you and i come to the university at the same time. we have the same salary, so there is no merit system. we have a distinguished chair professor, two different kinds, and i think a reasonable salary, hoping we can attract distinguished professors to join us. that is one thing we are doing. you also mentioned fundraising. ne thing i did not have muchng. experience before coming back to taiwan, but i'm working very hard and it's not easy, but my sense is in taiwan, a lot of people in the industry have a good mind that really want to help but didn't know in what way they can do, i think i see things getting better with efforts and hopefully we can bring some support from the industry. when i talk to them, they are always impressed that we are really committed to education and worry very much about the quality of education in taiwan. that's a good sign. what i mentioned about the fundraising salaries, they are what i call hardware. to me, it is the software that matters the most. when i first come to yang-ming university, i preach for the

that's not our view, and i feel sorry for those universities. ink they've lost their moral bearings, and i think they've lost their catholic identity when they water it down to the point where everything's true. >> still, many georgetown students argue that this catholic university has found the right mix of scholarship and religious character. >> i think it's reaching a great number of students, non-catholic and catholic, and helping them to develop, grow in their own faith and figure out really how they can bring their faith into public life. >> on georgetown's campus there are, of course, dissenting voices which contend that this university has strayed. >> is it catholic enough? i would say no. we have the knights of columbus the catholic daughters, there's all student-run organizations, but the university is not promoting this stuff. we have a mass, but are they teaching you about this stuff? are they promoting this as an ideal, as a good? >> and you would say no. >> i would say they are a little passive on that. >> senior andrew schilling li

university? >> there is a video of them both. there is a video of the professor and founder and the registrar. from public records, we know they are living in the u.k. on the university's website, the phone number the university lists has this area code. the bank you pay tuition fees to for the university is the local island bank --local bank. it might be incorporated in the caribbean, but it appears the company is operated in the u.k. >> on the website, the university says it does not award british qualifications. it has claims to be recognized by three different american institutions, but all of these are unofficial and unrecognized. it used to say it was accredited in norway, but the people there say it never happened. it is listed as bogus by the agency that values degrees by the italian government. it has been blacklisted in five u.s. states, including texas, where it is illegal to use any of its qualifications to get a job. looking online, the university does boast an impressive faculty list with some well-qualified supervisors. when we contacted five academics on the list, all said they

and that is very clear. please, do not separate university into teaching and research. >> do you think the government is on the right track? we often hear people say there are too many universities in taiwan. >> i said that 15 years ago. the other element is resources. we have limited resources. we can't do everything. >> we have a declining birthrate, probably the lowest in the world trade it becomes more competitive in terms of recruiting the top quality students available. >> i remember back in august of 2009, you were invited by the higher education credit they should counsel of high want to give a speech on clarifying some myth about teaching and research and continuing the argument you just proposed. what would be some of the traditional myths people may have regarding research and teaching? >> there are many of them. education is something, everybody knows something. but most of those, if you don't believe it, you take a taxi driver. everyone would tell you, but no basis. for example, people tend to say you do too much research therefore you cannot be a good teacher. a lot of people say you need to teac

seven students, students and alumna, under title 9 said that the university discounted and ignored their reports of rape. it is the latest effort to hold higher ed responsible for the protection of students on campus, following pathways by two women of the university of north carolina. >> it happened specifically, it was within two minutes that i was -- my head was slammed into a bat room door and then again next to the toilet and you know, the assault proceeded. >> i remember like putting my hands on the sink and just like looking at myself in the mirror, and not even being able to fully comprehend what had just happened. and it was just like, i need to get out of here. raped. at a place most of us assume will be a haic haven of learnind of safety: college. annie was a freshman and andrea a sophomore, each tenanting unc at chapel hill. they said they were not given what they needed afterwards. >> i couldn't say this happened to me this happened to me this happened to me and to be questioned hours upon hours. i knew when i did report because i did i was blamed for my own experience. >> w

several women filed a discrimination do can many compg the university discounted and ignored their reportspe. it's following the path played d by two young women from the university of north carolina. >> it happened so quickly within two minutes my head was slammed into a \ room door and then again next to a toilet and the assaulassault proceeded. >> i remember looking at myself and not being able to fully comprehend what happened. and i need to get out of here. >> these women say they were raped at a place most people believe is a haven of learning. they were a freshman and a sophomore. each attending the unc at chapel hill each says the university failed to protect them in the first place. or give them the support they needed to cope with the experience after ward. >> the last thing i would want to do is walk int into an an ofe meetly aftemeetimmediately aftes happened and be questioned on it for hours. >> i know when i did report it i was blamed for it. i was told that rape was like a football game and i should look back on the experience and what would i have done differently to avoid

