“The Trump administration has largely targeted elite private universities in recent months as a part of what it has depicted as a campaign to fight antisemitism and reshape institutions that it views as cathedrals of liberalism. But its turn toward U.C.L.A. has been sharp. On July 29, the day the University of California settled a lawsuit that accused U.C.L.A. of allowing pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students on campus, the Justice Department said it believed U.C.L.A. had committed civil rights violations. Dr. Frenk announced later that week the federal government had started freezing research money. The White House’s demands of U.C.L.A. fit into a broad pattern of how the Trump administration has targeted California. The Trump administration is seeking more than $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles, to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding that the government halted”

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“It is also sending a message to other schools and systems, such as the University of California, launching investigations and using federal research dollars as leverage to exert more control.”

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“Info about an AAUP/AFT lawsuit against Trump administration for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research at Columbia University”

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“D.H.S. has never tried to reshape the student body of a university by revoking access to its vetting systems, and it is unique to target one institution over hundreds that it certifies every year.”

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“So, for example, they threatened to withhold all federal school funding from the state of California — which is obviously a massive amount of money — because California allows transgender girls to compete on girls’ sports teams.”

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“But the executive orders issued on Monday demonstrated the extent to which the Trump administration intends to use the power of the executive branch to compel schools and educators to conform to its vision for social policy.”

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