What Trump really wants from colleges

特朗普真正从大学期望得到什么

Today, Explained

2025-08-13

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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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  • Let me take you back to June of 2023.

  • 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.

  • The Supreme Court today struck down race-conscious admissions policies,

  • often called affirmative action, at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.

  • For too long,

  • many universities have wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested,

  • skills built, or lessons learned.

  • but the color of their skin.

  • Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.

  • When colleges and universities were told to stop factoring race into admissions,

  • many of them started asking applicants to instead describe obstacles that they'd overcome.

  • The Trump administration thinks this is a sneaky way of getting around the Supreme Court's ruling and says it's going to require colleges to start submitting data proving that they are not breaking the rules.

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