\u201cThe Department will vigorously investigate this matter to ensure that a recipient of federal funding is not allowing its students to be at risk,\u201d U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a release.<\/p>\n
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The university will cooperate with the government review, said Dan Mogulof, a Berkeley assistant vice chancellor, in an email.<\/p>\n
\u201cUC Berkeley has an unwavering commitment to abide by the laws, rules and policies that are applicable to the university,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The review relates to a protest at a campus event hosted by Turning Point USA, the conservative group founded by Charlie Kirk, an ally of President Donald Trump. Kirk was assassinated<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n The Education Department said its review of UC Berkeley will \u201cassess ongoing compliance issues as well as the November 10, 2025, incident\u201d and requested a list of material that the university must produce within 30 days, including copies of daily crime logs and local police department call logs dating back to 2022.<\/p>\n The U.S. Department of Justice previously announced it was investigating UC Berkeley over the Turning Point USA protest.<\/p>\n Mogulof said the campus provided public reports about a fistfight over an attempted robbery and someone being hit by a thrown object on the evening of the Turning Point event. The administration \u201cwent to great lengths to support the First Amendment rights of all by deploying a large number of police officers from multiple jurisdictions, and a large number of contracted private security personnel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Since Trump took office in January, the White House has targeted what it deems liberal-leaning institutions and tried to withhold funding from colleges and universities over issues such as pro-Palestinian protests, transgender policies, climate initiatives and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.<\/p>\n The Trump administration has also canceled federal contracts worth millions of dollars with numerous schools to pressure them to change their admissions and hiring policies, among other issues. Courts have ordered many of the federal cuts be restored.<\/p>\n The public University of California has been one of the administration\u2019s most frequent higher education targets.<\/p>\n In June, the Justice Department said it will investigate hiring practices at the state university to examine whether its efforts to boost faculty diversity violate anti-discrimination laws.<\/p>\n UC Berkeley and other California schools were included in a March 10 list of 60 universities and colleges under investigation by the Education Department for antisemitism.<\/p>\n Reporting by Helen Coster in New York; editing by Donna Bryson and Rod Nickel<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a> Helen Coster is a National Affairs Correspondent at Reuters, where she writes a mix of spot news, enterprise and analysis stories, with a focus on politics and media. 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