cultural specificity results and universality. f you're not getting the specificity, how are you going to get to the universal ability to tell it and that is the trickiness because africa is so generally under representated. are 900 million people. it is the second largest continent on the planet. there is such a variety of stories and experiences but it is easy to nitpick the things that are on the surface, quick, -type new things and that becomes what you go to because it is easy. now it is at a point where it is not ok anymore, we are in the 21st-century. there are multiple mass of award-winning novelists from the continent who have written amazing stories that can be adapted and the story is already right there. the cultural specificity is on the page. isare at a point where there no reason to nitpick in the sense of going for what is basic and on the surface and easy. we are at the poor it -- point where it is easy to go in and get the authentic story. the question is, who is going to invest in that and that is the next questi

and ten more years after that. bob became associated with stanford university and serves on stanford's athletic board. in fact, it was bob's idea to start a tradition at stanford's new stadium where the players stay on the field after the game and sing the school's alma mater with the fans. bob liked the reception that got so much it sparked in him a bigger idea. >> came up with the theme of honoring the veterans at their home football game closest to veterans' day. >> honoring them at every college and university in the country, which meant writing a letter to every college and university in the country. >> i wrote over 600 letters to colleges. >> the only thing more remarkable to bob is that so many letters were answered. >> it was almost like christmas. >> in the affirmative. >> every day it was great stuff. this is the stack of replies from college presidents. >> by now bob figures every school he asks to take part will in some way. some continuing old traditions. others starting new ones. veterans everywhere getting the thanks they deserve. >> i like projects, and this particular one caught my fa

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. >>> coming up, bob faw on catholic colleges and universities seeking to maintain their catholic identitythe midst of changing social influences. >>> and judy valente looks at the spiritual journey of christian wiman, a poet, teacher, husband and father who lives with incurable cancer. >>> major funding for "religion and ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome, i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. new ethical questions this week about civilians killed in u.s. drone strikes against terrorists. amnesty international investigated nine drone strikes in pakistan over the past year and found that mo than 30 civilians had been killed. in a separate study, human rights watch looked at six airstrikes in yemen since 2009. it claims at least 57 of the 82 people killed were civilians,

and outlook. they show the top ten universities are located in the united states and britain. the california institute of technology is ranked first followed by harvard university and the university of oxford, both in second place. the university of tokyo advanced four places from last year to 23rd position worldwide. it ranked as the top university in asia for the third year. the national university of singapore became second in asia and 26th overall. seoul national university in south korea and peking yuft in 44th and 45th places respectfully. many other asian universities moved higher in the global ranktion. in the globarankings. >> for 70 years, donald king has been in japanese literature. since he first became a book in a new york book shop, king spent his life introducing japanese culture to the world. last month a museum and research center dedicated to his work opened in the prefecture. we have this report. the center in the city is morehan a meumfis life and works. it's also intendeds to a center for studying thfield of japane literature. the main hall holds an exhibit

north charles and universal, more construction-related delays. we will look that jfx. lots of green on the screen, that's good. and 695 and up towards, if you take all of 695 and then 795, it is looking good. travel times, lots of green on your screen. more traffic and weather together is coming up. charlie. >>> 3 minutes after the hour. it is not just the partial government shutdown at the government has to worry about. today the house returns as the u.s. moves towards the debt ceiling crisis. the treasury secretary is warning that the government is playing with fire. john boehner ruling out a bill unless the president makes concessions. hundreds of thousands of workers are furloughed. >> it is time to end the shutdown. it is time to stop the blame game and to reopen government. we need to open the entire united states government and not do it in a piecemeal way. >> however, house republicans are refusing to pass a short- term spending bill, unless there are delays made to obamacare. president barack obama and democrats are causing it political extortion. >>> today, 3,

the language of the universe is mass and figuring that figure that out that early it meant i didn't have any sort of math things id because i want to talk to the universe you want to talk to somebody you going to learn their language and there's no fear factor at all why is nasa in all of the problems we have in the world poverty and why is my space important. well i think of space well. let me split that question is why why am i interested in space because i think it's fascinating it's awesome it's limitless it's boundless and if it holds the seeds of everyone's curiosity i mean to whatever extent curiosity is written in our d.n.a. nasa fulfills the expression of that curiosity and a song don't tell me you've never walked out at night and looked up and just wondered in a stupor how far away the stars are what they're made of are there is there life out there how did it all begin how's it going to end it's kennedy said we know may have we made to explore but is it more important. so that's my lens that's why i do it so now you want it practical yeah that

and they won. later he did graduate study at harvard university and became very involved with the naacp and later was one of the founders of the congress of racial equality.

