As already noted

Blog readers will have noted yesterday our view that UCLA reaching a Columbia-type monetary settlement with the feds is hard to imagine.* Others agree. From the LA Times:

Mark Yudof, a former UC president who led the system from 2008 to 2013, said he felt the Trump administration was targeting a public university as a way to “make a statement” about the president’s higher education aims going beyond Ivy League institutions. “But this is not Columbia,” Yudof said, referring to the $221-million settlement the New York campus recently reached with the White House to resolve investigations over alleged antisemitism amid its response to pro-Palestinian protests...

“The University of California is much more complex,” said Yudof... “For one, an issue that may affect UCLA is not going to affect UC Merced or UC Riverside. But do you come to an agreement on all campuses? If there is a settlement payment, does it affect all campuses, depending on the cost?” 

George Blumenthal, a former chancellor of UC Santa Cruz, said he “just can’t see UC making the kind of deal that Columbia did or that Harvard contemplates. Committing public funds to Washington to the tune of tens or hundreds of million dollars strikes me as politically untenable in California.” ...

Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-02/ucla-doj-trump-settlement-or-lawsuit.

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*https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2025/08/no-relief-from-this-court-what-are.html.