The University of California reversed an earlier decision to end its $85,000-per-fellow hiring incentive for hires from the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. UC President James Milliken announced the reversal after system chancellors and faculty leaders raised concerns about the potential damage to faculty hiring amid financial uncertainty and federal funding volatility. Milliken said the program will continue “barring extraordinary financial setbacks,” while acknowledging possible future structural changes such as caps or reallocation across campuses. Faculty advocates and junior scholars had warned that ending the incentive would worsen recruitment of diverse early-career researchers and impair the pipeline into tenure-track positions. Campus HR and faculty affairs offices should prepare for continued use of the incentive but expect possible policy tweaks; research-intensive campuses in particular see these incentives as critical to sustaining early-career hiring during a period of federal grant uncertainty.