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The Presidential Treatment
The Obama Administration makes big advances,
faces tough challenges, in higher education policy
By Jon Marcus
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YOU’LL HAVE TO forgive them if the community college students, faculty and presidents looked star struck, squinting in the glare of the bright lights of the television news crews as Marine guards crisply showed them to their seats.
Dressed in their best, these 122 hand-picked representatives of higher education’s most maligned, least influential sector were, after all, being ushered to the White House East Room, guests of the wife of the vice president of the United States, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, three cabinet secretaries, one congressman, the billionaire who co-chairs the nation’s wealthiest foundation—and the leader of the free world.
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