Some feared that Harvard could be ready to pay even more than other Ivy League schools did to settle disputes with the White House. The post Deal between Harvard and Trump administration not imminent,

The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.

Harvard President Alan Garber told faculty that there is no set deal, and that talks with the government have been “on-again, off-again,” sources told GBH News.