we've got to keep protecting and investing in programs like trio and gera and youth challenge and career academies, things that reach people to me as early as possible, at middle school and try to embed in them that aspiration that, expectation that so many of us are you just blessed with. that is not an expectation that will necessarily be there for a child born into a family where no one has ever gone to college. but we have that power. we have the power through the programs we do, through the excellent teachers who inspire, through the after school programs that will inspire children not just in a particular moment or a particular course or particular scorecard, but about what they can be. colleges can play a role in reaching down early into the neighborhoods where they -- where they exist. and helping those children come to their campus, see what is possible. have a mentor, can have somebody who believes in them, change not just their test score for a grade but their expectations for what they can and should achieve. all of us, some of us are lucky enough to be born with that gift. a