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Hope they keep their resolve on this one...

‪Bill Grueskin‬
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Harvard “is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement.”

The university president said “the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is ‘false’”

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement, according to th...
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August 3, 2025 at 7:10 PM

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 speaks at the University’s Commencement ceremony in May.


Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 speaks at the University’s Commencement ceremony in May. By Briana Howard Pagán

By William C. Mao and Veronica H. Paulus, Crimson Staff Writers
18 hours ago

Updated August 3, 2025, at 11:06 a.m

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement, according to three faculty members familiar with the matter. … The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement, Garber said, according to the three faculty members.

Harvard and the Trump administration restarted negotiations in June to restore billions of dollars in frozen federal research funding. In recent weeks, the government has reached settlements with several of Harvard’s peers — including Columbia University, which paid more than $200 million in exchange for access to federal funding.

The Trump administration has pushed Harvard to cut an even costlier deal, and the New York Times reported last Monday that the University is considering a settlement with a price tag of half a billion dollars.

But Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials, according to the three faculty familiar with the conversation.

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