houses shops a busy streets in the center of the city evolving quickly into the first true american universityer early institution was a college that evolved in columbia university in new york which began lower manhattan in the buildings in the upper left by 1838 it had already moved one step forward to 14th and madison into the gothic revival structure you see on the lower left and this is the one that homestead would first have known when the rapidly expanding city look like it does in the print you see on the right. if this was the state of cause development in america at the time of frederick olmsted's youth, it was his experiences or knowledge of it? this is a famous photo you must know and frederick olmsted is in the lower right and that is his brother older brother john, just above him on the right side. not a lot is documented except for his shifting about new england after his mother died and that although he didn't enter college like his older brother and when he might have because of a very severe eye element that again several months in 1943 he visited his brother john and stan at

well-mannered three-story buildings in the center of the city, evolving quickly into the first true american universitye other early institution was a college that evolved into columbia university in new york which began in lower manhattan in the buildings seen in the upper left. by 1848 it had already moved once to 48th and madison into the gothic revival structure you see on the lower left and this is the one that olmsted would first have known when the rapidly expanding city looked like it does in the print you see on the right. well, if this was the state of college development in america at the time of frederick law olmsted's youth what were his experiences or his knowledge of it? this is a famous photo that you must know and frank lloyd -- frederick law olmsted is in the lower right and that's his brother, older brother john just above him on the right side there. well, not a lot is documented except for his shifting about new england after his mother died and that although he didn't enter college like his older brother when he might have because of a very severe eye ailment first in 1842 and the

spent about ten years teaching college american university and very college all over the united statesut. >> what was your experience like? >> it was an interesting environment to put it mildly. many good positive things came out of it both in terms of college i work with and the research that i did. i also got to see the inside behind the scenes of what happens in the way a university runs. >> and what did you find? >> my immediate take on it is, if we judged a university just as a normal business operation there are things that happen in universities that would make things like enron look ethical by comparison. >> give us an example. >> the first thing is the weight universities and market themselves through students. if you go to any university they have literature they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities. their promising high and mighty things but every student that comes to their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results was coming out of the university system it's a range of degrees. som

in the wake of the civil war, american universities emerged as important, national institutions. olmsted believe that the physical environment of learning, buildings and grounds, played a significant role in the success of education. he planned campuses for stanford and cornell. and successor olmsted firms undertook projects at scores of institutions including duke, harvard, gallaudet, wellesley, sophomore and johns hopkins. today, practitioners and scholars will discuss olmsted kemp's planning and look to the future. how olmsted principles can inform campus design, today. and we have an absolutely stellar line up the speakers kicking off this morning with laurie olin, teacher, author and renowned landscape architect. he's the founded partner of the fern in philadelphia, and his career is as multifaceted and extraordinary as olmsted's. we are honored that laurie is during the olmsted 200 honorÉ committee. his overseen projects on the washington monument grounds, bryant park in new york city, the barnes foundation in philadelphia, and the park in portland oregon. his awards are nu

i spent 10 years teaching college at george mason university, american university all over united states. >> what was your experience like? >> well it was an interesting environment to put it mildly. both in terms of colleagues that i worked with in the resources i had. i also got to see behind the scenes what happens in the way the university learns. >> what did you find? >> my immediate thought is just an operation it makes enron look ethical byik comparison. the first thing is the way universities market themselves to students. if you got any university in america they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities so they are promising high and mighty things that everything that comes through their system, when you look at the results of system's they range of degrees that are not worth the money you are paying for and seniors are leaving with a massive amount of debt and little in the way of job prospects and their often promises that are made and you see it youtuber see them as traders looking for more money and more time o

