Congress has a responsibility to strengthen and invest in institutions that are promoting economic mobility as we continue to work toward a reauthorization of key Federal higher education policy.

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) were developed as part of a political and social movement to regain Tribal autonomy and to combat centuries of forced assimilation and destruction of Native communities.

Yes. Thank you.

I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about the $380 million of HAVA funds that--I guess with the grant expenditure report, there were certainly a number of questions of whether that should have been spent more quickly.

I am going to support my colleague and my Ranking Member on the higher ed subcommittee because I think that there actually is a lot of excitement here about how we best develop programs, apprenticeship programs, that really are going to scale in this country, different from what we have today.

I think that we need to think out of the box about this.

I was really happy to hear you talk about that, because, you know, we worked hard on that trying to make people understand how important that was for quality of life.

The lasting, undeniable benefits of a college degree illustrate our responsibility, as a Nation, to ensure that students have an opportunity to enroll in and graduate from college.

It is important that we make sure that people complete because when they do that, we all win.

We must invest in higher education so that all students who begin college, no matter their race, their income, their background, or circumstance, can complete a degree that leads to a rewarding career.

When a student is admitted to an institution, it has to be a two way agreement.