One of our grantees at Northwestern University is traveling to Washington to question two top Obama aides during a live webcast tomorrow morning.

Online magazine North by Northwestern (NBN) beat out student publications from across the country in a Huffington Post competition to come up with the best question for Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes.

Dozens of questions were submitted in the initial round of the contest. HuffPo then selected the 13 best – four of which were from student media groups we sponsor – and encouraged the public to vote on the best one. Nearly 150,000 votes later, a question from North by Northwestern – about increasing minority enrollment in higher education – was crowned the winner.

North by Northwestern’s editor, Amanda Litman, will be traveling to Washington to join the webcast with Duncan and Barnes. She’ll ask her publication’s winning question – “How does the White House plan to encourage minority students in high school to pursue higher education?” – as well as a few of the other student submissions.

Major props to North by Northwestern for its victory — and also to the TCNJ Perspective for the questions it submitted to the competition.

View the winning question:

View the three runner-up questions from our network:

(Cross-posted at CampusProgress.org)