The news comes after the administration suspended $584 million in federal grants for the university and if accepted would mark the biggest university payout to the White House
The Trump administration is demanding more than $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles, as part of an effort to reinstate hundreds of millions in previously suspended federal research funding according to media reports.
Under the proposal, obtained by The New York Times on Friday, UCLA would pay $1 billion to the U.S. government and contribute $172 million to a claims fund to compensate victims of civil rights violations.
If accepted, it would mark the largest payout by any university to reach a deal with the White House. By comparison, Columbia University agreed to pay $221 million in its settlement, while Brown University committed $50 million to state workforce programs.
University of California President James B. Milliken said in a statement Friday the document, sent by the Department of Justice, was “just received” by the school and they were in the process of actively reviewing it.
He continued: “As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.
