WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama will urge this year’s graduates at Rutgers University to pursue positive change in the world despite a cascade of challenges from student loan debt to overseas turmoil.
Obama’s visit to the New Jersey campus on Sunday falls on the 250th anniversary of the public university. University leaders have been lobbying the president to deliver a commencement speech for years, even turning to the state’s members of Congress to dial up the pressure.
The White House has praised Rutgers as a “remarkable institution of higher learning.”
White House spokesman Josh Earnest says Obama will offer advice about how to approach the rapidly changing world.