Trump's Ucla Deal: Pay Us $1b+, and We Can Still Cut Your Grants Again
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The Trump administration's deal with UCLA involves demanding over $1 billion in payment while still reserving the right to cut research grants, sparking concerns about the implications for research funding and government-university relations.
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>But the draft agreement specifically disavows some intrusive actions. “No provision of this Agreement, individually or taken together, shall be construed as giving the United States authority to dictate faculty hiring, University hiring, admission decisions, or the content of academic speech,” it dictates.
>That includes hiring someone to oversee its compliance with the agreement, which includes changing internal UCLA regulations and gathering all sorts of statistics on hiring and admissions to hand over to the government. It would also have to pay for a resolution monitor if any disagreements between the two parties crop up. Then pay for an arbitrator if those can’t be resolved via negotiations.
It sounds like this monitor and resolution monitor would have the same powers that the feds claim they won't have ...