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and tribal colleges and universities are at the highest risk. rates of food insecurity are also higher among african-americans, latinx students, indigenous, and native students. students with children experience higher rates of food insecurity during college than students without kids. rates of food insecurity are also much higher among students over 25, lgbtq students, veteran students, former foster youth, and students who are pursuing college after incarceration. long before the pandemic struck, higher education and safety net policies failed to address the new economics of college, and evolve with the students they are supposed to serve. public benefits programs like snap are a critical tool, but most food insecure students do not get snap benefits. largely due to restrictions on who can access them, and difficulty applying. even students who are deemed eligible for snap or other supports are often blocked by complex bureaucracies and administrative burden. many colleges and universities are doing what they can, and going beyond food pantries

brent: earlier i spoke to a professor at the university college in london who works on covid-19 data.d to have you on the program. we have heard today that this is mu variant omicron is probably the biggest threat in this pandemic. what does that mean? what scenario are you expecting to see in the comingeeks? guest: the problem with this variant is that the first time we ever heard of it was only three weeks ago. it is now 60% of cases in london and likely to be dominant in england within a few days. wherever it is being tracked across the world, it is doubling every two days. we haven't seen a spread that first. -- a spread that fast. that is the danger is that every two days, the problem gets twice as bad. so you don't have time to wait and see. that is why it could affect a lot of people in a short amount of time. and if any of them need hospital, you could certainly overwhelm the health services. brent: overwhelm the health services. but what about the severity of covid-19 with this new variants? are people getting sicker because of the newariants? guest: we are almost certain tha

and tribal colleges and universities are at the highest risk. rates of food insecurity are also higher among african-americans, latinx students, indigenous, and native students. students with children experience higher rates of food insecurity during college than students without kids. rates of food insecurity are also much higher among students over 25, lgbtq students, veteran students, former foster youth, and students who are pursuing college after incarceration. long before the pandemic struck, higher education and safety net policies failed to address the new economics of college, and evolve with the students they are supposed to serve. public benefits programs like snap are a critical tool, but most food insecure students do not get snap benefits. largely due to restrictions on who can access them, and difficulty applying. even students who are deemed eligible for snap or other supports are often blocked by complex bureaucracies and administrative burden. many colleges and universities are doing what they can, and going beyond food pantries

spent about ten years teaching college american university and very college all over the united states but. >> 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. s

and tribal colleges and universities are at the highest risk. rates of food insecurity are also higher among african-americans, latinx students, indigenous, and native students. students with children experience higher rates of food insecurity during college than students without kids. rates of food insecurity are also much higher among students over 25, lgbtq students, veteran students, former foster youth, and students who are pursuing college after incarceration. long before the pandemic struck, higher education and safety net policies failed to address the new economics of college, and evolve with the students they are supposed to serve. public benefits programs like snap are a critical tool, but most food insecure students do not get snap benefits. largely due to restrictions on who can access them, and difficulty applying. even students who are deemed eligible for snap or other supports are often blocked by complex bureaucracies and administrative burden. many colleges and universities are doing what they can, and going beyond food pantries

he's a lecture at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london. hello, francesco. 50. why would anyone want to touch the sun? what do we get out of that? yes, we have to leave careful is not exactly such as the sun. the sunny salbal of guys doesn't have a broker sort of a solid surface on the closest the space, but always going to be is about our for diameter there. so this on a far away from what we see the surface of the sun. so you not exactly touching the surface of the sun, but it does touching, being dental atmosphere, the sounding thermal corona, which is what a lot of things happen that effect they, the in the particle, the solar system on the earth. of course, i think we all set of sake of hearing a wed corona, but that does mean the upper atmosphere. is that correct and what, what do we learn from that upper atmosphere? where the good owner of the sun is what we seen the thoughts on solar eclipse. for example, that's i took, i'm of betty betty, i'm fine. i'm very beautiful. actually. looks like a flower. when i have seen several solar ec

