dr. kirwan you've spent a better part of your degree advocating for access across all lines. >> well, one of the things we've done is we established a goal to do what we call, close the achievement gap. each of our institutions is measured in part each year on their ability to reduce the retention rate and completion rate between the student body as a whole and under representative minorities and low income students. it's amazing if you establish a goal like that and start measuring results, how much progress you can make. the other thing -- there are any number of initiatives, activities that one should embrace in this regard but one of the things i feel most keenly about is the emperative for providing more need based aid. we are not in a time when we should allow our institutions to buy students who can afford to go to college anyway. we need to devote more and more of our financial aid resources within our institutions and our states to support students who have financial needs. so those are two things that i would mention that i feel have made a difference in maryland. we've increase