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In the world of higher education, what’s supposed to be the season of rest has turned out to be a period of absolute chaos. This summer, as undergrads scattered to pursue jobs and internships, universities across the country underwent an unprecedented amount of changes, from Columbia’s and Brown’s settlements with President Donald Trump to the shutting down of countless programs at schools like Indiana University and UConn .

The Trump administration’s most recent target has been the University of California, Los Angeles, the country’s No. 1 public university : It has frozen over $500 million in the school’s federal research funding and is demanding $1 bi

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