i spent about 10 years teaching college at george mason university, 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

including the university of kentucky, illinois, minnesota as well as mississippi state college, a few of these projects resulted in campus growth plan for the mississippi state in the beginning years of the firm. earlier in 1906, these are the plans for the university of maine done by the olmsted brothers. and just to give an indication of their work, earlier in 1906 john c homestead teamed up with architect charles c blackwell to design a formal and symmetrical plan at the university of illinois. which remains a very important part of the university of illinois campus. when reviewing the experiences of the olmsted of the planning of the universities in the late 19 in early 20 century, some teams are currently many hard-working landscape architects today they were always out there pitching their firm to do work. were also reminded by the power that can be welded by a strong will president trustee or administrator, the town got relationships were and remain important. we see how building architects and landscape architects can bring conflicting incompatible visions. we see how some bui

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so you think about institution building, black colleges and universities is the idea of king of the role of college president over time shaping these policies both to advance racial equality but also oftentimes sometimes racial advancement as well so what does it mean for black institution when you think about black institution? >> i want to jump to doctor jones, replicate make this story of how flat women broke barriers. personal and wage are not for authorities in research and not only was a brilliant move but it had enrichment in my own research for my grandfather's will, i feel i got to know him pretty intimate through his papers and that study but i regret getting to know his current model but i'll give you a chance to respond to this. it's about your great grandmother and continues to talk about family history, who's the great-great-grandmother passed away in 1925. scholarship funds and reading, concerns and lectures in st. louis picked up her mother's manchin and her commitment to women's power into the college club. she let national and colors work. when she porte

so you think about institution building, black colleges and universities is the idea of king of the role of college president over time shaping these policies both to advance racial equality but also oftentimes sometimes racial advancement as well so what does it mean for black institution when you think about black institution? >> i want to jump to doctor jones, replicate make this story of how flat women broke barriers. personal and wage are not for authorities in research and not only was a brilliant move but it had enrichment in my own research for my grandfather's will, i feel i got to know him pretty intimate through his papers and that study but i regret getting to know his current model but i'll give you a chance to respond to this. it's about your great grandmother and continues to talk about family history, who's the great-great-grandmother passed away in 1925. scholarship funds and reading, concerns and lectures in st. louis picked up her mother's manchin and her commitment to women's power into the college club. she let national and colors work. when she porte

going to be offered by the university to increase the prestige of the university to game these ranking systems. >> what which are college experienced and would you do a different late today? i did graduate school at a large public university taught at those types of institutions and i see some similarities and some differences between m them. i offer the same advice that they did that they did a high school student when i talked to them today is to think about it strategically pick a major early on and take a major based on what you think is going to be suited to making a career in not because you are just trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path or hobby for life. in other words think of way to get through college efficiently. one thing i would have done in high school i would have taken more dance placement classes w continuing dual credit classes at a local community college to knock the general requirements out of the way people we find is these are one of the major computers that cost to college today or you are spending 1.5 to two years of your college experience taking gen ed classes and paying f

colleges. all the universities at that time -- colleges in alabama were involved, except the university of alabama, and that's a separate story. the land grant universities were included. the land grant polytechnic institute, which is now auburn, had been founded in 1856 as the east alabama male college. then renamed after the morrill act, the agricultural mechanical college of alabama in 1872 as the states first land grant school. and then again in 1899 as alabama polytechnic institute. the olmsted brothers began their auburn work in 1928 and completed their plan in 1929. and at this time it's really important to notice, of course, that john olmsted has died and rick olmsted is very busy plotting national parks and doing all kinds of wonderful things. the alabama work there was a man named james frantic dawson. i'm going to save the olmsted brothers from this point on, but in many cases there are others i will try to know down as well. among other elements, the olmsted brothers plan helped relocate 20 fraternity houses. something to do on a campus that i would not only love, but i would love to r

