By JULIE WATSON, Related Press
The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants for the College of California, Los Angeles, almost double the quantity that was beforehand thought, the varsity’s chancellor introduced Wednesday.
UCLA is the primary public college whose federal grants have been focused by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations associated to antisemitism and affirmative motion. The Trump administration has frozen or paused federal funding over related allegations in opposition to personal faculties.
“If these funds remain suspended, it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation,” Chancellor Julio Frenk mentioned Wednesday in an announcement, noting the groundbreaking analysis that has come out of the college.
The departments affected depend on funding from the Nationwide Science Basis, the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and the Division of Vitality, Frenk mentioned.
The Trump administration just lately introduced the U.S. Division of Justice’s Civil Rights Division discovered UCLA violated the Equal Safety Clause of the Fourteenth Modification and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”
The announcement got here as UCLA reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish college students and a Jewish professor who sued the college, arguing it violated their civil rights by permitting pro-Palestinian protesters in 2024 to dam their entry to lessons and different areas on campus.
The college has mentioned that it’s dedicated to campus security and inclusivity and can proceed to implement suggestions.
The brand new UC president, James B. Milliken, mentioned in an announcement Wednesday that it has agreed to talks with the administration over the allegations in opposition to UCLA.
“These cuts do nothing to address antisemitism,” Milliken mentioned. “Moreover, the extensive work that UCLA and the entire University of California have taken to combat antisemitism has apparently been ignored.”
Milliken mentioned the “cuts would be a death knell for innovative work that saves lives, grows our economy, and fortifies our national security. It is in our country’s best interest that funding be restored.”
As a part of the lawsuit settlement, UCLA mentioned it should contribute $2.3 million to eight organizations that fight antisemitism and help the college’s Jewish group. It additionally has created an Workplace of Campus and Neighborhood Security, instituting new insurance policies to handle protests on campus. Frenk, whose Jewish father and grandparents fled Nazi Germany to Mexico and whose spouse is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, launched an initiative to fight antisemitism and anti-Israeli bias.
Final week, Columbia agreed to pay $200 million as a part of a settlement to resolve investigations into the federal government’s allegations that the varsity violated federal antidiscrimination legal guidelines. The settlement additionally restores greater than $400 million in analysis grants.
The Trump administration plans to make use of its cope with Columbia as a template for different universities, with monetary penalties that at the moment are seen as an expectation.
Initially Printed: August 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM PDT
