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Posted on 05/02/2025 5:55:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
More than 80 Harvard faculty members pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year to support the University in its resistance against the Trump administration’s attempts to exact concessions and freeze billions in federal funding.
The group is still collecting pledges, but faculty members’ commitments currently amount to more than $2 million, according to Government professor Ryan D. Enos. The faculty sent a letter outlining their planned donation to University President Alan M. Garber ’76 Wednesday afternoon.
“If we as a faculty are asking the University administration to resist the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom, we should also be willing to share in the financial sacrifice that will be necessary,” Harvard Kennedy School professor Dani Rodrik ’79, a signatory, wrote in an emailed statement.
The pledged donations come as Harvard faces lean times and continuing attacks on its funding. The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funding on April 15, as well as an additional $1 billion on April 21 after Harvard publicly rejected the White House’s sweeping demands for policy changes at the University.
The faculty members have yet to determine how the donations will be made or used, including what programs they would support and whether the 10 percent cut would come in the form of a reduction to their salaries or a post-tax donation. But the letter stated that faculty who signed the pledge would eventually vote on whether they feel the University would make a “good faith effort” to spend the donations supporting staff, students, and academic programs.
Though the donations would represent significant costs for individual professors, several faculty who pledged to donate acknowledged that no amount of donations from Harvard’s professoriate could plug the multibillion dollar hole in the University’s budget. But faculty said that they pledged to signal their strong support for Harvard’s decision to resist the White House’s actions — including through a lawsuit the University filed last week over the $2.2 billion cut.
HKS professor Archon Fung, who pledged to donate, said that though the donations would be “a drop in the bucket,” he is trying to take any steps he can to support his colleagues, staff, and students.
The faculty also cited the unequal impact of Trump’s actions across University affiliates as a key reason for donating, writing that students and untenured staff in certain programs have been more directly impacted by the frozen funding than tenured faculty.
The letter also acknowledged that not all faculty are in a position to donate portions of their annual income and stated that many non-donors were still “making important contributions” by helping students and staff directly.
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Government and Sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol said in an interview that though her pledge to donate was “significant money” for her and her husband, she felt it was necessary to support Harvard in its efforts to defend “basic constitutional rights.”
“The letter that the Trump administration sent to Harvard University is one of the most Stalinist things I’ve ever read, and I’ve studied communist revolutions,” Skocpol said. “It requires a firm and very broad response inside and beyond the universities.”
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These professors really need to learn how to count fingers and toes.
Harvard’s endowment is in the range of 51 billion dollars.
Is there a lower limit on the stupidity scale?
I guess that won’t be tax deductible on their part:
https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/us-news/trump-to-take-away-harvards-tax-exempt-status/
The dorks are being overpaid anyway. They won’t miss it.
The Force is strong with these idiots! Talk about indoctrination complete, these fools will donate to the richest university in the World to help out like good little boys and girls, all the while their leaders are laughing about the fools giving up 10%….
None of our taxpayer money should be given to private universities. Not a cent.
Like Mprmons-10% to the church.
Thomas Sowell wrote none of them are on welfare.
Harvard has 152 billion dollars and the dorks that hang out there for a living are giving them 10% of what they make. ROTFL. Time to start piss testing those clowns.
While forgoing 10% of salaries, the 80 are panicking to protect the millions they receive in federal grants that allow unaccountable expenditures on them selves
This is the insane brainwashed teaching our elite’s brats.
Shoot. I blew that one. It’s endowment is 52.3 billion. Still. That’s a lot of money for a Ivy league beer joint.
> More than 80 Harvard faculty members pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year … <
Well, that’s not very impressive. A true revolutionary would donate 100%, then pitch a tent on some Harvard lawn.
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One must tithe to receive dispensation from the Great God of Marxism.
I’ll be surprised if they pledge it with NO strings attached
BTTT
What’s the point of an endowment if they don’t use it for anything.
Given they are paid twice the going rate, they are pikers.
80+ faculty giving 10% for a current total of 2mil. That’s an average salary of $250k. Doesn’t include all the benefits they are getting from the funding. Assume that’s why they are fighting it. Still, I’m in the wrong business.
These faculty members have average salaries of 250K.
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