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The Trump administration is searching for $1 billion from UCLA to settle discrimination and antisemitism allegations in trade for restoring greater than half a billion {dollars} in frozen grant funding to the college.
The proposed settlement despatched to the college Friday requires UCLA to pay the federal authorities $1 billion over a number of installments, together with establishing a $172 million claims fund for alleged victims of violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based mostly on race, shade, faith, intercourse or nationwide origin.
The Trump administration has already suspended $584 million in federal grants from UCLA after the Justice Division introduced it discovered the college violated the Equal Safety Clause of the 14th Modification and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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The Trump administration is searching for $1 billion from UCLA to settle a lawsuit. (AP; Getty Pictures)
In a press release supplied to Fox Information Digital, UC President James Milliken stated the college system had acquired the doc with the provide and was reviewing it.
“Earlier this week, we supplied to have interaction in good-faith dialogue with the (Justice) Division to guard the college and its important analysis mission,” Milliken stated. “As a public college, we’re stewards of taxpayer assets, and a fee of this scale would fully devastate our nation’s biggest public college system in addition to inflict nice hurt on our college students and all Californians.
“Individuals throughout this nice nation depend on the very important work of UCLA and the UC system for applied sciences and medical therapies that save lives, develop the U.S. financial system and defend our nationwide safety.”
“Demanding $1 billion from a publicly-funded, main analysis establishment is a misuse of tax {dollars} that may damage the College’s mission of serving college students and the general public,” he stated in a press release. “UCLA, and the bigger UC system, has taken significant steps to make it clear that combatting antisemitism and defending Jewish college students, school, and neighborhood members on campus is a high precedence.”
“They’ve been dedicated to growing safety, strengthening insurance policies in opposition to hate, and fascinating instantly with Jewish voices to raised inform their strategy,” he added. “If the Administration’s mission is really to guard the Jewish neighborhood, they’d be supporting that work – not hamstringing it with these outlandish calls for that may solely take away wanted assets and companies for college students and college.”
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California state Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat whose district encompasses UCLA, stated the Trump administration’s demand is “harming the engines of American energy, innovation, and, certainly, greatness.”
The transfer got here a day after California Gov. Gavin Newsom criticized settlements between Columbia and Brown universities, each Ivy League faculties, and the Trump administration.
“We’re not Brown, we’re not Columbia, and I’m not going to be governor if we act like that,” Newsom stated whereas talking in San Francisco. “Interval. Full cease, I’ll struggle like hell to make it possible for doesn’t occur.”
Columbia pays greater than $220 million to resolve a number of federal civil rights investigations, together with $21 million to settle claims of antisemitic employment discrimination in opposition to Jewish school after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assaults in Israel.
Brown will shell out $50 million over a decade to state workforce growth organizations as a part of a deal struck with the U.S. authorities.
In July, UCLA agreed to pay $6 million to settle a lawsuit introduced by Jewish college students and college members over the college’s dealing with of anti-Israel protests, together with permitting protesters to ban Jews from part of the campus generally known as a “Jew Exclusion Zone.”
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The lawsuit was introduced final yr by the Becket Fund for Spiritual Liberty, which accused UCLA of “aiding and abetting” an antisemitic tradition, together with “segregating Jewish college students and stopping them from accessing the center of campus.”
