Berkeley faculty said it was important to call for a UC system-wide commitment to push back against the Trump administration before the campus receives its own version of the demand letters sent

The Education Department cited 2023 media reports that UC-Berkeley had not reported “hundreds of millions of dollars” in foreign government funding.

The Education Department is launching efforts to crack down on foreign financial influence in U.S. higher education, targeting Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley as a first foray.