it's a street that we chose, at the american university, to provide a modern, pedestrian-friendly street in the city. - as a way to give back to the community, mona el hallak and her team at the american university of beirut developed a project called neighborhood initiative. together, they transformed the street just outside the campus walls by creating wider sidewalks, adding benches and improving green spaces for public enjoyment. but that's not all mona does, not even close. born and raised in beirut, mona was only seven when the civil war broke out. through education, activism and design, she now works relentlessly to improve her beloved city. o.k. so architect, urban activist, urban design initiator, and now you're sort of muscling your way into politics. what's up with that? i mean, i've been, all my life, trying to preserve heritage buildings, to preserve our natural coast, to look into housing alternatives for affordable housing, work on waste management, so by default, i'm doing what the politicians should do, right? - mona is part of a unique political collective called beirut

american university derrycollege written all over the united states . >> what wasyour experience like ? >> it was an interesting environment. to put it mildly. many good positive things that came out of it both in terms of college i worked with the research that i did but i often have a behind-the-scenes of what happened in the way that a university learns. >> what did you find? >> my immediate take on it is that if you judge the university just as a normal business operation, there are things that happen at universities that would make something like enronmake odd by comparison . >> i think the first thing is the way the university markets themselves through students because if you go to any university in america they present themselves as you're going to get a world-class education and open all sorts of possibilities so their promising high and mighty things every student that comes through their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results of what's coming out of theuniversity system , it's a range of degrees that some of them are not worth the

, american university, and barry college, all over the united states. >> and what is your experience like? >> well, it was an interesting environment to put it mildliment many good positive things came out of it in terms of colleagues that i worked with and the research that i did and a look inside at behind the scenes that happens in the way that a university learns. >> and what did you find? >> well, my immediate take it, and just an institution, looking at enron in comparison. >> give us an example. >> the way that universities market themselves to america, you go to any university, glossy literature, you're going to get a first class education and high and mighty things that every student is going to get, but when you look at the results of what's coming out of the university system, it's at the range of degrees that many so of them are not worth the money that you're paying for, so students are leaving with a massive amount of debt, but very little in the way of job prospects. there's often promises that i made that sim

nada melhem is associate professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the american universitydiseases. thank you much forjoining us here on bbc news. first of all, could you just give us a picture, a broad sort of idea of how lebanon is being infected at the moment by covid—i9? thankfully, the cumulative number of daily cases has doubled since the beginning of september compared to those that we have seen earlier during the summer and we are currently at the daily number of cases and the incidence rate has also doubled as well. the mortality rate is currently at 3% and with more than 86% of these cases being unvaccinated, so we have approximately an average of 17—19 people dying from covid—i9. unfortunately, 78% of our icu beds are currently vaccinated and 98% of these occupants are not vaccinated. —— are currently occupied. there is also an increase positivity rate and now we're at an average during the past ia days of ii% and so lebanon has been affected not only by the pandemic but also by an economic an economic crisis that left the country at large and the health care sys

american universities must cease all cooperation with communist controlled institutions, have zero tolerance communist controlled networks and informers on their campuses and ideally not educating prc citizens at all. american government bureaucracies should be compelled to stop funding and cooperating with communist bureaucracies and institutions. the wuhan institute of virology sounds like a good place to start. do these things or even threaten them, and the cry goes up from the elites you will hurt american jobs and prosperity if you cut off communist china. this is the suicide note linden denounced. we should not have to sen the dominance of communist china as the price tag for our american way of life. it is also a lie. the united states virtually no trade from mainland china 1949 9 clear through into the 1990s and managed to conduct the world's highest standard of living without them. so, let's do it again. for all that we have been and meant, we cannot look away from this fight. the enemy is here now. he commands the heights of hollywood, silicon valley and wall street. is he poisonin

