Last Friday (Jan. 9), President Barack Obama introduced an ambitious higher education proposal called America’s College Promise, a plan that would make the first two years of community college tuition-free for qualified students nationwide. 

Debra Bragg, director of the Office of Community College Research and Leadership and a Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the College of Education at Illinois spoke with News Bureau education editor Sharita Forrest about Obama’s proposed program.

Read the interview here.