University President Alan M. Garber ’76 affirmed Harvard’s fight against the Trump administration in his address at Harvard’s Alumni Day on Friday, drawing roars from the crowd.

In the months since it became a top target in the administration’s efforts to overhaul higher education, Harvard has activated an all-out media blitz to burnish its image.

When Harvard President Alan Garber took the stage at commencement, he was met with cheers. Days earlier, Columbia acting President Claire Shipman was booed.

The event comes only a few hours after the institution amended its lawsuit against the federal government on Thursday evening and asked for a temporary restraining order. Those actions were in response to President Donald Trump’s issuance of a proclamation this week declaring that the school’s foreign students would not be allowed into the country.

Since President Donald Trump began targeting the Ivy League campus as part of a pressure campaign to reform American colleges, Harvard has turned to the public and financial support of its alumni more than ever.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

The latest attacks from the Trump administration against the institution are "illegal" steps aiming to retailiate against it, Harvard University President Alan Garber said.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday, blocking nearly all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University.

Five years into his Ph.D. program, Sudipta Saha, a Harvard University student from Canada, looked with disbelief at the Trump administration’s notice for foreign students at the university to transfer or leave the country.