UCLA says more than $1 billion at risk if feds withhold funding

UCLA allows Jews to be harassed on campus and kept out of class.  The campus has allowed riots that closed the campus for weeks.  Many of its faculty are under investigation for being terrorist Hamas supporters—and teaching that in the classroom.  It should be no surprise that UCLA SHOULD lose one billion in Federal funding.  The Administration needs a complete replacement.

“UCLA could be at risk of losing more than $1 billion if the Trump administration follows through on threats to withhold funding from colleges that continue any race-based programs, the university’s chief financial officer said Thursday.

The campus receives about $900 million in direct federal funding for “a range of contracts and grants” and another $200 million for overhead, said Stephen Agostini, UCLA’s chief financial officer, during a virtual town hall Thursday. UCLA held the town hall to discuss federal policy actions and their impacts on the campus. 

“All of these funds are unfortunately at risk as the new administration considers how it wishes to pursue with its own budget making and its own initiatives,” Agostini said. 

This is not about the Trump budget.  It is ending the funding for the terrorist/KKK campus.  Do you think they should get a dime?

UCLA says more than $1 billion at risk if feds withhold funding

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UCLA could be at risk of losing more than $1 billion if the Trump administration follows through on threats to withhold funding from colleges that continue any race-based programs, the university’s chief financial officer said Thursday.

The campus receives about $900 million in direct federal funding for “a range of contracts and grants” and another $200 million for overhead, said Stephen Agostini, UCLA’s chief financial officer, during a virtual town hall Thursday. UCLA held the town hall to discuss federal policy actions and their impacts on the campus. 

“All of these funds are unfortunately at risk as the new administration considers how it wishes to pursue with its own budget making and its own initiatives,” Agostini said. 

Agostini added that if UCLA is currently looking for other opportunities in the event those dollars are withdrawn, but acknowledged that there are “not really funding options out there” to replace that level of funding. 

“There’s really no way to sugarcoat it,” he said.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Education warned colleges in a “dear colleague” letter that they must get rid of any race-based initiatives, including programming like race-specific graduation ceremonies, dormitories and administrative supports.

Like other University of California campuses, UCLA has a number of such programs and resources, including its Black Bruin Resource Center.

The “dear colleague” letter, however, does “not have the force of law,” said Mitchell Chang, UCLA’s vice provost of equity, diversity and inclusion. “We continue as a university to take all of those things seriously,” Chang said. “But at the same time, we are confident that what we’re doing complies with existing laws.”