colleges. all the universities at that time, colleges in alabama were involved, except the university of alabama, and that's a separate story, and the state's land grant universities were included. the alabama polytechnic institute, which is now auburn had been founded in 1856 as the east alabama male college, then renamed after the moral act, agriculture and mechanical college of alabama, in 1872, as the states first land grant school. and then again in 1899 as alabama polytechnic institute. the olmsted brothers began their auburn work in 1928 and completed their plan in 1929. and at this time, it's really important to notice, of course, john olmsted has died. rick olmsted is a very busy individual, teaching and plotting national parks and doing all kinds of wonderful things, but others in the firm start to play lead roles in design. in the alabama work was a man named james frederic doleson, so i'll say the olmsted brothers from this point on, but in many cases there are others, i'll try to note them as well. among other elements of the olmsted brothers plan, tried to relocate fraternity house

plays endowment, we can make a mistake read the contributions of historically black colleges and universitiesnvaluable. according to the united eagle college fund, graduates are historic institutions hold fully, a quarter of all science and technology, engineering, mathematics degrees. they are earned by african americans. moreover, 12.5 percent of all black ceos and half of all of the nations black lawyers are hbcu graduates. i am so proud to say i am one of them. for other traditions of higher learning, hbcus have word -- work to endeavor theirs -- to weather the storm by forming partnerships with the public and private sector. the higher education emergency relief fund and hearing act provided more than $1 billion in grants for hbcus and other msi's suffering from hardship due to covid-19. prior to the pandemic, president trump signed into law the future act, making permit $255 million for mandatory funding for hbcus. also for other msi's. as a result, over the past several years, hbcus have seen a historic infusion of additional funding. as dr. martin luther king junior reminds us, we are

. >> i have, i spent 10 years teaching college at george mason university 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

a collection -- a lecturer in sociology at the university college london says in antiabortion rightsization would not have brought the bill to parliament if there was no chance it would pass. >> the ngo would not organize this initiative if it did not realize that there was parliamentary arithmetic's to pass the law. there was some hope that this draconian law could be passed. i need to stress that the foundations of this new proposed bill are threefold. the current law that allows abortion under very limited circumstances will be scrapped completely. the abortion will be criminalized. the terminating pregnancy will be equal to a homicide. including the punishment of the woman who will then -- who could be found guilty of homicide and that brings a prison sentence between two and 12 years. that will be possible because of the third foundation of the law. the law will expand the definition of a person and a human being and incorporate a prenatal stage. the definition of a human being and a person will be from conception to natural death. this law will be extremely draconian. even in m

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. >> it's important because on a recently retired head of education at a university college.rehed it to my staff so i have to do it as well. reporter: unlike the rest of the u.k. which has increased restrictions come the government in england is relying on vaccinations to get the country through the latest wave of covid. >> we watch very carefully all of the data and we have good news that it seems to be milder in terms of severity, but we watch hospitalizations all the time. reporter: the data their monitoring are for hospitalizations which are increasing, but it is far from the peaks of previous waves and, and london, which has been worse -- worst hit by omicron, the number of patients in icu beds like this and others are still well below worrying thresholds. some scientists sayhe spread of the virus in england seems to be slowing. >> cases are still rising. suggestions that we might have peaked probably not borne out, but on the other hand, cases are not increasing rapidly as they were a week or so ago. they are not doubling every couple of days now. >> but the virus and w

what he's jane is academic clinical fellow in public health that university college london joins us now. live what you make, of course, if underlines so when he's to be discussion now about mandatory vaccinations. i learned thanks to me. so i think that, that we can see the reason why people are concerned a particularly politicians, as you've mentioned with this new variant. and the case is going up in the number of european countries. so it's certainly a consideration. it's a point worth discussing. i would suggest the, there are several steps that should be considered before vaccines are made, considered mandatory. and there are a number of reasons for that. first, the, we've seen protest and civil unrest breakout in a lot of european countries over covey restrictions. and certainly now isn't the time going into winter to exacerbate some of those tensions that also have long term political and public health ramifications fiscal and the other thing really is, is about a trust in government and whether actually mandating vaccines will convert into increased coverage on that, i mean, is

