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Higher education is at the center of the biggest stories in the country today, and College Matters is here to make sense of it all. This podcast is a production of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the nation's leading independent newsroom covering colleges.The Chronicle of Higher Education Política y Gobierno
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  • Princeton President Talks Kirk, Trump, ‘Civic Crisis’

    Princeton President Talks Kirk, Trump, ‘Civic Crisis’
    Oct 1 2025
    As president of Princeton University, Christopher Eisgruber is among the highest-profile college leaders to publicly criticize the Trump administration for its attacks on higher education. He is a defender of the sector, arguing that colleges are far better at upholding free speech and more welcoming of diverse viewpoints than critics would suggest. The recent killing of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist, has energized a national debate about the state of free speech on college campuses — both for conservatives like Kirk, and for faculty who have been sanctioned for speaking ill of Kirk in the wake of his death. None of this, though, changes Eisgruber’s fundamental view that colleges, for the most part, are actually quite good at facilitating tough conversations at a particularly polarized moment. It’s an argument Eisgruber lays out methodically in a new book, Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right.Related Reading Terms of Respect: How Colleges Get Free Speech Right, by Christopher Eisgruber (Basic Books) With Charlie Kirk’s Killing, a New Chapter of the Campus Speech Wars Has Begun (The Chronicle) The Elite-University Presidents Who Despise One Another (The Atlantic) At Yale, Painful Rifts Emerge Over Diversity and Free Speech (The Chronicle)
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  • The Research Trump Hates

    The Research Trump Hates
    Sep 24 2025
    The Trump administration is hitting universities where it hurts, terminating thousands of research grants in areas it deems wasteful or ideologically driven. Many scientists who study vaccine hesitancy, gender identity, and climate change, have either lost grant money or been put on notice that their federal funding could soon disappear. What does this mean for the U.S. academic-research enterprise, which seeks to cure diseases, understand societal problems, and even save the planet? And how might a highly politicized approach to doling out federal research money change the nature of science itself? Related Reading: The Scientists Who Got Ghosted by the NIH (The Chronicle) An NIH Grant Is Restored, With a Catch: Cut a Study on Trans Youth (The Chronicle) The NIH is Requiring Grantees to Follow Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Order (The Chronicle) Their NIH Grants are Back. But Nothing is Back to Normal. (The Chronicle) Guest Stephanie M. Lee, senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication.
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  • Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’

    Chris Rufo Floats Calling in ‘Troops’
    Sep 17 2025
    Christopher F. Rufo, a conservative activist, is on what he might call a winning streak. Long before it was fashionable to do so, Rufo, a senior fellow at the right-leaning Manhattan Institute, was leading the charge against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs on college campuses. Now, many universities — by law or by choice — are ditching DEI programs as fast as they can. Beyond that, Rufo has waged numerous online pressure campaigns against college leaders, leading to the resignations or scuttled appointments of those who’ve extolled the virtues of DEI. His airing of plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University, contributed to her leadership downfall in 2024. But what is really behind Rufo’s philosophy? What would the “colorblind equality” he prescribes for colleges actually look like in practice? And how far does he think President Trump should go to upend higher education? 00:00 - 7:40: Rufo’s path to conservatism7:40 - 14:51: Politics of DEI14:51 - 19:48 : Race and admissions20:03 - 24:51: ‘Meritocracy’24:51 - 31:02: Do you think race matters?31:01 - 32:58: The Manhattan Institute32:58 - 35:25: Harvard’s Claudine Gay35:25 - 46:26: Sinking Santa Ono at U. of Florida46:26 - 50:32: Rufo’s influence / George Mason U.50:32 - 53:19: Calling in the troops Related Reading: They Have a Common Criticism of Higher Ed. And They’re Arguing. (The Chronicle) How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory (The New Yorker) An Inside Job at George Mason? (The Chronicle/ProPublica) Santa Ono Wanted a College Presidency. He Became a Pariah. (The Chronicle) Guest:Christopher F. Rufo, a senior fellow and director of the initiative on critical race theory at the Manhattan Institute For more on today’s episode, visit chronicle.com/collegematters. We aim to make transcripts available within a day of an episode’s publication
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