Former First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage at UCLA to urge students to reach higher by going to college, getting career training or joining the military. It was the first time she celebrated her initiative, College Signing Day, on the West Coast.
Former First Lady Michelle Obama greets the crowd at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus on Wednesday.
Wearing a Compton College T-shirt to point out the importance of community colleges, she congratulated the 10,000 students in attendance for overcoming myriad hurdles. She warned that other people would try to bring them down, as her high school counselor had tried to do. Reach Higher selected UCLA for the main event, in part, because the campus is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, Waldo said. On Wednesday, nearly 50 celebrities took the stage to talk up college, including John Legend, Usher, Pentatonix and Bebe Rexha. LaLa Anthony and Lil Rel Howery served as emcees.
“I feel as if all the hard work that I put toward my academics and activities is finally paying off,” Perez said. “A college education is not only a benefit to the individual, it’s also a benefit to society,” she said. Ultimately, though, Obama held her own, graduated cum laude in sociology and went on to Harvard Law School.
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