[applause] and eduardo padron come he is the president of miami-dade community college. [applause] well, welcome. we are here to take a look at how young people on college campuses are responding to so many of the themes we heard raised earlier by david cohen and by richard. i wanted to begin by asking chancellor phoebe haddon of rutgers who is by the way a scholar of implicit bias and raised in society how she sees her role as chancellor in dealing with race and the changing face of race on america's college campuses. >> thank you, juan. many say i've spent the last three weeks in a sort of surreal journey took him to talk about this issue. three weeks ago i was in south africa, and i was traveling with our students. and we arrived in cape town university and spoke to students, the dean of the law school at cape town is an indian woman who actually was being at albany before going to become the dean at cape town. wonderful story. we talked about student unrest, and their come if you don't know, there is great unrest about inequality. it is about income inequality. it's

so i just want to ask you to join me in thanking eduardo padron from miami-dade, joining me in thanking nailah harper-malveaux from yale. join me in thanking deray mckesson. and join me in thanking phoebe haddon from rutgers camden. thank you all for coming. >> hey. thank you so much. >> stick around because we're going to have a very quick stage change. >> okay. let's bring the next panel up. we -- as we transition to the next panel, which will be on the changing demographics in large cities, we're pleased to welcome to moderate this the man who is -- while it is -- while al jazeera is still on the air, the anchor of "america's inside story" there. he has a distinguished journalistic career as the chief national correspondent for the pbs "newshour" and before that, the host of national public radio's "talk of the nation." the author of three books, many artic articles, and chapters. he's a household name and really a household voice. familiar voice to all of us. please welcome ray suarez who will introduce his panel. >> thanks a lot, charlie. i was really pleased to be asked to moderat

to presidento turn eduardo padron and ask you as the president of college campus tell us a bit about how you do prisons of racism on the campuses. drone: well, i feel very strongly that colleges and universities are not only the best hope, but the best opportunity to change the whole situation with race -- i think universities need to move into the 21st century. this will allow people to reach the american dream. i cannot think of a better equalizer in society today. when you thinkck back to when americans could make a good wage. and all it universities selectivity,ty and most americans received the american dream by working hard. today that is not possible. the american dream today requires that all in the 21st century acquire knowledge. so, going to college today and being able to be part of the inclusion process is a must if we as a nation want to be able to prosper. that is what really has it makesnd that is why the work we do at universities so important. our universities and colleges well-meaningany people, you know the effort to include minorities, if you looks and say 1980's