Harvard professors pledge to take pay cut in support of university's fight against Trump [View all]
Source: CBS News/Boston
Updated on: May 1, 2025 / 12:28 PM EDT
Dozens of Harvard University professors are pledging to take a temporary pay cut to support the school as it fights the Trump administration's move to freeze billions of dollars in federal funding.
So far, 84 senior faculty members have pledged to donate 10% of their salary this year "as our contribution to the university's financial resources while it legally contests these attacks," organizers said in a statement. Government professor Ryan Enos says the commitment adds up to an estimated $2.5 million.
Jeffrey Flier, a physiology and medicine professor at Harvard Medical School who has signed on to the effort, said tenured faculty are in the best position to support Harvard "in this time of crisis."
"This signals our commitment as faculty members to use means at our disposal to protect the university and, especially, staff and students who do not have the same protections," organizers wrote in the pledge.
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