it's really important because i am a recently retired senior head of education at university college. staff so i jolly well have to do it as well. if you see what i mean. unlike the rest of the uk, which has increased restrictions, the government in england is relying on vaccinations to get the country through the latest wave of covid. at the moment, we don't think that the evidence supports any more interventions beyond what we have done, but obviously we have to keep it under very close review, because if it is the case and we start to see a big increase in hospitalisations, then we would need to act further, and that's why we have to keep it under close review. so, what is the data the government is monitoring? in particular it is around the most vulnerable groups. london, the epicentre of the uk omicron outbreak, has seen some rises in infections in older people and hospitalisations, but figures for intensive care are still below any worrying threshold. cases are still rising. i think suggestions a few days ago that we might have actually started to peak i think was probably not b

well, i asked professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london. nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. i have all the big questions. if you can clarify some things for us right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can't be created or destroyed, can only be transferred, right? so does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can trace it back to where a live started. maybe even further big bank. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that. is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so an easy way to think of it is like a stream this flowing down a hill side and the, the, the molecules in the stream and any one moment and not the same molecules, but the stream itself is morris. as we are a person in that sense, sustaine

february, organized to say the variant will pose challenges. oksana pisec is a lecturer at the university college london school of pharmacy. she says the picture around our micron is becoming clearer and it's not particularly good. we are certainly on track for it to replace delta here in the u. k. in coming days and weeks. so globally, i imagine that effect will also take place, just based on, on how quickly the doubling rate is occurring. we have had one death in the u. k, thus far. so it is to seen, to draw conclusions around severity of alma kron. however, even if it turns out to be half and severe is delta just due to the rate of spread, it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the end, a chest and disrupt health care delivery. to an extent that will cause another significant crisis. if we can't get our boosters roll out accelerated and we have a human resource problem around that here in the u. k as well or will absolutely help in terms of reducing hospitalizations but boosters alone will not be enough. and we do need to look at other ways to break trains of transmission because

sha coogel is electra in sociology at the school of love on an east european studies at the university college london. she says an anti abortion rights organization wouldn't have brought the bill to parliament if there was no chance it would pass the n g a. would an organize this a legislative initiative? if it didn't realize that there was parliamentary arithmetic to pastelo, there was some idea. there is some hope that this draconian law can be passed. i just really need to stress the foundation of this new proposed bill. 3 followed the current law that allows abortion and the very, very limited circumstances that will be scrapped completely, that abortion i will be criminalized. and the terminating pregnancy will be equal to homicide, including the punishment of the work of the woman. and who will then be a could be found guilty of homicide. and that brings them to prison sentence between 2 and 12 years. and that will be possible because of the 3rd foundation of the law that the law will expand the definition of a person and a human being, and incorporate that a prenatal antenatal stage. so

asked, flourishing beautiful and abundant as well as professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london. nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. have all the big questions. you can clarify some things for us right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can be created or destroyed. it can only be transferred, right? so does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can tracy back to where life started. maybe even further big bank. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that. is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so the, an easy way to.

there are no reports of fighting casela from vol is from low new university college. he says, reclaiming some other towns in the region. maybe more strategically important to the t p life. living doesn't hold any military strategic, significant, such. but it is a symbolic it tall as it is, a well known unit school world heritage site, and so internationally it is available. so in that regard it is a drawback, obviously that the government lost control it. but there are other towns like just now, which might be more strategically important for t d f and for the military offensive, they are currently undertaking it is an intensive military campaign ongoing as we speak for the last 23 days, the territory has shifted again and it seems to be that the t d f, the tactical retreat, so week a week ago has managed them to regroup and to read grad john's. and now to push back on the government, offensive against ticket and held territories where it will take them. we don't know yet, this is on the western front line. we see the most intensive fighting over the last couple of da

