Nearly three months after returning to the White House, US President Donald Trump’s goal in federal institutions has diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in Lodgerheads with an institution older than the United States – Harvard University.
Taking this battle for the Trump administration, which last Friday demanded the university to hire, admission and end their DEI initiative in programs, a 69 -year -old Jewish man. The 31st President of Harvard University, Allen M Garber, was unequal to the rejection of these demands, including sharing hiring data.
He said, “Although some of the demands mentioned by the government are aimed at combating antisemiamitism, representing the direct government regulation of ‘intellectual conditions’ in the majority Harvard,” he said. Letter The Harvard community was addressed.
Who is Alan M Garber?
- Rock Island in 1955, in Illinois, Jean and Harry Garber, Born in Alan M Garber graduated from Rock Island High School in 1973. He grew up as a practice Jew. According to a report by Forward.com, his father owned a liquor store and played Viola in Quad City Symphony. He has a twin sister, Debora, who is an artist. His elder brother, David, lives in Jerusalem.
- He is associated with the oldest university in the country in five decades. In 1976, Shri Garber received the title of Summa Come from Harvard College with AB in Economics in 1976. A year later, he earned AM in economics from the same university. In 1982, he finished his PhD in Economics from Harvard, and MD from Stanford University School of Medicine. He was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1986 to 2011.
- His appointment as Harvard’s interim president was considered a stopgap, when Claudin Gay resigned after the controversy in early 2024 as to how he handled Palestine’s opposition and many people considered the growing antisementism in the campus. Once when Mr. Garber was in the hull, he helped to stabilize the university and by August, he was permanently appointed in a job.
- In the last week, Mr. Garber has found himself at the center of an intense fighting between the office of the President’s most powerful institute – the office of the President – and academics. Despite the decision of administration at the distance of $ 2.2 billion in the university’s federal grants and more possible risks, Mr. Garber’s moral clarity has earned him pladits.
- Mr. Garber met his wife, oncologist Anne Yahanda when he worked in Brigham and Women’s Hospital. They have four children. He is currently a Mallinchrodent Professor of Harvard University’s Provost and Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He makes faculty appointments in Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Department of Economics.