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What Next | Who’s Winning the War on Higher Education?

What Next | Who’s Winning the War on Higher Education?

Update: 2025-09-16
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Conservatives have decried higher education as a center of liberal indoctrination for decades, and under the second Trump administration, colleges and universities are watching their federal funding be withheld or frozen, their presidents step down, and professors lose their jobs.


What can be done to wrest back academic freedom and independence from a vindictive administration?


Guest:  Sarah Brown, senior editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.

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What Next | Who’s Winning the War on Higher Education?

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