nadine baba al jazeera london, both wild as an associate professor of international law at the university college london and joins me from the british capital. mister, while could have you with us on the program. i mean, what's your initial reaction to the verdict? was it expected? i think it's very important to appreciate that this is a very narrow finding, concerned with the specific issue of concerns relating to the mental state of julian assange and the consequences on that of him being extradited to, to the u. s. and the extradition decision hinged on all the risk to that particular rather than own any broader consideration about whether or not for example, somebody who did what he did should be tried. i saw or tried certainly in, in the u. s. b, these proceedings weren't about these proceedings, were specifically concerned with the risk to his mental health of the particular condition that he would be held in in the us both in terms of the pre trial conditions. and then if he were to be convicted, it seems very obvious that the court has been convinced now by the americans or by lawyers in

it's really important because i'm a recently retired senior head of education at university college soo my staff so i have to jolly well do it as well! unlike the rest of the uk which has increased restrictions, the government in england is relying on vaccinations to get the country through the latest wave of covid. we do watch carefully all of the data and we have had some good news that it seems to be a bit milder in terms of severity but we do watch the hospitalisations and watc the number of people in hospitals all the time. the data that the government in england are monitoring in particular are the hospitalisations which are increasing, but are still far from the peak of previous waves. and in london, which has been worst hit by omicron, the number of patients in icu beds at hospitals like this and others are still well below worrying thresholds. despite the latest figures showing record high infections in the uk relating to the christmas period, some scientists say that the spread of the virus in england seems to be slowing. cases are still rising. i think suggestions a few days

this critically turnville is a professor of peace and conflict studies at oslo new university college. he says, reclaiming some other towns in the region may be more strategically important to the t p l. f labella doesn't hold any military pretending significant assets, but it is a symbolic it tall as it is a well known unit school world heritage site. and so it nationally, it is available. so in that regard it is drawback obviously is that the government lost control. but there are other towns like because and now which might be more strategically important for t d f and for the military offensive, they are currently undertaking it is an intensive military campaign ongoing as we speak for the last 23 days, the territory has shifted again and it seems to be that the t d f, the tactical retreat, so week a week ago has managed them to regroup, to wreath grad to john's. and now to push back on the government offences against ticket and held territories where it will take them, we don't know yet, this is on the western front line. we see the most intensify things over the last couple of d

well as professor of evolutionary biochemistry at university college london, nick lane mclean. it's really great to have you with us in our program. i do have all the big questions. oh, you can clarify some things for us. right from, from what i understand energy contained in molecules is pretty much the reason for life on earth. so energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only be transferred, right? so what does this really mean that energy that i consist of? we can trace it back to where a life started. maybe even further big bang. in principle, i suppose you could, but nobody would have a brain big enough to do that is really the flow of energy, which is the important thing. so the way is moving from place to place and through us continuously. so we are eating and breathing all the time and we're changing our molecules of time. so an easy way to think of it is like a stream is flowing down a hill side and the, the.

oksana pisec leader of the global citizenship program on our breaks of infectious diseases at university college london from amsterdam. yup. if he is journalist, specializing in medical science and in hong kong, john nichols is clinical professor pathology of the university of hong kong. thank you for joining the program. oksana from the data available so far. is it fair to say that the world may be bracing for a search of infections? similar to what happened in april 2020. well sir, we will see that vaccinations are going to mute some of the symptoms, but boosters are very clearly needed and in the u. k, there is a target of trying to achieve 1000000 boosters a day, which is very ambitious indeed, but it won't be enough to quell the crown wave that is rising faster than any other barrier that we have seen today. so it's likely that in many countries with a similar demographic to the u. k, will experience a similar rate of spread amongst its most vulnerable populations as well as in europe, the countries of how started going back into locked downs or re imposing tougher restrictions. all these m