paul nakasone talks about cybersecurity and national security joint up virtual event hosted by american university. >> my name is rajesh de. for those of you those of you who don't know me, i cheaper -- it's a total privilege to be here with general paul nakasone. i'll give you a little bit of background about the commander and then we'll get started. over the course of our discussion, i'd encourage you if you have questions, please put them in the chat and i'll try to work them into our conversation. >> now general paul nakasone serves as the commander of u.s. cyber command and director of the national security agency. and he served in that combat capacity since may of 2018. he previously commended u.s. army cyber command from october 2016 until taking over this role. he's a native of white bear lake, minnesota, and a graduate st. john's university, college of minnesota, where he received his commission to the reserve officers training. he holds graduate degrees from u.s. army war college, the national defense intelligence college and the university of southern california. general nakasone has he

he's also a professor of journalism at the american university of bailey. welcome to the program, henry the, the picture of the last american soldier to get into the military playing of cobbled airport in august. and then the taliban take over was for many, an iconic moment, an indication that the region won't be the same again. do you see that as an indication that the americans are starting to disengage from the middle east? well, that, that moment was certainly iconic. important had ramifications throughout the middle east throughout the world. i think most people, after that moment came to see the united states is a bit weaker as a bit less competent than they had previously. i think within the administration here in washington, within the, by the ministration, there has been some important, deep rethinking. and they've come out, come up with this policy that i think the u. s. middle east coordinator breton kirk outlined in bahrain a few weeks ago, which is back to basics. the united states will be back to basics in the middle east, which does not mean w

large american universities, this is the way they wanted to be structured.double taxation�*. and that's what we did. i always pay tax to the uk for all my earnings. during the whole pariod, i have been doing it. the important things for the sovereign wealth fund is that companies pay tax where the earnings are made, which it was also what i've done. it's also important that it's fully transparent in terms of what tax you pay tax, and so on, which i've also done. i've always been completely in compliance with the expectation that the sovereign wealth funds have to companies. it's just that you have made a point — and the wealth fund, generally, actually, have made a point — that generally, it says it wants to be a much more active shareholder. because you hold investments — i think it's over 9,000 listed companies around the world — and your shareholdings run into many of these companies billions of dollars. in percentage terms, it might be anything from 1% to 3% or 4% of the company you own. therefore, you want now to have a voice on the way those companies

unheard. center for their elders. eda baled a mark. thou is professor of communications at the american university of beirut, joins us via skype from there. good to have you with us. so do you think the latest visit by the un secretary general will make a difference to the bleak outlook for lebanon? not at all. busy to come directly to the plain job while he's doing his tour of the president's the prime minister, a speaker of the house, and the religious leaders, the prime minister. a crushed out of a meeting with both speaker of the house and issued the statement saying he will not cover it up if violation of the constitution of the people. good debtors as meeting with odd to busy covering up for that crimes to actually be proposing any solutions. and this has been consistent since the start of the crisis back in october 2 10191 he's basically doing with this trip is literally helping them gain some credibility, which they have lost on the international stage. those individuals are themselves responsible. they knew about the ammonium nitrate that exploded and the port. these are exactly the same

fellow at the brookings institution's, metropolitan policy program -- a scholar in residence at american university communist -- columnist for the hector report. he served as an associate professor at the university of new orleans department of educational leadership counseling and foundations. dr. perry earned his phd in education policy, and leadership from the university of maryland. he earned a ba from allegheny college. welcome, doctor. dr. perry: good afternoon, chairman wilson, ranking members of the subcommittee. thank you for inviting me here to testify on a matter of national security. from the industrial revolution in the 18 and 19th centuries to the tech boom throughout the last decade, government investments and innovations that develop from a wide swath of americans help make the united states a sustainable global power. however, our standing as world leader in innovation technology is severely at risk. for lack of recognition and investment in black innovators runs alongside outliers in the innovation economy overall. federal research and development investment has been in decline fo

