"Go almost anywhere in the multiple medical centers of slogan-obsessed UCLA, and you'll see signs reading "It Begins With U" and "Innovating Patient Care since 1926," bromides urging every employee from nurses to heart surgeons toward ever-better performance and ratings. So far, the slogans have helped place UCLA's medical centers first among Western hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report ratings, topping even famed institutions like Stanford University's hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and UCLA's sister medical centers in San Francisco, Sacramento and Irvine."
"UCLA also placed first in a far less desirable category, though: It was the university that President Donald Trump sought to threaten the most with fines and cuts to federal research, going after a total of $1.7 billion. That was in keeping with Trump's practice of attacking prominent targets and rarely secondary ones. Also in keeping with the Trump approach was compromise and then restoration of most of the research money Trump threatened. The $1.7 billion represented nearly all annual federal research money that UCLA gets, sixth most in the country behind places like UC San Francisco, the University of Michigan and Johns Hopkins University, schools which had far less antisemitic activity during the 2023-24 school year."
"By contrast, UCLA sprouted anti-Israeli encampments like mushrooms. So in many ways, UCLA was the largest target Trump could find, and his psychology suggests that's why he singled it out. Fully $500 million of the federal research money was to be taken from UCLA's medical facilities and research before a judge the other day stopped the process at least temporarily on grounds the demands were made via form letters not listing any transgressions by researchers. The other $1.2 billion is a "fine" for allowing antisemitic camps and other anti-Jewish activities on the campus for weeks. Totally ignored were petitions signed by hundreds of"
UCLA's medical centers use pervasive slogans promoting continuous improvement and rank first among Western hospitals in U.S. News & World Report ratings. The university faced a threatened federal action seeking $1.7 billion in cuts and fines tied to antisemitic campus encampments and other anti-Jewish activity. A judge temporarily halted $500 million targeted from medical facilities and research because demands used form letters that did not list researcher transgressions. The remaining $1.2 billion was labelled a "fine" for allowing the encampments. The threatened action contrasted with other top research universities that experienced far less antisemitic activity in 2023-24.
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