I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story where we go beyond the news of the day to bring you one big story.

Today, we're looking at higher education.

This is something the president has been focusing on, too.

We spend more money on higher education than any other country, and yet they're turning our students into communists and terrorists and sympathizers of many,

many different dimensions.

President Trump's complained a lot about biased teaching agendas at some universities.

He's criticized the teaching of critical race theory and what he calls gender ideology.

And he's argued that colleges push anti-American views.

He's also complained about the treatment of Jewish students on some campuses.

Here's Trump at an event in Las Vegas in 2024.

Colleges will and must end the anti-Semitic propaganda or they will lose their accreditation and federal support.

No money will go to them if they don't.

And the threat to choke off money has quickly turned real.

Since January, the Trump administration has withheld billions of dollars in research funding to colleges and universities across the country.

The administration has also focused its attention on international students, clamping down on student visas and in some cases suspending entry as another way to strike at university

enrollment and revenue.

It's left university leaders scrambling to plan for the future.

NPR correspondent Elisa Nadwerni has been following the impact of these changes on American

campuses and beyond.

Today on the Sunday story, we'll talk about what she's been seeing and hearing. Stay with us. Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of

Wildcard from NPR. For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous.

That pause before an answer because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic.

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