Obama Reaffirms Support for Community Colleges at Signing of Student-Loan Bill

“President Obama signed legislation on Tuesday that ends the bank-based lending system for student loans and pours tens of billions of federal dollars into higher education. At the signing ceremony, which was held here at Northern Virginia Community College, the president also announced that Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and an English instructor at the college, will lead a community-college summit at the White House this fall …” (more)

[Andrea Fuller, Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 March]

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