CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Alan Garber is taking a voluntary pay cut as the school faces more than $2 billion dollars in federal funding cuts.
School officials say the pay cut is 25%, although President Garber’s compensation package isn’t public.
The Harvard Crimson has previously reported that past presidents have earned upwards of a million dollars.
Wednesday’s announcement comes just a day after the Trump administration cut another $450 million grants to the Ivy League school.
Harvard has pushed back against government allegations that it supports antisemitism on campus.
In a letter to Harvard on Tuesday, a federal antisemitism task force said the school has become a “breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination” and faces a “steep, uphill battle” to reclaim its legacy as a place of academic excellence.
Harvard has faced escalating sanctions from the White House after becoming the first U.S. university to openly defy the government’s demands to limit pro-Palestinian activism and end diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Portions of Associated Press reporting were used for this article.
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