Call to Action - College Opportunities

Remarks at The College Opportunities Summit

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the College Opportunities Summit, as Troy Simon and First Lady Michelle Obama listen, on January 16, 2014 in the EEOB.

Valerie Jarrett

Valerie Jarrett, White House Senior Advisor to the President Obama, delivers remarks at the College Opportunities Summit on January 16, 2014

Governor of Delaware, Jack Markell

Governor of Delaware, Jack Markell delivers remarks at the College Opportunities Summit on January 16, 2014

Debbie Bial, Julián Castro, Bridget Terry Long

Debbie Bial, President and Founder, Posse, Julián Castro, Mayor San Antonio, and Bridge Terry Long of Harvard School of Education make up the panel for the College Opportunities Summit, on January 16, 2014

The Panel

Julián Castro, Mayor of San Antonio; and Bridget Terry Long, Academic Dean and Xander Professor of Harvard Graduate School of Education on the College Opportunities Summit on January 16, 2014

Troy Simon

Troy Simon a student at Bard College tells how he was awarded opportunities to attend college. Later he introduced Michelle Obama at the College Opportunities Summit in the EEOB, on January 16, 2014

First Lady Michelle Obama

First Lady Michelle Obama delivers remarks at the College Opportunities Summit in the EEOB on January 16, 2014

Remarks

Remarks by President Barack Obama on Expanding College Opportunities on January 16, 2014

Cecilia Muñoz

Cecilia Muñoz, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council on January 16, 2016

Gene Sperling

Gene Sperling, Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, moderates the panel discussion: Advising, ACT/SAT Prep and Increasing the Pool, on January 16, 2014

The Agenda for today's events

The agenda for the College Opportunities Summit on January 16, 2014

Beverly Daniel Tatum

Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Spelman College at the College Opportunities Summit on January 16, 2014