"The lawsuit comes weeks after the Trump administration fined the University of California, Los Angeles $1.2 billion and froze research funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus and other civil rights violations. It was the first public university to be targeted with a widespread funding freeze. The administration has frozen or paused federal funding over similar allegations against elite private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia."
"According to the lawsuit, the Trump administration has made several demands in its proposed settlement offer to UCLA, including giving government access to faculty, student, and staff data, releasing admissions and hiring data, ending diversity scholarships, banning overnight demonstrations on university property and cooperating with immigration enforcement. The Department of Justice didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Stett Holbrook, a spokesman for the University of California system, said that while the university is not involved in the lawsuit, it is part of numerous legal and advocacy efforts to restore and maintain funding."
A coalition of faculty, staff, student organizations and every labor union representing UC workers filed a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration is using civil rights laws to target the University of California to curtail academic freedom and undermine free speech. The lawsuit follows a $1.2 billion fine and a research funding freeze at UCLA after accusations of campus antisemitism and other civil rights violations. The administration has paused funding at other elite colleges. Settlement demands reportedly include access to personnel and admissions data, ending diversity scholarships, banning overnight demonstrations and cooperation with immigration enforcement. The coalition is led by the AAUP and represented by Democracy Forward.
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