hi, i am gloria collins. i am a lecturer in the english department. i have been a lecturer here for 35 years and i have also taught at local community colleges, san jose city college, evergreen valley college and for many years, west valley college. hi. my name is jennifer gonzalez and i am the correspondent for the show. i want to thank all of you for being here today and i think it would help the audience if we started by explaining the differences in terms. in the academic world we have professors who are tenured, we have professors who are part-time or adjunct. so jonathan, i know you are good at helping me explain that. just explain to the audience the differences. well if you go back 40 years, the majority of the faculty in the cal state university system like most universities, were full-time tenured faculty. and tenure provides job security, provides due process rights, provides academic freedom. and then because of a series of economic decisions underfunding, especially public universities over the last 50 years, there's been a decline in ten

also joining us, gloria brown marshall, associate professor of law at the john j. collins college of criminal justice. is his clarification not enough for you? >> it is confusing and it just makes the point that he's not ready to be president of the united states. we deserve candidates who have at least a passing familiarity with the constitution. when you have someone on national tv saying that he wouldn't support a muslim for public office, he's going in direct violation of article 6 of the constitution. >> in his comments you heard him say that he believes that the american people are not ready for a muslim president, that he just doesn't believe the american people are at that point. when he makes this assertion, obviously you know there's polling out that some would point to that in some way backs up what he is saying, perhaps that they're not closed to the faith but the idea of americans even wanting someone in the white house who doesn't believe in god is something that the polling shows would be resisted by some. >> when john f kennedy ran for president he was a ca

gloria estefan. >>>> so thank you, done franciso for all of the joy and the entertainment that you brought into our lives for some years. you will be missed. >> >> sreenivasan: best-selling author jackie collins has died. her racy novels sold 500 million copies around the world. her best known was 1983's" hollywood wives," which sold 15 million copies and became a tv mini-series. collins died of breast cancer in los angeles. she was 77. last night, the newshour's gwen ifill was in charleston, south carolina, hosting a town hall special, engaging the community on issues of race and conflict following the killing of nine churchgoers there in june. here's a look at "america after charleston": >> many of the conversations that we have are surface level. i agree that bringing down the flag is a momentous occasion, but what we've learned in the past year is not that black lives matter, but black deaths matter. >> sreenivasan: "america after charleston" airs tomorrow night at 9pm on pbs. >> and finally, two americans held hostage in yemen for the past six months are free. scott darden who worked as a security consultant were captured in march fighting the enemy government. tonight they arrived in th