Harvard weighs how to strike deal with Trump admin without looking like it caved: Report

Harvard has focused its interior discussions astir a imaginable truce with the Trump administration connected however to marque definite it doesn't look similar it capitulated, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

The Times reported that Harvard was successful the mediate of negotiations with the Trump medication and considering "how to onslaught a woody without compromising its values oregon appearing to person capitulated."

Harvard and the Trump medication person been engaged successful a back-and-forth arsenic the medication froze implicit $2 cardinal successful the university's national assistance and contracts funding. Trump has besides sought to prohibition planetary students connected campus, which a Massachusetts justice temporarily blocked, siding with Harvard due to the fact that it would apt endure "immediate and irreparable harm" if enforced.

The Times, citing 3 radical acquainted with the university's situation, said Harvard was "shaping interior debates" astir its talks with Trump's administration. 

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People clasp up signs during the Harvard Students for Freedom rally successful enactment of planetary students astatine the Harvard University field successful Boston, Massachusetts, connected May 27, 2025.  (Photo by RICK FRIEDMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump hinted connected Friday that an statement connected Harvard's planetary students mightiness beryllium announced wrong a week. 

"Many radical person been asking what is going connected with Harvard University and their largescale improprieties that we person been addressing, looking for a solution," Trump wrote connected Truth Social. "We person been moving intimately with Harvard, and it is precise imaginable that a Deal volition beryllium announced implicit the adjacent week oregon so."

The president noted the assemblage "acted highly appropriately" during negotiations, applauding their leadership's evident committedness to bash "what is right." 

The Times study said that Harvard's interior discussions were "fraught" owed to the Trump administration's requests, which included issues of viewpoint diverseness astatine the Ivy League institution, arsenic good arsenic to adhere to "merit-based" hiring and admissions practices.

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President Donald Trump arrives to the South Lawn of the White House from Camp David connected Monday, June 9, 2025.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)

Harvard's president, Alan Garber, has acknowledged the university's problem with viewpoint diverseness connected campus.

Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers told The New York Times that a woody with the Trump medication shouldn't beryllium interpreted arsenic a surrender. Summers suggested Harvard could payment from addressing definite issues portion besides maintaining their independence. 

"I don’t perceive anyone astatine Harvard saying Harvard doesn’t request to enactment astatine diverseness of perspective," helium told the outlet.

The erstwhile assemblage president besides said that Harvard would apt look disapproval nary substance what.

"There’s nary mode guardant for Harvard without determination being important criticism, truthful I deliberation it’s a question of which critics you are going to have," Summers said.

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Harvard President Alan Garber acknowledges an extended circular of applause during Harvard University's commencement ceremonies, Thursday, May 29, 2025, successful Cambridge, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

The Trump medication hopes a imaginable woody with Harvard volition travel soon and service arsenic a exemplary for different elite universities.

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Harvard did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.