ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The community college campus where Dr. Jill Biden teaches is just nine miles southwest of the White House.

But it is one of the very few places in the Washington DC area where the rapidly unraveling crisis surrounding President Biden’s re-election is not one of the hot topics – more than 15 students interviewed by The Post this week had not heard of it.

Some students who know “Dr. B,” as she is called by many at the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) campus, did not even realize she is the First Lady – and married to the president.

Most staffers and administrators The Post spoke to declined comment, saying they had been told by NOVA brass not to talk to reporters. Only one staffer, who did not give his name, spoke out about Jill, who has taught English at the college since 2009.

“You know she swans in here with her entourage a couple of times a week and makes everyone call her ‘Doctor,’ he said, referring to the secret service agents who accompany her.

“I don’t know her personally but it’s a little bit of a joke. Most teachers here don’t insist on being called Dr.”

First Lady Jill Biden has famously been “Dr.” Jill Biden since 2007, when she was awarded her doctorate in education, or Ed.D., from the University of Delaware.

Her dissertation was on community colleges, titled “Student retention at the community college: meeting students’ needs.”

“I stay out of politics and I don’t watch the news,” a 20-year-old Afghani student who was almost fully veiled told The Post as she walked down one of the paved walkways to the campus store. “I know Dr. B. I almost took her class.”

Others who do know Jill Biden is also FLOTUS did not know there was a controversy over her 81-year-old husband’s cognitive abilities and whether or not he would be capable of governing for the next four years, after his disastrous debate against Donald Trump last week.

“What, he might have dementia?” said one of two young, American-born male students leaving campus for the day when approached by a Post reporter and asked about the controversy over the president. “I feel so bad for him. Is that really true? That’s so sad. I heard about the debate, but not this.”

Two American-born students playing ping-pong outside the student center, just across from the building housing Jill Biden’s classroom, said they were first-year students but did not know the first lady taught at the school.

Only one student, Chris Bladen, agreed his name could be used and he said he didn’t want to say anything bad about Jill Biden or her husband “because I might be the biggest Trump-hater in the world. I just wish we had better candidates.”

In fairness, as Jill Biden herself indicated to Vogue this month, a number of the students at NOVA’s Alexandria campus are recent immigrants and can’t necessarily be expected to know the nuances of American politics. Others, she said, are older women looking to re-enter the workforce.

“Whatever I give them,” she told Vogue, “it has to be short. Because they leave my class and go straight to work, many of them. They may work until eight o’clock, then they have to do my homework, and they might have kids, too, or parents to take care of.”

She also told Vogue she often assigns “articles” rather than books because books are expensive – but said she does like to assign students Trevor Noah’s 2019 memoir, “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.”

NOVA accepts 100 percent of its applicants and some of the 14,000 in attendance at the Alexandria campus are Afghani immigrants.

Alexandria, which is a sanctuary city, has just one public high school with many Afghan refugees, a number of whom come to NOVA.

A spokesperson for NOVA didn’t provide a comment to The Post by press time, while a representative for Jill Biden didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Dr. Biden, who taught as recently as May but does not appear to be on the summer teaching schedule, received a grade of 4.5 out of a possible 5 score on the “Rate my professors” site.

Many reviewers praise her, a few say she is not that organized — but the majority of them agree she is a tough grader.

“Am I allowed to say something mean?” asked one US-born student who did not want to give his name but said he had taken one class with her. “Because she’s kind of mean. I had one class with her. I didn’t really like her. It was impossible to please her.”

Prior to coming to NOVA, Jill Biden spent 15 years as a professor at Delaware Technical Community College and before that she was a high school teacher.

Jill Biden got considerable flack after her husband was elected president in Nov. 2020 for insisting on the “Dr.” title. Interestingly, her first Vogue cover, in June 2021, included the title on the cover. This month’s cover story did not.

“You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician,” Kyle Smith wrote in the National Review in Dec. 2020.

“Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.”

In a 2021 Washington Post profile of Jill Biden, the educator included glowing reviews by some of her former students.

“She never really addressed the whole thing about being Jill Biden,” said Juliette Rosso, who had Biden as an English professor in 2017. “She was genuine, and she was humble.”

Mikaela Stack told the paper about Biden: “She cares deeply. She’s incredibly engaging and challenging and kind.”

UPDATE: VBFD confirmed earlier Wednesday evening that they were investigating reports of a prop plane making an emergency landing in a field near Indian River Road and Indian Plantation Drive in Virginia Beach, but after surveying the scene, found no evidence of a plane landing or crash.

ORIGINAL STORY: A small propeller plane made an emergency landing in a field near Indian River Road and Indian Plantation Drive in Virginia Beach on Wednesday night, according to the city’s fire department.

