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Embattled Harvard University President Alan Garber will reportedly take a voluntary pay cut as President Trump’s battle with the Ivy League school over antisemitism on campus heats up, according to a report.
His pay will be slashed by 25% for the academic year starting in July, a school spokesperson told Bloomberg.
The school did not disclose his salary, though recent predecessors earned about $1 million a year at the nation’s oldest university.
Garber, who was named president last year, previously took a voluntary 25% cut during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 when he served as provost and chief academic officer.
Harvard did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
The Trump administration has taken a jackhammer to Harvard’s federal funding, canceling an additional $450 million in grants to the institution earlier this week.
White House officials accused Harvard of doing nothing to resolve the “pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment” that has been “plaguing” the Cambridge, Mass., campus — a reference to the protests and encampments over the war in Gaza.
“There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school’s claim to taxpayer support,” the administration’s task force on antisemitism said in a statement.
Those $450 million cuts stacked on top of $2.2 billion in funding the administration had already frozen, officials said.
The university rejected a list of demands from the White House, and in April sued the Trump administration to thwart the $2.2 billion funding freeze.
Harvard is the wealthiest university in the nation, with an approximately $50 billion endowment as of fiscal year 2023, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Earlier this year, Harvard announced a hiring freeze as a result of financial challenges from “rapidly shifting federal policies.”
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