university. professor marybeth gasman from university of pennsylvania. so who should go first? >> i will. spent and your timing? thank you. thank you again to the civil rights project and all the other sponsors. it's wonderful to be in this auditorium. and thank you to my co-authors, toby and dominique. let me start with our main message of the paper which is this, college completion is not just a post secondary issue. the data we use out of the state administrative base in texas attack students from chemical all the way through graduate school down to the workforce in between. what we find is that what contributed to the gap in college completion by race actually much of that happens before the student ever enrolls in college. to problems or two issues framed a texas college success, or lack