UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski joined President Barack Obama, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and a select group of higher education leaders at the White House today for a discussion on college affordability and productivity. The engagement of college leaders in a frank policy discussion today took President Obama’s college-completion push to a new level. You can read the White House announcement here. And here’s what the news media is saying: “President Gathers College Leaders to Discuss Access and Affordability,” The New York Times “Obama meets with star presidents to talk reform,” The Washington Post “Hrabowski and Kirwan meet with Obama …