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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Terry Tang and Amelia Thomson-Deveaux

Most AAPI adults oppose college funding cuts and student deportations, a new poll finds

AP Poll AAPI Adults Higher Education - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

As colleges and universities pull back on diversity practices, a new poll finds that young Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are overwhelmingly against cutting federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education and deporting students involved in protest activity on campus.

But opposition is lower among older groups — despite the fact that most AAPI adults, regardless of age, place a high value on a college education.

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