{"id":2666,"date":"2012-02-01T08:54:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2666"},"modified":"2012-02-01T08:54:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T13:54:21","slug":"president-obamas-speech-on-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2666","title":{"rendered":"President Obama&#8217;s Speech on Higher Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/swampland.time.com\/2012\/01\/30\/obama-wants-to-force-colleges-to-reduce-tuition-but-at-what-cost\/#disqus_thread\">spoke<\/a> about higher education at the University of Michigan last Friday, focusing on keeping higher education affordable. A full transcript of his remarks can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20120127\/NEWS15\/120127032\/Full-transcript-Obama-s-speech-today-education-Ann-Arbor\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2012\/01\/27\/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-blueprint-keeping-college-affordable-and-wi\">plan<\/a> would tie federal campus financial aid to tuition increases.\u00a0Universities\u00a0that cannot keep tuition increases down would see a reduction in their federally-funded campus-based aid programs (work study, Perkins loans, and Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants for low-income students). This type of aid accounts for about $3 billion, less than 2 percent of the $142 billion awarded to higher education annually.<\/p>\n<p>The Obama plan would also create a $1 billion higher education Race to the Top program, increase Perkins loans from $1 billion to $8 billion, and award $55 million in a &#8220;first in the world&#8221; efficiency competition. The president said that he would like colleges and universities to offer more accurate information about net cost, graduation rates, and post-graduate employment opportunities to students and their families.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes require Congressional approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama spoke about higher education at the University of Michigan last Friday, focusing on keeping higher education affordable. A full transcript of his remarks can be found here. The president&#8217;s plan would tie federal campus financial aid to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=2666\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","tag-higher-education-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2666"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2666\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}