Yesterday, U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) announced that she will chair the higher education subcommittee.

Representative Foxx stated she was “excited to roll up my sleeves and work toward making our higher-education system even better while carefully stewarding taxpayer dollars.”

Representative Foxx also shared that she does not have an agenda yet but suggested she would not shield higher education prograrms from spending cuts and raised doubts regarding the need for community colleges to produce 5 million more graduates with degrees or certificates by 2020.

Representative Foxx was elected to Congress in 2004 after spending 10 years in the North Carolina Senate and several years as a professor and administrator at several North Carolina colleges. She also served as president of Mayland Community College in 1987.  She joined the education committee in Congress in 2005 and left in 2008 to serve on the rules committee.