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Trump Administration Proposes $1 Billion Settlement to Restore $584 Million in Frozen UCLA Research Grants

Under the draft agreement, UCLA would face installment payments, oversight measures, student compensation, with frozen research grants released only after compliance.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JULY 30: People walk on the plaza outside Royce Hall, the site of 2024 pro-Palestinian protests, on the UCLA campus on July 30, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. The University of California, Los Angeles has reached a $6 million settlement with Jewish students and a professor in a lawsuit alleging discrimination over the 2024 pro-Palestinian campus protests. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
A student rests in the shade on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on August 7.
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Overview

  • The Department of Justice found UCLA acted with “deliberate indifference” to antisemitic harassment under Title VI and the Equal Protection Clause, triggering the freeze of $584 million in NSF, NIH and DOE grants.
  • The settlement draft would require UCLA to pay $1 billion in installments and fund a $172 million claims pool for individuals affected by alleged civil rights violations.
  • Chancellor Julio Frenk and UC President James B. Milliken have agreed to negotiate the proposal while warning that prolonged funding suspensions threaten breakthroughs in neuroscience, clean energy and cancer research.
  • Columbia and Brown universities settled similar probes this summer by agreeing to multimillion-dollar fines and oversight conditions, whereas Harvard is contesting its funding suspension in court.
  • Critics caution that hefty payments and strict federal oversight could undermine academic freedom and strain UCLA’s mission as a leading public research institution.