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Dr. Jill Biden Holds First-Ever Summit on Community Colleges  All Administration hands on board: Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis (standing) joins Dr. Jill Biden (right) and Melody Barnes, Domestic Policy Adviser and the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, at the White House Summit on Community Colleges. Photo/CD Brown. Dr. Jill Biden, a teacher for nearly three decades, has taught for 17 years at a community college.  She currently teaches at Northern Virginia Community College, and is a champion for community colleges.  "Community colleges are the way to the future", Dr. Biden explained. Seen by some as "baby colleges" by some, the first-ever White House Summit on community colleges focused on bringing together businesses and community colleges and improving partnerships between them. Dr. Biden was asked by the president last year to help promote community colleges. "For more and more people, community colleges are...

The Vice President and 2nd Lady give us a first hand view as they begin their week's tour to Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. The two landed in Egypt earlier today and met with President and Mrs. Mubarak. For more, tour here .

President Obama signed the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 expanding educational opportunity for America’s students and families. Points of the legislation include larger pell grants , more stable funding for Pell Grants , increased support for Minority Serving Institutions to include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).   These institutions are particularly hard hit. They account for nearly one-third of all degree-granting institutions and enroll nearly sixty percent of the 4.7 million minority undergraduates in our nation today. They do more with less and enroll higher proportions of low- and middle-income students. The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act provides $2.55 billion in mandatory funding for these institutions – dollars that can be used to renew, reform, and expand programming to ensure that students at these colleges and universities are given every chance to rise to their full potential. The bill also makes r...