the minister resigned on friday, rami cory is a senior public policy fellow at the american university of bay routes, and explained some of frances motivations in mediating i think what's going on is the saudis are trying the saudis feel a little bit isolated. they've failed and virtually every initiative they've taken in the middle east and yemen and cut out of lebanon and iran. and virtually every foreign policy initiatives they've taken under them sell, man has failed and are backfired. and they really are trying to figure out a new way to reengage diplomatically with other countries in the region. and in the world the, the american president won't talk to the saudi crown prince because of the assassination. and so the, the so, or the leadership feels a little bit isolated among some people in the world. macros sees this as an opportunity to step in sell arms to the rockies. so arms to other people, re establish some kind of french role in the region. so everybody sees some kind of benefit in this as seen from the saw or the perspective. the fact is that the french has simply played

studies for memory phd american studies university of minnesota. currently a professor of history at harvard also the director of the charles lawrence center for studies of american history. i'm not kidding when i say doctor miles is prolific author of six books, her first but ties that bind from the organization of american historians and american study association and the house on diamond hill one public history and the american society for ethnic history book prices. her novel was an award finalist. also public lecture series won the award for social history and the history of race relations from the organization of american and historians. but then the legacy award of nonfiction an american book award and the frederick douglass prize. we are all here to learn all that she carries which receives an outpouring of faith some of that comes from the back of the book and then to confront the staggering atrocity of american slavery and the beauty of the lie street chronicles with the brilliant and tenderness i can attest of where she approaches history

let's discuss this image with william laurence, a professor of international relations and american university foreman of africa. project tracks director for the international crisis group joins us on skype from washington. the electoral process in libya appears to have collapsed. there isn't going to be an election, is that actually not. and we've known that for 11 days. the reason why it hasn't been announced is because there's no new date. so the context here is that the, you and envoy and the you and of course is pressing for and, and are arguing for and organizing these elections. and it was the un process of berlin that created the government in libya. now their ongoing resigned a month ago. and without an envoy, it was very hard for us to keep things on track. and so stephanie williams, the former active on boy who's the most respected person by both sides, that's been involved in the mediation over the last 7 years. she's been brought in as a special advisor. and she's been doing shuttle diplomacy around libya to try to get the elections back on track. she hasn't succeeded yet in findi

he's a senior public policy fellow at the american university of pe routes. he joins us on skype from cambridge, massachusetts ramey, great to happy here again on the news out. let's go back just a few days. what the information minister said, was there anything, factually inaccurate about what he said? i know what he's said about saudi's being involved in the am and wars. absolutely correct. just and the tradition of inter are politics with hypocrisy and, and protocol and all the things that people do to stay in touch with. you're not supposed to say things in public even if they're true. and, but this is a bigger than that is because there is a, a complex relationship between the saudi government and the state of lebanon. and the various actors, particularly the suddenly of loving and traditionally recently led by the and so there's other factors, they just use that statement by the information most or as an excuse to try a new way to pressure lebanon. and to trying to reduce has bottle as role they've been trying to do this for, for over a decade. and it h

is this a positive move for american universities to make? i don't think it is, i mean part it's part and parcel of this effort to get rid of the concept of the meritocracy. and the, the objective meritocracy in america. this idea that you can actually have some way of looking at folks and empirically comparing folks one to the other. but there's been a movement over the course of the last 15 years to make it once again more subjective . and i think students are not going to be very well served by this in long term. ok, so to get into harvard, you need to add a 1600 score there to g. i know you got that, but most people don't. but you also have to show other documentation proving you are worthy of studying and such a prestigious university. so what are they going to base their selection on at the score is no longer needed anymore. i mean, we all know that g, p a's have different ways and different scales. how do people get into schools like harvard? well, that's exactly at any interest of disclosure. i did not get into harvard when i applied

they have a lot of analysts and senior officials with masters and phd's from american universities, they english, they know how to manipulate our system, we're not prepared, nobody in top level of biden administration speaks chinese, you hear them mispronouncing the chinese leaders name, it is ignore an americans -- ignore an americans against the highly sophisticate chinese. president trump tried to stop this, but the biden administration is giving it rhetorical commentary, that is about all. all. >> you know. michael pillsbury, you look at reaction of this badge to rush administration to russia and to middle east, begging iran to come to the table. yet iran is thumbing their nose at them. and chinese and first meeting with our secretary of state, and so fourth, they mocked him, and they mocked the united states it does not appear to me they have much respect for the commander in chief, or he has much respect for himself, the chinese military is getting very powerful, they don't need to spend as money as we do, they are basically a slave country. in our country, the defense budget is fl

