University of California Faculty Wins Trump Funding Fight (1)

Nov. 15, 2025, 3:35 AM UTC

The Trump administration was ordered by a judge to stop freezing or threatening to withhold federal grant funds to the University of California as part of a nationwide pressure campaign to impose a raft of policy changes on elite colleges.

In a major setback for President Donald Trump, US District Judge Rita F. Lin on Friday sided with a coalition of faculty groups and employee unions that had accused the administration of trying to silence faculty research and speech.

The judge voided the administration’s termination in late July of about $584 million in federal grants for research projects at ...

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