i want to thank president kerwin and the american university family for hosting us here today. 52 years ago, president kennedy, at the height of the cold war, addressed this same university on the subject of peace. the berlin wall had just been built. the soviet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. less than 20 years after the end of world war ii, the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today, it's hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists here in the united states argued that we had to take military action against the soviets, to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view, included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead, he pro

kerwin >> howard l. kestenbaum >> douglas d. ketcham ruth ellen ketler >> ruth ellen ketler >> boris khalif >> sarah khan >> taimour firaz khan >> rajesh khandelwal >> seilai khoo >> michael vernon kiefer >> satoshi kikuchihara >> andrew jay-hoon kim >> lawrence d. kim >> mary jo kimelman >> heinrich kimmig >> karen ann kinkade. >> amy r. king >> andrew m. king >> lucille teresa king >> robert king jr. >> lisa king-johnson >> brian k. kinney. >> takashi kinoshita >> chris michael kirby >> howard barry kirschbaum >> glenn davis kirwin >> helen kittle. >> richard joseph klares >> peter anton klein >> alan david kleinberg >> karen joyce klitzman >> ronald philip kloepfer >> steven a. knapp. >> eugueni kniazev >> and my brother bernard. you're in our hearts always and in our thoughts. and when we look at joe and lexi, we see you are very much alive. we love you and we miss you, my big little brother, and i see you brought the sun. you're smiling on us. god bless you. >> and my older brother alexander ortiz, who we call alex. your fr

chancellor kerwin repeatedly said that it is a national disgrace that students and families coming from the lowest quartile of income graduate 10%, 9% to 10% chance of knrauding college, whereas students from the upper income quartile graduated 85% to 90%. that's just unsustainable as a society. while there are many and complex reasons why more low income students do not complete a college degree, obviously, the volume of financial aid dollars, the efficacies of the programs that make these programs available are critical to expanding the success rates of these students. as you know, there's roughly 7,000 students of higher education that participate in the federal pell grant and/or federal student loan programs. many of these participate in one or more of the seog, federal work study, and federal perkins loan programs. i'll speak to the three programs and turn my attention to the various trio programs. let me start by noting that there are very positive impacts of these programs. i know there are proponents of rolling a lot of the programs into one loan, one grant, one work, to make th

i want to thank president kerwin and the american university family for hosting us here today. 52 years ago, president kennedy, at the height of the cold war, addressed this same university on the subject of peace. the berlin wall had just been built. the soviet union had tested the most powerful weapons ever developed. china was on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. less than 20 years after the end of world war ii, the prospect of nuclear war was all too real. with all of the threats that we face today, it's hard to appreciate how much more dangerous the world was at that time. in light of these mounting threats, a number of strategists here in the united states argued that we had to take military action against the soviets, to hasten what they saw as inevitable confrontation. but the young president offered a different vision. strength, in his view, included powerful armed forces and a willingness to stand up for our values around the world. but he rejected the prevailing attitude among some foreign policy circles that equated security with a perpetual war footing. instead, he pro