It happened near the Pungo area in the city.

Our News 3 crew saw helicopters circling the area.

WATCH: Woman witnesses plane’s emergency landing in Virginia Beach

Woman witnesses plane’s emergency landing in Virginia Beach

We spoke with a witness who described how she saw the plane coming down around 5 p.m.

“I saw black smoke coming out of [the plane]. I was like, ‘that doesn’t look good,’” she said.

It’s unknown how many people were in the plane. We’re also working to learn the cause behind the emergency landing.

Virginia Beach fire officials say crews are responding to the incident.

After an extensive search, unit’s did not locate any plane and cleared site. Someone reported seeing the crop duster go down below the tree the line, but did not see any crash, according to the Virginia Beach Fire Department.

A parasitic ‘vampire fish’ has been spotted in a Virginia river that is rarely seen by humans and while it is invasive, experts said it’s a good sign. 

An Alexandria local pulled what is called a sea lamprey from the Potomac River with his bare hands and tossed the nearly two-foot-long eel-like creature onto dry land.

The fish gets the nickname for its sucker-like mouth and pointed teeth, which it uses to latch onto its victim and feed on their bodily fluids –  sometimes feasting for weeks.

The Potomac River has been long polluted and government agencies have taken steps to clean it up, making the lamprey’s appearance a sign that the pollution is finally ebbing away because the creature is sensitive to toxins .

Sea lampreys are an invasive species initially native to the Atlantic Ocean, but they invaded the Great Lakes in the 1800s through manmade canals and shipping docks. 

The population started growing in the Potomac in 2002, which experts believed was a positive sign for the river.

‘The resurgence of sea lamprey is another indication that water quality is getting better,’ Jim Cummins, the then-associate director for the Living Resources Section told the Potomac Bay Reporter at the time. 

‘Sea lamprey are fairly sensitive to pollution.’

The 23-year-old man posted an Instagram video of him catching the vampire fish, claiming it was ‘the first sea lamprey caught in the Potomac River.’

The fish migrate from the Chesapeake Bay to the freshwater river each year to lay their eggs, which suggests this is not the first sighting.

However, he appeared shocked, repeatedly saying: ‘Oh my gosh’ as the person recording dares him to put the lamprey on his arm.

‘I’m not doing that,’ he said, but called his catch ‘insane.’

People responded to the video, saying that because it’s an invasive species and should be removed.

‘They eat other fish and infect them with parasites with a bite so, they’ll eventually die. They are invasive. Check what damage they did in Michigan and what they had to do to fix it,’ one person commented.

A single female can produce as many as 100,000 eggs and as the population rose in the Great Lakes during the 1940s and 1950s, they nearly decimated the lake trout and whitefish, prompting efforts to eliminate them. 

Another person simply said: ‘Kill it.’ 

The river was given a ‘B’ grade last year for its cleanliness, up from the ‘D’ ranking it received in 2011.

Studies are being conducted to determine if the river will be clean enough to lift the ban on swimming in the next two to three years, according to the Potomac Conservancy.

While social media called for the sea lamprey to be killed, its presence in the  is not harmful to the ecosystem.

The Chesapeake Bay Program said after the lamprey reaches maturity at four to five years, they leave the freshwater rivers to live out the rest of their life in the ocean.

The fish gets the nickname for its sucker-like mouth and pointed teeth, which it uses to latch onto its victim and feed on their bodily fluids – sometimes feasting for weeks

The lamprey has the appearance of an eel, with a long body measuring between 12 and 22 inches long and brown and yellow skin that is covered in dark spots. It has a sucker-like mouth and pointed teeth to grasp onto its victim and feed on their body fluids, sometimes for as long as three weeks until the fish dies.

Lampreys have existed for millions of years, but they have become threatened by habitat loss and chemical treatments called lampricide which kill lamprey larvae and has reduced their population by more than 90 percent. 

They have the appearance of an eel, with a long body measuring between 12 and 22 inches long and brown and yellow skin that is covered in dark spots.

These fish can accidentally latch on to humans who are swimming in the water, and while the bite won’t be fatal, it is painful and untreated wounds could cause an infection.

Sea lamprey are native to the area and have existed in the Potomac for years, but they don’t typically take fishermen’s bait and the polluted water has previously hidden them from view. 

The fish is believed to have once been plentiful in the Chesapeake Bay, which flows into the Potomac, but the population was reduced in part because of increased sediment, pollution, and blockage of spawning areas by dams. 

Since 1989, the Alice Ferguson Foundation has spearheaded the Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup and the DC Water Clean Rivers Program has invested $2.6 billion to reduce pollution.