University of California Sudents, Faculty, Saff File Lawsuit Against Trump Administration
San Francisco: The Trump administration uses civil rights laws to carry out a campaign against the University of California in order to reduce academic freedom and to weaken the free conversation, according to the case held by every workers’ union representing faculties, staff, student organizations and UC employees.
Weeks come after the Trump administration fined $ 1.2 billion to Los Angeles, the University of California, and is accused of allowing the school to allow anti -Semitism on campus. It was the first state university targeted by a widespread financing ice cream. The administration froze or paused federal funds on similar allegations against distinguished private colleges, including Harvard, Brown and Columbia.
According to the case, the Trump administration made various requests in the proposed reconciliation proposal, including the government’s proposed reconciliation, including the government’s faculty, students and personnel data, accepting and recruitment, ending diversity scholarships, prohibiting demonstrations in a night related to university ownership, and cooperating with immigration practices.
The Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for a comment and did not respond to the office of the President of the UC system.
Stett Holbrook, a spokesman for the University of California System, said that although not included in the university case, it is part of many legal and advocacy efforts to recover and maintain the financing.
“Federal deductions for research financing threatens life -saving biomedical research, prevents the US economic competitiveness, and endangers the health of Americans dependent on the university’s latest medical science and innovation.” He said.
The coalition filed by the American University Professors’ Association or AAUP is directed and represented by Democracy forward, a legal group for frying federal funds for other lawsuits against Trump administration.
“The Trump administration has repeatedly employed in this attack on the independence of the Higher Education Institutions and the Federal Research Funds, which are reliable of these institutions and the public interest in the Federal Research Funds,” Sudden, unilateral and illegal ended, “the case opened to the Federal Court in San Francisco. He said.
The US Department of Education Civil Rights Office launched dozens of federal investigations targeting K-12 school regions.
James Milliken, the President of the University of California, said on Monday that the Federal Government has initiated investigations and other actions against the 10 campuses of UC, but did not offer any details in a statement.
“This represents one of the biggest threats for the University of California, including the funds to federal support and research and student financial aid, including about $ 10 billion financing in Medicare and Medicaid financing and research and student financial aid.
Since the Trump administration was invaded by the President’s liberalism and anti -Semitism, he used federal fund control to force reforms on elite colleges. The management also initiated investigations about diversity, equality and efforts to include, saying that they were discriminating against white and Asian American students.
This summer, Columbia University agreed to pay 200 million dollars as part of an agreement to solve investigations of the government’s allegations that the school has violated the laws of federal antibusation. The agreement also restored more than $ 400 million research grants.
The Trump administration uses its agreement with Columbia as a template for other universities, and is now seen as a expectation of financial penalties.
