College Uncovered: What Comes Next on Campus?

The Hechinger Report

by Hechinger Report and GBH News

November 25, 2024

Throughout the election campaign, Donald Trump railed against colleges and universities for being too expensive, too partisan and too woke. “Colleges have gotten hundreds of billions of dollars from hardworking taxpayers, and now we are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all,” Trump said.

With Trump returning to the White House, how much of his higher education message is rhetoric and how much will be policy? And what comes next for students and colleges?

As they wrap up this election year season of College Uncovered, Kirk and Jon explore how college may change under a new Trump administration, cutting through the noise to ask a simple question: What comes next on campus?

To get a preview, we hear from Michael Brickman, who worked as a senior advisor in the Education Department during Trump’s first term, and Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, the nation’s biggest association of colleges and universities.

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