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Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Ed, talk about controversy surrounding City University of New York board of trustee's decision not to award an honorary degree to playwright Tony Kushner.

Scott Jaschik, editor of Inside Higher Ed, discusses how going to college in the U.S. just got harder for foreign students, especially for those from Iran. Plus, Jamal Abdi, policy director of the National Iranian American Council, discusses how the suspension of the TOEFL test in Iran will affect Iranian students who want to study in the U.S.

Scott Jaschik, the editor of Inside Higher Ed, and Robert McCaughey, professor of history at Barnard College and a former naval officer, talk about the history of ROTC programs on college campuses--and the status of ROTC at Columbia University.