Obama visits U-M, calls for education reforms

Date: February 15, 2012
Written By: Jared Wadley

The visit was Obama’s second to U-M. He delivered the spring, 2010 commencement address. (Photo: Jared Wadley, U-M News Service.)

Nearly two years after giving the spring 2010 commencement address, President Barack Obama returned to the University of Michigan for the second time during his administration. He delivered his remarks Friday, Jan. 27 to thousands of students, elected officials and guests at Al Glick Field House. He discussed education goals and college costs as the White House pushes education and training proposals.

For more coverage of Obama’s visit, including photos and video, visit the University Record online.

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Glenn Marshall - 1955

Interesting timing, as I heard what follows on the radio, right after receiving this U of M news:
The founder of StudentLoanJustice.Org, Alan Collinge, talked about a report that student loans are draining parents\’ retirement accounts, and how the lifetime default rate on the loans is greater than 1 in 3. He argued that student loans should have standard bankruptcy protection, and this would actually help keep tuition inflation down. When asked about a hypothetical situation; if there were no Federal Loans, what would happen?Â His opinion is that without the Feds, about 40% of the colleges would close (especially the for profit schools), and that the cost of a college education would drop about 30-40%

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