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President Barack Obama attended Occidental for two years prior to transferring to Columbia University. In 2015, "birthers" falsely claimed that Obama's Occidental College transcript revealed he received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia after the resurgence of a fake news story from 2009. [35]
It falsely claimed that Obama applied to Occidental College under the name "Barry Soetoro" claiming to be "a foreign student from Indonesia" in order to obtain a Fulbright scholarship (which does not exist for undergraduate students from Indonesia). [111]
Occidental College, where Obama began his undergraduate studies, will no longer ask applicants about alumni relationships as part of the The post President Obama’s first college ends legacy ...
Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest.Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set the presidents apart from the general population, and presidents have held degrees even though it was quite rare and unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
Mike Groll/AP If Obama's long-term plan to transform higher education in America ultimately passes Congress, it may fundamentally change the relationship between universities and the federal ...
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Seth Perlman/AP The student debt crisis is still looming, and President Obama has drawn a line in the sand. Sort of. For years, the president has drawn attention to student debt, often referencing ...
America's College Promise was a proposal by the Barack Obama administration to offer all students two free years of community college tuition. [1] [2] [3] It was based on the Tennessee Promise, a similar program for the state of Tennessee. State level programs, like the Tennessee Promise, have faced critique for their ability to fill tangible ...