but i have seen a tremendous change in the attitudes of my colleagues just lot in fact few years in being responsive to that kind of initiative from our students. >> thank you. very briefly, when i set up my presidential library in arkansas, the university of arkansas agreed to establish a graduate school for me that is a school of public service. and there are about 46 such institutions around the world, but ours is the only one that gives you a degree in public service. not public policy. we have half the time spent in the field doing projects. half the time. and i find that there are people there from -- we had an older student nontraditional student about 45 years old from thailand come back because he wanted to know -- he was happy to do the academic work, but he wanted to know how to get the show on the road. once he started. so i think time is on your side.

madelyn. a couple questions that i particularly like. from melissa wong. as students, and this is partly what sadeka was talking about with her father, and needing more fathers, how do we get older generations involved in our work so that we can motivate more young people? in other words, not that you and i do what we're doing, but how do we help them more? >> i really do think that cross generational partnerships are very important. i do think that in many ways, young people motivate people our age. i've just been listening to this and i'm blown away. i've got to say. one of the things you were comparing classes from before i taught at georgetown in the '80s. i was asked by the president when there was a reunion class. how did the students of the '80s

compare with the students today? i said the students in the '80s were interested in their retirement programs. and all of a sudden there was booing. and i thought, my god, i'm addressing students of the '80s. but what i find is the motivation that the young people have for what we're doing. and i think that what is useful, for instance there are many programs where older people are going abroad and working with young people in partnerships, so that some of the experiences of being older are then matched. and then i do think that there's a great opportunity for cross mentorship. it isn't always that the older people mentor the younger ones. but in terms of the enthusiasm that the younger students have. i also think, if i might speak for wellsly, which also trains young women, i think that what is very important is to look at how to do interdisciplinary training. we have a tendency to think one

discipline may be the best for operating in public service. it's across the board. you need people that understand health and understand music and understand biology and religion and work people together. and i do think that older people can have a great partnership with younger people. and i've been to your school. it's fantastic in terms of people being motivated. i also do think to have the possibility of understanding that you learn best by doing. that it is a great way to get credit for more than just sitting in the library. or really understanding the practical aspect and what i believe so fully is i believe in democracy, but democracy has to deliver. people want to be able to work and to understand what they are doing and give back. and i think the most exciting

thing about everything that you're doing and all these it young people are doing is understanding that giving back is the way to make the world work better. >> go ahead. >> i just want to add something. sometimes, well, most of the times, students when we're in student mode, so we have this plan so, okay, i'm done with my college. now the next thing is, yes, grad school. yes, i will do my phd, as well. then i have great plans to change the world. i think that would be too late if we're thinking of getting education ourselves up to ph.d. and then going out to the world and saying i'm here and i want to make a change. actually, when i graduated from mt. holyoke college, i was offered a scholarship by georgetown university. and i dared to ignore and i

dared to say no. i really wanted to go back to home because i had done fundraising. i knew my plan. and i wanted to implement. i wanted to deliver before i take more. and i did it in two years of time it worked. and then what happened? so i went home. i established the school. then i wanted to be not the sole implementer, but to make sure everything is okay and functioning the way it should. but then our government of higher education said i'm not qualified enough to do so. why? i'm not 35 years old and i don't have masters. so in a way, i had to leave the country back because they still do not offer masters degrees. now it's the open society institute based in new york and also the university of ottawa that is investigating to me to make sure i'm qualified enough to go back and work for the university.

>> that's good. let me say, i asked madeline to answer this question, but most of the people i work with, not all, but most, the vast majority are 30 years younger than i am or more. and you know, i like it. a lot. but one of the things that happens to people is just naturally most people spend time with people that are more or less than their age group. unless they're university presidents or something. and i think to give a serious answer to the question that was asked, my view is that all of you know you would like some older people because they can help you raise money or they have experience or they have time. you might try asking. i mean it may be as simple as that. there are a lot of older people who want to feel like their life

has meaning all the way to the very end. all the way to the very end. their idea of retirement may mean they don't do the job they used to do anymore, but they want to be useful. they want to keep doing something. and if you are really serious about this, you would be shocked at the number of older people who would tell you yes if you asked for help or guidance or support or involvement. because a lot of times once your hair gets gray, you think nobody wants you around anymore. it's a big deal. and i think, you know, the baby boom generation in the united states and many other countries cannot afford to be mentally or physically as rapidly declining as previous generation of seniors. otherwise because we're so large we'll really cramp your style financially and that of our grandchildren. so i think you would be doing good thing as a society as a whole by getting more older people involved in whatever your endeavor is. now we're out of time, but i

cannot resist this. first, i'll ask one more serious question and then i'll ask this unbelievable question we got. from ann jacks on twitter. first a serious question. from someone viewing the web cast. was asked of madelyn, but anybody can answer it, how can women like me who want to help women in haiti and other places across the world actually do that? in other words, i'm one person out here following this. i want to help women in haiti and other places. where should i start if you have never done it. where should she start? what's your advice? anybody? go ahead, madeline. >> well, i do think you have been doing an amazing amount of work in haiti and are able to get money and support into a variety of areas. so it's important to get with somebody that's doing something.