this is the campaign of racial profiling of ethnic chinese scientists and american university. in the fbi investigated people and alleged that they were stealing and giving american secrets to china or something like this. they've not been able to bring one case to show this. a lot of scientists have been fired by the university and one of them the first case that went to trial in tennessee the chinese scientists one case. they can't even bring charges of ip theft the bring charges of tax evasion or fraud because they filled out a application to the department of energy and neglected to put down that they gave us begin engagement the chinese university or some arrangement. none of this is held up in the courts and people are losing their jobs. it is terrible. >> quite a few of espionage have brought with great fanfare and most of them up and drop. >> that was an early example from los alamos. but i don't know why the justice department continues on this campaign other than it feeds a larger political agenda of declaring china the number one adversary of the united states. >> i t

biden administration of any campaign of racial profiling of ethnic chinese scientists at the american universities. and the fbi investigated people and allege that they were stealing and giving american secrets to china or something like this and they had not yet brought one case to show this, a lot of science professors have been fired byn the university ad one u of them, the first case wt to trial in tennessee, the scientists when a case. in these charges of the ip theft, they are charges of tax evasion or fraud because they filled out an application to the department of energy and the neglected to put down that they had pre- engagement in the chinese university they had some arrangements. none of this is held in the course and people are losing their jobs. >> espionage cases have been broad with great fanfare. >> there is nothing there. >> that was a great example for came out but i don't know, my item 11 justice department continues on his campaign other than there is a larger political agenda of declaring china as an adversary of the united states. >> well, i think that we are up near the end

the ones at the american university in afghanistan. they cut up their i.d. cards.y don't want to be found by the taliban. i have sources trying to get them out. the options for women in afghanistan are two fold: welcome a bride or they are dead. it's awful. that goes against everything kamala harris fought for. >> this is why biden's poll numbers and hers too are so low right now. we have a lot more coming up. stay with us. the mainstream media's double standard on the president is on full display. after the latest "let's go brandon" controversy. that's next. >> ♪ ♪ veteran homeowners- you made a smart move when you bought your home. now make another one and turn your equity into cash. with the newday 100 va loan you can take out up to $60,000 or more. veteran homeowners- with home values at all-time highs and rates at near all-time lows now's the time to do more with your home equity. veterans are calling newday at a record pace to take advantage of the newday 100 va loan. you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value to upgrade the kitchen, add a pool for the gr

at the american university in washington college of law. you have five minutes please. thank you. ranking member to me and members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. as a director of financial policy of the open markets institute, my work focuses on financial regulation and consumer protections. my degrees in computer science, and i previously worked as a programmer for morgan stanley, building electronic trading systems. as a business analyst, we worked with ogre -- directive -- derivative trading. i am also an investor brit i invest in the equity markets, and i invest in the crypto asset markets. these crypto exchanges lend, borrow, and trade crypto. i have bridged from one block chained to the other. in doing so, i have seen how stable coins are used across the ecosystem, and i agree with the assessment that stable coins are here for speculation. stable coins are actively a way station. they deal with speculative trade and avoid losses. stable coins are also hailed it -- heralded for their potential. they are not used widely today for goods and servic

paul nakasone talks about cybersecurity and national security joint up virtual event hosted by american university. >> my name is rajesh de. for those of you those of you who don't know me, i cheaper -- it's a total privilege to be here with general paul nakasone. g

