The Trump administration requests an agreement of 1 billion US dollars from the University of California, Los Angeles, said a White House Official House on Friday, weeks after the Ministry of Justice had accused the School of anti -Semitism and other violations of civil rights.
The UCLA is the first public university that is aimed by widespread funding for reproaches of violations of civil rights in connection with anti -Semitism and positive measures.
President Donald Trump’s government has it frozen or paused federal financing About similar allegations against elite private universities. In the past few weeks, the administration has completed business with the Brown University for $ 50 million and Columbia University for 221 million US dollars Executed larger settlementsLike at Harvard University.
The White House official has not placed any additional requirements of the administration to the UCLA or explained the comparison amount. The person was not entitled to speak publicly about the request and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The Trump administration Exuberant scholarships of 584 million US dollars The university said this week for UCLA. The Department of Civil Rights of the Ministry of Justice emphasized that the UCLA violated the same protective clause of the fourteenth amendment and title VI of the Civil Right Act from 1964 “by acting with deliberate indifference in creating an enemy education environment for Jewish and Israeli students”.
The university had widespread criticism of the way it was handled scatter From Israel-Hamas War Protesters in 2024. Jewish students said that demonstrators in the warehouse prevented them from getting to class. One night protesters attacked the camp, threw traffic cones and fired pepper spray with fights that lasted for hours and injured more than a dozen people before the police entered hundreds the next day. opposed the command to goPresent More than 200 people were arrested.
The President of the University of California, James B. Millicsin a statement on Friday said that the university checked a document that “only preserved” it from the Ministry of Justice.
“At the beginning of this week we offered to involve a dialogue with good faith with the department to protect the university and its critical research mission,” said Milliken. “As a public university, we are administrators of taxpayers’ resources, and payment of this size would completely destroy the largest public university system in our country and harm our students and all California.”
This would not be the first settlement of the university about the protests of 2024. Last month the UCLA reached one 6 million US dollars agreement With three Jewish students and a Jewish professor who sued and argued that the university violated their civil rights by blocking Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in 2024 their access to classes and other areas on campus.
The agreement is made for almost a year after an injunction was issued, the first time that a US judge had decided against a university because of her handling of the campus because of her handling of the campus Demonstrations against Israel’s war in the Gaza.
The UCLA had initially argued that it had no legal responsibility for the problem, since demonstrators, not the university, blocked the access of the Jewish students. The university also worked with law enforcement authorities Throw the attempts to set up new protest camps.
But the US district judge Mark Scarsi disagreed and ordered the UCLA and ordered Create a plan to protect Jewish students On campus. Since then, the University of California, one of the largest public university systems in the country, has created system -wide campus guidelines for protests and explains that it is committed to security and inclusive on campus and will continue to implement recommendations.
As part of the settlement, the UCLA said that it will contribute 2.3 million US dollars to eight organizations that combat anti -Semitism and support the Jewish community of the university. It has also created an office for campus and community security, in which new guidelines for managing protests are led on campus.
The Ucla Chancellor Julio Frenk, whose Jewish father and grandparents from Nazi Germany fled to Mexico and whose wife is the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, started an initiative to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli bias.
The Trump government has applied its control over federal financing to urge reforms at Elite universities, which the president turns as a streaming through liberalism and anti -Semitism. The administration has also initiated studies on diversity, justice and inclusion efforts and explained that they discriminate against white and Asian American students.
Last month, Columbia University agreed to pay 200 million US dollars as part of an agreement to solve investigations into the government’s allegations that the school had violated the federal anti -discrimination laws. The agreement also restores research grants of more than 400 million US dollars.
The Trump administration plans to deal with Columbia as Template For other universities with financial punishments that are now considered to be expectation.
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AP reporters Jocelyn Geecker and Julie Watson contributed to this report.
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