U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings presented her plans to improve access to higher education during a live webcast Sept. 26, 2006 (the cast is now archived for full viewing). Over the past year, Secretary Spellings’ Commission on the Future of Higher Education has developed strategies for making the U.S. higher education system more accessible and affordable to the diverse U.S. population.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Around the Web blog.