Donald Trump’s administration seeks that the University of California (UC), one of the most prominent higher education centers in the United States, disburse 1,000 million dollars for allegedly tolerate anti -Semitic acts and other civil rights violations. It is a new chapter in the struggle between the White House of the Republican and the universities. The UC is the first public educational network attacked by Trump. “A payment of this type would completely devastate our system and inflict enormous damage to our students and all California,” said Rector James Milliken in a statement aimed at the community in which he criticizes the offensive. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has gone further and has described the maneuver as “extortion.” The Democratic politician promises to fight in court.
The measure and amount have been confirmed by an anonymous source of the White House to the AP agency. The government has frozen federal resources to private universities, especially elite centers such as Harvard and Columbia. Pause to financing also now threatens centers such as the University of Virginia and George Mason, in the same state. The University of Pennsylvania capitulated last month before Washington’s pressures for positive discrimination issues.
The Executive has promised to combat progressive policies that have marked a trend in American universities in recent years. Either the defense of the rights of transgender in sports competences or the freedom of expression of students in protests against the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
The Trump administration seeks with its threat that the university eliminates any positive discrimination initiative for hiring and admissions, actions that have benefited minorities so that they have access to quality higher education. These types of initiatives were touched to death two years ago in a controversial failure adopted by the conservative majority of the American Supreme. The Government affirms that it is monitoring that the centers respect the decision of the Constitutional Court.
The UC is a 10 campus network, including institutions reputed such as Berkeley (San Francisco), UCLA (Los Angeles) and UC San Diego. It has about 300,000 students, which makes it one of the largest and most important public systems in the United States.
Some of these headquarters served last year of epicenter for some of the most significant protests against genocide in Gaza in California, the most populous state in the country. Some of these demonstrations were strongly repressed by the police forces of the centers with the consent of the university authorities.
Trump accuses that California protests housed anti -Semitic feelings against Jewish students. Therefore, its administration has frozen the delivery of 584 million dollars in resources that would be employed for scientific research and development in the system, considered a national power that produces more knowledge than national institutes. The Network receives about 6,700 federal scholarships and government contracts that amount to 3,850 million dollars.
The Trump administration seeks that the UC modifies its internal standards so that it expressly prohibits the manifestations that interrupt the activities within their campus. It also requires the creation of a figure that reports advances and compliance with the federal government.
Governor Newsom, the protagonist of several direct clashes with the president, has advanced this Friday that they will not give in to what he considers a new blackmail of Trump. “We will not be complicit in this type of attacks on the academic freedom of an extraordinary institution,” said the Democrat. He promised to sue the federal government so that the courts do not condition the amounts destined for investigation. Newsom says that the center will not agree with the government, as other universities such as Brown and Columbia have done.
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