Cardona penned a column for The Connecticut Mirror last month urging the safe reopening of schools.
The president-elect has done an aggressive pitch for making higher education more affordable, including free community college for all and free tuition for students at public colleges and universities whose families make less than $125,000. He's also promoting an income-based repayment plan for student loans and immediate forgiveness of up to $10,000 for those with student debt.
"For far too long, we've let college become inaccessible to too many Americans for reasons that have nothing to do with their aptitude or their aspirations and everything to do with cost burdens and, unfortunately, an internalized culture of low expectations," he said.
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