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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]
Following high school, Obama moved to Los Angeles in 1979, where he studied at Occidental College for two years. [50] On February 18, 1981, he made his first public speech, calling for Occidental's divestment from South Africa. [ 50 ]
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 ...
Here follows a list of notable people associated with Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university. This list includes alumni, attendees, faculty, and presidents of the university.
In 1981, students at Occidental College in Los Angeles held a rally against South Africa’s brutal apartheid policy of racial segregation. The first speaker was a 19-year-old sophomore named ...
Upon graduating from high school, Obama moved to the contiguous United States for studies at Occidental College. He describes having lived a "party" lifestyle of drug and alcohol use. [8] [9] [10] After two years at Occidental, Obama transferred to Columbia College at Columbia University, where he majored in Political Science. [10]
Occidental College names as its president Tom Stritikus, a champion of liberal arts education, diversity and inclusion who led a Colorado public college.
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.