to University President Alan M. Garber ’76 on Wednesday urging Harvard to permanently dissolve the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee.

Massachusetts Hall
Harvard Business School

Harvard Officials Met With Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, Used Info From Online Monitoring System

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said the University has benefited from Foundation To Combat Antisemitism’s tools to track antisemitism on social media at the annual Harvard Business School Shabbat Dinner with New England Patriots Owner Robert K. Kraft.

Massachusetts Hall
Central Administration

Months After Fall Deadline, Harvard Task Forces on Antisemitism, Islamophobia Have Yet To Issue Final Reports

More than one year after their founding, Harvard’s task forces on combating antisemitism and Islamophobia have yet to issue their final recommendations — missing their fall 2024 deadline by months.

Alan Garber and Larry Summers
Central Administration

Summers Accuses Harvard Corporation, Garber of Inaction Against Antisemitism

Summers’ thread was an extraordinary broadside against Harvard — not just a rebuke of the University’s sitting leadership by a former president, but also a wide-ranging attack against individual instructors, academic programming, and professional schools that Summers termed “redoubts of the far left.”

University Hall
FAS

Hoekstra Tells FAS To ‘Prepare for Significant Financial Challenges’ Amid Uncertainty From Washington

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra told faculty on Tuesday that she has instructed FAS officials “to prepare for significant financial challenges” and “build financial capacity” as President Donald Trump ramps up threats to Harvard’s funding.

Smith Center Front
College

Harvard President Garber Says Diversity Is a Condition of Academic Excellence at Annual EDIB Forum

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 argued diversity is a “critical enabler of learning” in opening remarks at the University’s annual Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Forum on Tuesday, avoiding reference to sustained threats to DEI programming from the Trump administration.

Weeks Bridge
College

Garber Names Recipients of Inaugural Building Bridges Fund

President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced the four student-led projects receiving support from the inaugural President’s Building Bridges Fund in an email to Harvard affiliates Wednesday afternoon.

University Hall
Central Administration

Harvard’s President Used To Chair Faculty Meetings. Is It Time for Garber To Return?

As faculty push for greater input in Harvard’s governance, some professors say the president’s absence has left the current officeholder, Alan M. Garber ’76, with limits on his knowledge of faculty concerns — and fewer opportunities to receive guidance from professors as the University faces mounting pressure from Washington.

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University Finances

With Republicans in Control, Alan Garber Faces a Fight For Harvard’s Funding

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has spent the last year investing in relationships with politicians in Washington, avoiding direct confrontation with the threats he has long acknowledged. Now faced with a barrage of funding cuts, Garber may have been pushed into the fight.

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