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flag NPR editor Steve Drummond leads education and race coverage amid rising college foreign funding and student loan enforcement.

flag Steve Drummond, a senior NPR editor with over 20 years of experience, leads NPR Ed and Code Switch, covering education and race/identity. flag He has won multiple Peabody, duPont, and Kennedy Awards for investigative reporting on Native American rights, the justice system, and foster care. flag A former teacher and University of Michigan graduate, Drummond also served as a Princeton journalism professor. flag In 2025, NPR’s College Podcast Challenge received nearly 2,000 student entries, while federal data revealed U.S. colleges received over $5 billion in foreign gifts and contracts. flag The Trump administration resumed student loan collections for defaulters and threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status over federal funding disputes.

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