and as the report alluded to is economics. you take a school like the university of texas their athletic related revenues 163 million lsu 114000000. grambling's 6 million. and the schools predominantly feeders to the n.f.l. only 40 million. those are the main implements right no --elements that are hue hbc schools. >> i grew up in the south and if you talk to the older people the worst thing that happened was the hbcu. we are not talking about the best athletes. the wheels start in giving money to the athletic programs. the alumni of those schools, some 6 of the best students dont go to the schools. they are going to the lsu's. a few years ago i had a defensive back who played at jacksonville and is now at detroit and was drafted from bethune. and the best thing that happened for the black athlete in the south was the integration of the colleges. the worst thing that happened to the hsbcu schools was the integration of the big colleges like the georges yea georgias a. it's had a real impark impact or ability to raise funds doug williams raised 11 millions $11. so

and of more competition from the universities and other places like hong kong singapore and how to deal with this helmet. sure and this is not unique to him and yelled yummy. i don't wanna think that and because it was fun of a common theme. mr education and the mission sounds cool so you can take over in picture two things it could to the amount of growth of the financial support to the two knew what to have a flexible for us already knew i was sleepy and i have to overcome to the yumminess in time indian fantastically and i'm getting so so yep we had to send to some sewing and says is no merit system the th that's changing now. oh and in the army and can take what we have and that the sting which cheerful this is the arrangement with the feasting to perfect a professor to different kinds could then go with us at the link to the invisible sol wrinkle to the junta would contract. the sting which the pope received a phone call from taiwan to tunis that's one thing to go with we doing. can he go so that the un mission while fundraising is the one thing that i didn't have much expanded to

while his victims and the university try to move on. >> the school still faces claims from six other victims, penn state has already spent $50 million in the sandusky scandal on lawyers and policies to ensure it does not happen again. >> a federal judge a short time ago declared abortion restrictions unconstitutional and is blocking the enforcement of new laws. heidi zhou castro joins us from austin for more on the ruling, heidi? >> reporter: hey, tony, well, tomorrow there will not be abortions after 20 weeks. that ban that was passed by the last legislative session in texas remains in place. it was the one element not on tested in court this month. the other two elements that abortion clinics say would put a third of them out of business, those will not be enforced starting tomorrow. now the judge deemed one of those restrictions that required abortion doctors to get admitting privileges to a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic, the judge ruled that that was irrational and places illegal obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion. anthe judge upheld and added a caveat sa

and how we can change that." professor of hamline university school of law in st. paul, minnesota. when we come back, "ebony & ivy: race, slavery and the troubled history of america's universities." stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we turn to a new book 10 years in the making that looks at how some of the country's major universities -- harvard, yale, princeton, brown, williams, the university of north carolina to name just a few -- are drenched in sweat, and sometimes the blood, as africans brought here as slaves. the book is called, "ebony & ivy: race, slavery and the troubled history of america's universities." m.i.t. american history professor craig wilder reveals how the slave economy and higher education grew up together. that "the american campus to it as a silent monument to slavery." welcome to democracy now! talk about america's most elite universities. what relation do they have to slavery? >> i think there are multiple relationships. the first and probably most provocative is the relatio

universities so everybody fears. people who are going to lose their jobs and that public universities will be a thing of the past in a few months it is a desperate attempt to protect the higher education system but the greek government at this stage stands firm a deal struck. the e.u. and i.m.f. to secure more bailout funding means four thousand public sector jobs have to be axed by the end of the year and another twenty five thousand posts have to be redeployed although it isn't going to happen without a fight while this latest demonstration has ended here outside the ministry for administrative reforms which many people but i for the cutbacks all the way through the protests they have been singing chants including people will not pay and that history is written with resistance and they really do believe that expression themselves like they have done today can make a difference and three farmer. things. is not more stories online for us as well twenty four seven a course today getting a lot of heads cultural heritage up for sale reporting on italy planning to put its historic castles villas even of a nation island o