• Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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Clinton's College Years: How Wellesley and Yale Shaped a Presidential Candidate

As a college student in the 1960’s, Hillary Rodham Clinton developed a passion for social issues that continues to inform her approach to higher education.

In the second of our series of profiles of the leading presidential candidates, we explore Ms. Clinton’s transformation from Goldwater Girl to antiwar Democrat and trace her emergence as a skilled negotiator. We also examine her Senate record, focusing on her twin passions of expanding college access to nontraditional students and of making student loans more borrower-friendly.