i'm jeremy anderson president of the ecs. it is such an honor to have so many of you with us here today in washington d.c. looking at the room and how the attendance has grown, it's great to know that we have a registration that is the secondesecond highest which shows the growth of ecs. >> over the next three days our conversations and dialogue will be covered with education policy and what we can do best for the states. that's the very nature of what ecs brings to you. i urge you to take advantage of the many education leaders that are here. governors, lieutenant-governors, chiefs, legislatures, board members, teachers of the year, so we together can share the education policies that can help us most in the states that we serve. the real value added that you will receive from ecs is not just in the research and the analysis that we do for you everyday, but it's rally in what you to engage us, the education of the commission to serve your state. i hope over the next three days you will be sure to engage any of the staff or e

[applause] jeremy anderson is going to moderate the session. i'm looking forward to another fabulous discussion. thank you very much. >> thank you so much governor sandoval. and i want to thank all of you for joining us on the panel here today. we're going to talk about some of the tough issues affecting higher ed and some of the opportunities you as leaders see. tow past decade higher education in america has truly evolved. evolved from serving elite students at highly elective research institutions to bag universal system focused on providing access to and serving a wide range of students. that transition happens while we have the convergence of economic demands and investment in higher education and things changing the way each of your tints does business so i'd like to start by asking each of you to highlight the one or two key issues you see affecting higher education today. janet napolitano i'll start with you. >> two. they are interrelated. one is that we need to do a much better job of talking about planing and demonstrating quality ad

ruby cramer, correspondent for buzzfeed, will dana, jack grey, senior producer at cnn, anderson cooper's 360, and jeremy. here to act as the emcee is ben smith who was hastings last employer and editor-in-chief at buzzfeed. since joining the company in january 2012, ben has built a newsroom of over 150 appropriators and editors, led expansion of over 20 content articles and built a team across the world. he has run for "the wall street journal" -- written for "the wall street journal", the los angeles times, slate, "the new york post" and the new republic. ben will join us on stage in just a moment, but first, a short audio clip from the book. >> introduction. why i write. finish my name is michael m. hastings, and and i'm in my 20s. i'm sitting in a studio apartment on the lower east side in manhattan, second floor overlooking or chard and bloomington. there's snow dropping by the streetlights. it's three a.m., and i just got off work. my magazine has a policy; a little item in the 57-page human resources manual called the outside activities clause. it prevents employees from publishing journalism with

. >> jeremy anderson is going to moderate the session. i'm looking forward to another fabulous discussion. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, governor sandoval. i want to thank you all of you for joining us on the panel here today. we will talk about some of the tough issues that are affecting higher education and hopefully some of the country r opportunities that you as leaders see. over the past decade higher education in america has truly evolved. evolved over multiple decades from serving elite students to being a universal system providing access to and serving a wide range of students. that transition happens while we have the convergence of college affordability concerns that are changing the way each of your institutions and entities does business. i would like to start the session but asking each of you to highlight the one o two issues you see effecting education today. president napolitano, why don't you start with you. >> i will say two. they are interrelated. one is that we need to do a much better job of talking abou