The Trump Administration Takes On Higher Ed
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.5 • 24.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, education reporter Sequoia Carrillo, and senior political editor and correspondent Domenico Montanaro.
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| 0:39.3 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:41.5 | Hi, this is Val from Denver, Colorado, and I'm heading home from an event at the Denver Botanic Gardens, where local artists are scattered through the blooming flowers and play into the evening. |
| 0:53.8 | This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:55.5 | 107 p.m. on Thursday, July 31st, 2025. |
| 1:00.1 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, |
| 1:02.6 | but I will still be dreaming about the perfect garden. |
| 1:06.3 | Enjoy the show. |
| 1:10.4 | Not too shabby. It's very pleasant. Denver's a really great city. Yeah, a lot of cool stuff there. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Tepa Shiverum. I cover the White House. And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. And joining us on the show today is NPR education reporter, Sequoia Carrillo. Welcome back to the podcast, Sequoia. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:28.9 | All right. So today on the show, we're getting into the Trump administration's fight with the nation's top universities. |
| 1:34.1 | In the last couple of weeks, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, and Duke universities, among others, have all been in the news over these conflicts. |
| 1:42.3 | So, Sequoia, what is at the center of these conflicts? |
| 1:46.1 | So at the center of many of these disputes, though not all, is the alleged mistreatment of Jewish |
| 1:53.2 | students at these elite colleges and the Trump administration withholding funds or freezing |
| 1:59.3 | funds in response to that treatment. In many cases, |
| 2:04.1 | the Trump administration is saying that these schools failed to foster a safe environment for Jewish |
| 2:09.3 | students during the protests over the war in Gaza. So you'll see a lot of the dispute citing |
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