Harvard University President Alan Garber decried the Trump administration's actions against the school in a Monday letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences professors were instructed to develop contingency plans for center and departmental spending budget shortfalls, according to five professors informed at two separate department meetings this week.

Harvard President Alan Garber sought "common ground" with the Trump administration in the latest communications Monday, but again said the university will "not surrender its core, legally-protected principles out of fear of unfounded retaliation.