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Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vand-roll, Oolagos.

Love the government, hug the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy. I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski. I'm joined today by University of Northern Iowa political

scientist, Justin Holmes. Hi there. Hey, Justin. So, as always, there's a bunch of stuff that we

didn't have time for on our weekend show, but we are ready to get to it now. And I thought

we would start with, well, a bunch of education things.

Maybe starting with our wheelhouse, which of course is higher ed. And then we can kind of move on

from there for K through 12. And so maybe you can get us going with the higher ed activities over

the last week or so. Yeah. So, you know, this higher ed thing is, has been a lot of

Trump focus. And I know you guys talked about it some last week with the Harvard situation.

But, you know, there is some, some several EOs this week, one of which I think is particularly

important and particularly troubling, dealing with higher I think is particularly important, particularly troubling,

dealing with higher ed in general. So, you know, we've got kind of a number of things going on

with Trump and higher ed. You know, I mean, he comes in right away with grant funding and things

and then sets the sites on a couple of specific universities.

But several of the EOs this week, I think, are much further reaching.

So the one that I think I'll start with is accreditation, which I think is probably sounds to outsiders tremendously boring, but I think is the most consequential.

Having just been through accreditation, it is tremendously boring, but also tremendously consequential.

But then also, an EO about historically black colleges and universities and one on foreign influence.

And those two, I feel like, are somewhat less consequential and maybe a little bit,

to be honest, there's not so much there there, but this accreditation thing is pretty big. So

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