Eight student body presidents from Colorado college campuses expressed their fears and hopes to Sen. John Hickenlooper as they prepare for potentially big changes from the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
“I know there’s a lot of unrest and uncertainty and fear on campuses for a whole bunch of different reasons,” Hickenlooper told the students on a Zoom call. He said it would take a lot of work to defend funding for many of the concerns students raised.
Hickenlooper said he doesn’t think the Department of Education, which oversees student loans and many grants that serve colleges, will be eliminated as Trump has repeatedly promised to do.
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