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On February 11, 2026, the Trump administration dropped its appeal of the November 2025 preliminary injunction stopping its threatened $1.2 billion “fine” of UCLA. This is a major victory for UC, for higher education, and for US democracy. Back on November 14, 2025, US District Court Judge Rita Lin issued a preliminary injunction stopping the Trump administration from issuing a $1.2 billion “fine” to UCLA. In granting the preliminary injunction, Judge Lin wrote: “The undisputed record demonstrates that Defendants [the Trump administration] have engaged in coercive and retaliatory conduct in violation of the First Amendment and Tenth Amendment. It also shows that…

Please consider signing on to an open letter in support of the California Science and Health Research Bond Act. This bill places a bond on the 2026 ballot to create and fund the California Foundation for Science and Health Research, which would award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and health care organizations in the State of California for scientific research and development.

On November 21, 2025, UC President Milliken reversed course and pledged to continue funding the hiring incentive for the Presidential Postdocs Fellowship Program. This represents a significant faculty organizing win. The UCLA Faculty Association thanks the thousands of faculty who signed letters, sent emails, and spread the word quickly! 

On November 19, 2025, four UCLA undergraduate students were arrested by UCLA police while picketing in support of AFSCME 3299’s protected strike. On November 20, 2025, two UCLA graduate student members of UAW 4811 were detained by university police on Wednesday at a union action about contract violations and labor cuts. The UCLA Faculty Association joined with AFSCME 3299, UAW 4811, Teamsters Local 2010, UPTE CWA 9119, UCLA Chapter of University Council – AFT, UC-AFT Local 1474, the UCLA Undergraduate Students Association, and all of our sibling UC Faculty Associations to condemn UC’s violation of our free speech and organizing…

On September 30, 2025, we spearheaded a special meeting of the Legislative Assembly of the UCLA Academic Senate, which unanimously passed a resolution, 116 votes in favor and zero opposed, to request that Chancellor Julio Frenk share the Trump “demand letter” with the public.

On September 16, a coalition of 21 groups including the UCLA Faculty Association filed suit to stop “the unlawful threat of federal funding cuts not authorized by law to illegally coerce the UC into suppressing free speech and academic freedom rights, implementing harmful federal policies on the Trump administration’s behalf and otherwise violating the constitutional and state law rights of UC faculty, students, academic employees, and staff employees.” Our lawsuit was covered by the Los Angeles Times and more information is here and here. Also, on September 15, the Council of UC Faculty Associations (CUCFA) filed suit to compel the UC to publicly share the Trump administration $1 billion…