Harvard University President Alan Garber claims that he is taking a voluntary reduction of 25%, as the institution faces $ 3 million in federal financing cuts Trump, according to a Harvard spokesman.
A spokesman refused to provide Garber salary or the amount of money he would give up.
Garber, who was formerly provost and interim president, made $ 922,068, plus a compensation of $ 242,968 during the calendar year 2023, according to Harvard Magazine.
This is not the first time Garber has stated that it was reduced by 25%. By 2020 he signed a letter By claiming that he and other administrators would have a 25% reduction in the midst of financial challenges caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the financial records, the payment for Garber 2020 was $ 825,670, 86% of the previous year’s payment of $ 955,759.
The claimed cut will begin on July 1, 2025 and the last on June 30, 2026, for the exercise 2026, according to a spokesman.
Other leaders from all over the institution also say they bring voluntary contributions for the next year, confirmed the university spokesman.
More than 80 teachers pledged to give 10% of their salaries to support the institution, according to The Harvard Crimson.
Harvard too announced Which will devote $ 250 million of “central funding” to support the investigation affected by suspended and canceled federal aid.
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The salary -claimed reduction occurs after Brown University announced In March, President Christina H. Paxson would have a 10%salary reduction.
Brown also announced a salary freezing for the President’s Cabinet members and a voluntary freezing for other compensated administrators. Staff was also implemented who hired freezing, freezing non -essential travel and slowing.
Harvard announced to March a pause on hiringwhich included schools and administrative units to “examine discretionary and non -salary expenditure, evaluate the scope and schedule of capital renewal projects and carry out a rigorous review of any new multiannual commitment”.
A month later, the schools and units of the central administration announced The Faculty and non -union staff would not receive increases in payment of merits for the next fiscal year and there would be breaks in non -essential capital projects and expenses.
Reducing Garber’s reduction states that he has taken after a Tuesday announcement by the Trump administration, which said that eight federal agencies ended with $ 450 million in aid, as well as the $ 2.2 billion already frozen.
The federal government has stated “perverse race discrimination and anti -Semitic harassment” as continuous reasons to reduce federal funding.
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told the institution last week that the federal government would be Exception from Harvard University to acquire new federal grants While the university continues to refuse to fulfill the administration’s demands on its campus.
“The Harvard Campus, which was a symbol of academic prestige, has become a site of raising of signaling and discrimination of virtue. It is not leadership; it is cowardice. And it is not academic freedom; it is an institutional decrease. Anti -Semitism said.
President Alan Garber wrote in a letter For the Secretary of American Education, Linda McMahon, who share the same “common ground”, but the university “will not deliver its nucleus, the principles legally protected by fear.”
Garber returned to administration through a litigation In April. The institution argues that its constitutional rights had been violated by government threats to remove thousands of dollars in funding if the school did not meet the demands for review.
Following the advertised cuts of $ 450 million, the university modified his demand.
“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 research can pursue,” says the lawsuit.