dr. farmer, various people who have a project. or for instance, the national democratic institute. we have been in haiti trying to figure out how to help people be able to identify their needs and work with them. i think that there are organizations that are the best way to do this. i also do think one can go there and be helpful, but the best thing i would say is to get involved with an organization that can direct because the individual can help the organization and the organization can help them. and then talking about it. you know what i think the problem is, americans are the most generous people in the world with the shortest attention span. so what we have to do, a lot of people have forgotten about haiti. it was very much in the news all the time and now people have forgotten and things are still not good there. and they need to operate through your kind of an organization. >> haiti has second only to india, the largest number of

ngos operating there per capita of any country in the world. next only to india. it's much smaller, but there are a couple thousand that operate there. and a few hundred seriously and deeply. so my recommendation is that you first of all figure out exactly what you want to do. if there's an organization you know about, go to that organization's website and see if they work a place you want. and then give them time or money. or you can go to my foundation's website and track it to haiti and see what kind of things are going on in haiti. right across the board, you can find an ngo to work with that fits what you care about. we have lists of a lot of them. you can follow it through. but it's the simplest way to start.

i'm going to ask this question. i'm going to lose a friend over this. this question is from ann jacks on twitter. usher, what inspires you to do service? singing the answer is encouraged. [ cheers and applause ] >> you guys just won't be happy until i do a concert huh? i didn't say no. truly the evidence that by applying these pillars that i

created that we have spoken about on the panel the entire night to engage youth at a very young age to support those who are in need for you to be engaged and ask or accept the help, all of those things leads me to do the work that i have been able to do. it is simply the evidence that it's a reality. the very students that i was able to meet when i first started and now in college, they have now tracked a career. they have identified a talent and are continuing to give back to the community. as we've traveled the world. i have been able to take youth as far as nairobi, kenya. [ cheers and applause ] she went actually. and actually be able to go all over the world and make a difference by identifying the

similarities between the issues that are in our communities. not isolated by the differences. so that is the thing that motivates me. now you want me to sing it. here we go. you guys can probably help me with this one. ♪ i believe the children are our future ♪ ♪ teach them well and let them lead the way ♪ ♪ show them all the beauty they possess inside ♪ ♪ give them a sense of pride ♪ to make it easier ♪ let the children's laughter ♪ remind us how we used to be ♪ everybody's searching for a hero ♪ ♪ people need someone to look up to ♪ ♪ i never found anyone to

fulfill my needs ♪ ♪ a lonely place to be ♪ so i learn to depend on me ♪ i decided -- ♪ ♪ if i succeed [ laughter ] ♪ because the greatest love of all ♪ ♪ is happening to me ♪ i found the greatest ♪ love of all inside of me [ applause ] >> thank you very much.

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. live on book tv.org at 6:30 p.m., lisa dellpit, author of "multiplication for white people" says we have failed to engage black students in the classroom. you can see her remarks from the busboys and poets bookstore in washington, d.c. live at 6:30 p.m. on book tv.org. coming up here on c-span 3, a look at trade and u.s. exports with remarks from the u.s. ambassador to the world trade organization. then a house financial services subcommittee hearing on the

collapse of the financial brokerage firm, mf global. tonight on c-span 3, american history tv, with a look at life for african-americans during the 18th and 19th centuries. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, loni bunch, director of the smithsonian's national museum of african-american history and culture. the vast majority of consumers in the 90% are okay with this concept that these social networks and companies like google provide free services like web-based e-mail services, mapping service, like search services. and they do that for free, because they're able to sell nonpersonally identifiable information about the things you do on the internet. >> first awful, this is hardly my view with respect to the concerns about the change in had google's privacy policy. you add 36 state attorneys

general objecting, i don't think they're in europe, by the way, i think those are states within the u.s., you add congressional leaders in the democratic and opinion party objecting. you add 60 consumer organizations from the united states and europe objecting. >> open internet coalitions markum erickson and mark rot rotenburg on google's new privacy policy, providing free services for its users or violating their privacy, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on the communicators on c-span 2. the u.s. am as bass dor to the world trade organization spoke at the u.s. chamber of commerce last month about trade negotiations. russia joining the wto and u.s. global trade interests. after his remarks, he answered questions from the audience.

all right. i believe we're ready for our grand finale. changing hats now, i'm ralph carter -- i'm still ralph carter, managing director of legal trade and international affairs for fedex, as christopher said, pleased to serve as the chamber's co chair of their trade task force. very happy to be here today. i hope everyone found the panels as interesting as i did. i want to thank the chamber for organizing this, and for all of you for attending today. it's important that business stay engaged in the wto and express our support for an ambitious multilateral trade agenda. as chris mentioned, the statement by the chamber in europe is doing just that. so we hope today's conference will, as myron said, try and help kind of set -- set some

priorities and a pathway forward for 2012, and beyond. today we are especially pleased to be joined by deputy u.s. ambassador to the wto michael punk. everyone has his bio in front of you. but ambassador punk has worked in the field of international trade for two decades. from 1995 to '96. he served as senior policy adviser at ustr, where he worked on issues ranging from agricultural trade to intellectual property detection. from '93 to '95, he served at the white house as director for international economic affairs, the joint appointment to the national security council and the national economic council. from 1991 to '2, ambassador punk was international trade council to senator max baucus, where he worked in international trade issues. he also worked on international trade issues in the private sector, including as partne