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Hi, this is Daniel Brett Howard from Berkeley, California,

where I am a graduate student in the astronomy department at UC Berkeley.

I am just about to submit a year's worth of research on simulating Kilova

to a journal for peer review.

This podcast was recorded at

107 p.m. on Monday, October 27, 2025. Things may have changed by the time you hear this,

just like how my work will have changed and improved, thanks to the peer review process of other

scientists reading and critiquing my work. Okay, enjoy the show. I don't know why that one got me. I was just not expecting that to go that way. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Myles Parks. I cover voting. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And NPR education correspondent, Alyssa NADwernie, is also here with us. Hi, Alyssa. Hello. It's great to have you here. Thank you. And NPR education correspondent, Alyssa, Alyssa, Alyssa, it's great to

have you here. Thank you. And today on the show, we are talking about higher education. The Trump

administration has been trying to push schools toward the president's priorities most recently with a so-called

compact that the administration has asked some university leaders to sign. And Alyssa, I'm hoping we just back up for a second because Trump and many Republicans have had a lot of issues over the years with universities, specifically accusing them of all different manners of liberal bias. What are their specific goals when it comes to changing colleges?

Well, I guess I would say that there are kind of five priorities that they have cited over the last, say, eight months.

The first is getting race out of admissions. So this follows the Supreme Court decision in 2023 to essentially ban affirmative action.

Then there is DEI initiatives, diversity, equity, and inclusion. This kind of like

falls in that race bucket. Antisemitism on campus, alleged anti-Semitism and confirmed anti-Semitism.

International students. There's been a number of executive orders to basically curb the influence

of foreign governments through kind of students coming into the U.S.

and studying here.

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