Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 said the turn against higher education in Washington posed a greater threat to the University than anything in recent memory, making his most direct comments yet on Republicans’ sweep to power during a closed-door session of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
At the FAS meeting on Dec. 3, Garber said he met with roughly 40 members of Congress during six trips to Washington since becoming president. Garber said he emerged from the conversations convinced there was bipartisan frustration with Harvard and acknowledged that he believes the criticisms contain elements of truth.
Garber’s remarks — among his first since President-elect Donald Trump won a second term in the White House — suggest Harvard’s leaders are reevaluating their public messaging in the face of an increasingly hostile climate in Washington. During his remarks, Garber said that the University’s communications strategy has not worked as well as its leaders had thought...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/13/garber-trump-harvard-impact/.
"Not worked as well as its leaders had thought" is probably the understatement of the year. It reminds yours truly of the understatement in Emperor Hirohito's announcement of the surrender of Japan in World War II: "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage."*
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*https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/key-documents/jewel-voice-broadcast/.
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