Fully Aligned?

In an LA Times story mainly about USC and its potential response to pressure from the feds, there was also some information about UC, which you might have missed.

From the LA Times: ...In response to a question about the proposal to USC and whether Newsom would issue the same threat of removing state funding to UCLA — the subject of ongoing negotiations over a sprawling U.S. Department of Justice antisemitism investigation — the governor said he was “not concerned” about the UC system... As UCLA continues to negotiate with the Trump administration, Newsom said he has confidence in the university system, whose leaders have been working “collaboratively for weeks” to come to a resolution.

The governor’s more tempered remarks were a shift from his comments in August and September, when he said UC should “sue” Trump and should not “bend the knee,” a reference to his belief that the deals made by Brown and Columbia universities with the White House were bad moves that empowered the government to target more campuses. “Governor Newsom, [UC] President [James B.] Milliken and the board of regents are fully aligned in protecting the values, integrity and unparalleled quality of the University of California system,” UC Board of Regents Chair Janet Reilly said [last] Friday in a statement to The Times following Newsom’s comments.

...While praising UC’s handling of federal negotiations, Newsom was less supportive of recent actions by UC Berkeley to release the personal information of 160 employees to Department of Education as part of a federal investigation into alleged campus antisemitism... Newsom said he “requested an independent review” of the data release in order to “make a judgment as to whether or not it was appropriate..."

Full story https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-03/newsom-usc-trump-campus-university-compact.