scott is a graduate of the american university of the college of law. i'm also pleased to introduce to be an associate judge. he's from the division of the united states department of justice. in this position has spent two decades enforcing such important civil rights laws as the fair housing act and the civil rights act. has received special achievement awards and is a three-time recipient of special come men -- commendation for outstanding performance. an assistant state public defender, coordinator, not during this time, but before this time with the department of justice. he was an assistant state public defender in florida, litigating on behalf of indigent individuals. a graduate of morehouse college and a graduate of law school. holds a masters in public policy from harvard kennedy school of government. i appreciate the committee moving these nominees and i look forward to working with you to end the vacancy crisis. >> welcome, judge scott and judge scott, you may proceed with your opening remarks. >> i think you're on mute right now, judge. >> t

harvard university professor is on trial for allegedly lying to federal investigators about his ties to china. the case is seen as major odessa for the u.s. effort to prevent china from stealing americanr of harvard university's chemistry department and an expert in cutting edge science. his research group received millions in grants from the pentagon, doctor charles lieber, also worked for a chinese university for $50,000 a month. and more than $150,000 in living expenses. federal prosecutors say he hid key details of this arrangement from harvard. the department of defense, and the irs. >> failure to disclose foreign affiliations and foreign funding can pose serious threats to national security. >> lieber's ongoing trial is a major test for a justice department initiative to thwart the chinese government's efforts to steal american technology and sensitive research. prosecutors say the national institutes of health and the pentagon gave lieber's research group at harvard $15 million in grants, which required him to disclose money from foreign governments. the "boston globe" reports when the fbi arrested him, lieber said the wuhan university of technology had paid him only travel cos

report this month from a think tank foundation for defense of democracies detailing dozens of american university that also support china's military. bret? >> bret: all right, rich, thank you. speaking of china, we have new information about how china is using advanced technology to produce mind control. you heard that right. mind control. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has the story from the pentagon. >> it would be literally like putting a device into your brain that could launch a missile. >> it sounds like a sci-fi politicaller using technology control its own people. machines that could allow a chinese commando to discharge a weapon with just a thought not a trigger finger. >> that's what they mean by brain control technology. like a new field. >> this month the biden administration targeted the emerging threat by levying sanctions on 37 chinese biotechnology companies that have ties to this research that experts say include so-called mind control weapons. former dni john ratcliffe warns against the u.s. trying to keep up with china's unscrupulous efforts. >> we are not goi

i've always been told that american universities was not one of the schools that adopted the quotas. but the discrimination was not only that but of the graduate education but also about professional education. some of this quote because it is so powerful that the dean of the medical school could say never admit more than five jews and take only two italian catholics had take no lax at all. in the days of the american landscape, it was not only about quotas and education, but the jews could not get hired not in manufacturing, they cannot get hired in many corporate law firms they could not get hired in a private hospital in some area like the state department, you would not have found any jews working. help wanted ads, i don't know if you remember what they were, but they ran the newspaper, help wanted male or female you are allowed to do that, and they can also advertise christians only, they can say, in other words no juice may enter need apply. so head of the jews respond. the historian person found this list of distinctive jewish names in the archives and she began researching pe

your son eli was a sophomore here in washington at american university when he died. hat led to the overdose. >> well, eli was a sophomore at american. and he was doing great. he had a 3.7 gpa. he interned at the spanish education development center here in washington. and he was on his way. he had just joined a fraternity. and the circumstances are rather unclear to us at this point. we know that he had fentanyl in his body when he died. he died suddenly in the shower one night when he was getting ready to go out with some friends. and he was a kid who would never have taken something intentionally that had fentanyl in it. he did not intend to die, just like the 70,000 approximately people who have died from synthetic opioids in the last year. >> he had kradum? what is . >> credum is an opioid, it's a calming substance and i was unaware that eli would have taken credum. it is legal in washington, d.c. >> clearly this issue hits close to home. but are you also a member of congress. sol what are you doing to try to reverse these horrific terrifying overdose numbers? >>