the honorable treasurer for the state of illinois, michael fredericks. [applause] and auditor general, frank martino. [applause] also joining us on the floor today is the chief of staff to the governor of this great states, ms. ann cabrera is here. also joining us, deputy governor for the budget and economy, mr. andy menar is here. [applause] also joining us is senior advisor to the governor for policy and legislation, ms. emily miller. [applause] and joining us on the floor today, the governor of the office of the office of management and budget, ms. alexis stearns. [applause] the chair recognizes the house majority leader. >> mr. speaker, i move for the adoption of joint session resolution number one. >> mr. clark, please read the resolution. >> be if the result of the committee be appointed for from the house by the speaker of the house and from the senate by the president of the senate agreed upon by governor jb pritzker in attempting to address the assembly. >> representative gable has more for the adoption of the resolution. those in favor please s

michael: right. frederick: i very much respect what you're saying, but to the extent that the danger is that there are social norms, that there are ideological blinders on campus, in professional associations, how do you as a leader of a liberal arts institution make sure that faculty are encouraged and embracing that broader inquiry you're talking about? michael: that's a really good and i can't say i have an answer to that that i'm fully satisfied with myself. this is something that i think a lot about, and i'd start by saying: when i talk to faculty, they do express some of this concern. actually, a lot of what they talk about is not just the atmosphere from their peers but actually from students. i will say one of the challenges of this environment of mistrust and anxiety that i've been describing is a sense that faculty have if they say something that gets judged in a certain way, that it will be brought to the attention of administrations, in a it will be circulated on social media. there are various web

if we go over by 30 students, we have tents on the quad -- frederick: again. michael: exactly. no, no, no, we had no tents. too soon. i know. [laughter] we do a lot of modeling, as every campus does. some of the things we predicted in terms of student behavior turned out to be inaccurate, and one of the things we did not realize -- basically, we have been doing a lot of things for a long time to recruit a more racially diverse class that are race-neutral. socioeconomic diversity, working with certain partner organizations that work with certain public schools, so we were kind of in the pool with both feet. what happened last year is a whole bunch more people got into the pool. it's a bad metaphor. i'm not sure i'm going to find my way out of it. basically, the competition for some of the students we were trying to recruit just got much stiffer. we learned a little bit from that about our modeling we think this year and we will see what happens. it is also the size of amherst, and amherst is small. for those of you who don't know, we have an entering class of about 475. we are s