Harvard president Alan Garber, an economist and doctor, is battling the White House in court on behalf of all higher education.

The email landed at 10 minutes to midnight on a Friday in early April—a more menacing email than Alan Garber had imagined. The Harvard president had been warned that something was coming. His university had drawn the unwanted and sustained attention of the White House,

Alan M. Garber, an economist and physician who is Harvard University's provost and chief academic officer, will serve as interim president after Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday.

Harvard University appeared in federal court Monday in a pivotal case in its battle with the Trump administration, as the storied institution argued the government illegally cut $2.6 billion in

To fend off illiberalism from the White House, the university’s president also has to confront illiberalism on campus.

Staff from Harvard University’s recently closed Women’s Center, Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and Office of BGLTQ Student Life will fold into a new office amid the school’s supposed diversity,

Alan Garber will serve as Harvard’s president for another three years. ... Dr. Garber’s ties to Harvard stretch more than a half-century, since he became an undergraduate student there in 1973.

Alan M. Garber ’76’s first semester in Harvard’s top job would have tested even the most battle-hardened university president — and technically, he was not even the real president.