The Trump administration has sent the University of California, Los Angeles a draft agreement seeking more than $1 billion to settle federal civil-rights allegations stemming from the university’s handling of pro-Palestinian protests in 2024. The proposed deal, delivered on 8 August, would end Justice Department probes that accuse UCLA of allowing antisemitic harassment and other violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Federal agencies froze about $584 million in research grants to UCLA earlier in the week. Under the settlement proposal, the university would pay the government in instalments and contribute roughly $172 million to a fund compensating students and employees who say they were harmed, while an external monitor would oversee compliance and certain diversity-related programs would be curtailed, according to people familiar with the document. University of California President James B. Milliken confirmed receipt of the proposal and said the system is reviewing it, warning that a payment of that scale "would completely devastate" the 10-campus public network and jeopardise critical medical and scientific work. The demand is the largest yet in the administration’s campaign linking federal research money to universities’ responses to antisemitism claims. Columbia University agreed last month to pay about $221 million and Brown University accepted a $50 million penalty to regain access to frozen grants, while negotiations with Harvard and several other institutions continue.