President Barack Obama announced a plan during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College on Friday, January 9 to provide free community college to students across the country.
Students would be required to maintain at least part-time enrollment and a 2.5 GPA in order to receive these benefits.
The president said during his speech that the plan would be presented to Congress next month.
“We made high school the norm and sent a generation to college on the G.I. Bill,” Obama said on Friday. “We invested in one of our crown jewels in this country and that’s higher education.”
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama announced a plan on Friday, January 9 during a speech at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. “America’s College Promise” will provide free community college education across the country if approved by Congress. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama visited Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on Friday to announce a plan for free community colleges. “America’s College Promise” will be sent to Congress next month, Obama said. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, January 9 at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. President Obama announced plans for “America’s College Promise” to provide free community college across the country. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
President Barack Obama greeted students and faculty at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville prior to his January 9 speech on education. President Obama announced a plan to provide free community college for students across the country, modeled after “Tennessee Promise.” (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on the benefits of affordable community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on the benefits of affordable community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on the benefits of affordable community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on the benefits of affordable community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on the benefits of affordable community college education. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden and wife, Dr. Jill Biden, spoke on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on community college education. President Obama announced a plan on Friday to provide free community college education, called “America’s College Promise.” (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden kisses his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, before their discussion of community college education on Friday at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Dr. Jill Biden spoke to faculty and students at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville on Friday. Biden is an English professor at a Washington D.C. community college. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Vice President Joe Biden spoke to students and faculty at Pellissippi State Community College on Friday, January 6 about community college education as “the best kept secret in America.” (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam spoke on Friday, January 9 at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. Haslam spoke on “Tennessee Promise,” an initiative to provide free community college to Tennesseans. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam spoke on Friday, January 9 at Pellissippi State Community College in Knoxville. Haslam spoke on “Tennessee Promise,” an initiative to provide free community college to Tennesseans. (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
Pellissippi State Community College President Anthony Wise opened events on Friday, January 9 when President Barack Obama announced his “America’s College Promise.” (Greg French/MTSU Sidelines)
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