What Trump really wants from colleges

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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It’s not just about the money. This episode was produced by Gabrielle Berbey, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Noel King. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Harvard students rally in favor of affirmative action. Photo by Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me take you back to June of 2023.
0:04.3	Good morning. We're coming on the air because the Supreme Court has just released a major decision concerning one of the most defining cases brought before the justices this term.
0:12.8	The Supreme Court today struck down race-conscious admissions policies, often called affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
0:19.9	For too long, many universities have wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested,
0:26.6	skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin.
0:30.6	Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.
0:34.6	When colleges and universities were told to stop factoring race into admissions, many of them
0:40.5	started asking applicants to instead describe obstacles that they'd overcome. The Trump administration
0:46.3	thinks this is a sneaky way of getting around the Supreme Court's ruling and says it's going to
0:50.5	require colleges to start submitting data, proving that they are not breaking
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