Wayne State University announces commitment to expand college access at White House event

On Thursday, Wayne State University and President M. Roy Wilson joined President Obama, the First Lady, and Vice President Biden along with hundreds of college presidents and other higher education leaders to announce new actions to help more students prepare for and graduate from college. The White House College Opportunity Day of Action helps to support the President's commitment to partner with colleges and universities, business leaders, and nonprofits to support students across the country to help our nation reach its goal of leading the world in college attainment. Wayne State - one of the nation's premier public, urban research universities - supports the president's commitment in three key areas. First, the university, through its College of Education, has developed a new initiative to support high school counselors. Second, Wayne State has also joined with a consortium of community colleges and universities in metro Detroit to help meet the President's goal of developing more college graduates in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Third, with an ambitious goal of doubling the number of transfer students by the year 2020 and producing 2,500 additional degrees by the year 2025, Wayne State expects to be a major contributor to the nation's effort to expand and build networks of colleges that will promote completion. "As the first person in my extended family to be educated beyond high school, expanding college access is a deeply held personal conviction," said President Wilson. "I fully support President Obama, the First Lady and Vice President Biden's goal to make the United States the world leader in college attainment."

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