guest is mitch daniels, the president of purdue university and a former governor of indiana. f you would like to call in and join our conversation for students, the number is (202) 585-3880. for parents, (202) 585-3881. .ducators, (202) 585-3882 indiana residents, (202) 585-3883. first caller this morning is john, a purdue graduate. i graduated from purdue university in 1966. i'm coming up on my 50 year anniversary. i was looking at your numbers on your tuition and i remember when i was there, it was $149 every semester for tuition. you could have room and board and i lived in the residence halls there for less than $1000 a year. amazing. i managed to make it through by just working. i did not take out any loans or anything like that. it really interesting when you see what people have to pay. more for thatng money now? . got a bachelors degree i spent 28 years and air force. i'm just wondering, what are those students today getting that i did not get when i went there paying less than $1000 a year? guest: you're asking exactly the right question. one that did not get asked mu

you majored in zoology at the university of kentucky. had a masters at purdue. then a ph.d. lular, molecular and environmental biology at the university of ar arizona. what's a career track for a ari college president? >> well, i'm not sure there is a career track for a college ther' president. i certainly came up through the ranks as a professor. i think once i got to college, the joke in my family, who, of course, no one had ever been to college before, that once she got there, she never left. t as far as my family's concernedc i'mol still there.sh still there.e . it's a joke, in fact, that i'm l still in college.a jo only it doesn't cost anybody any money anymore. i guess that's probably a good thing.ore. but my career track probably wao what would have once been considered typical for a college president. came up through the ranks, starting as an assistant professor. went through the ranks to full professor. took on some administrative jobs along the way, serving as a department head, dean of a very large college, and provost at purdue university, and now with the privile

i was speaking at a college in indiana, purdue university, and several high school students who write for their high school newspapers drove several hours to hear me speak. i talked about the state of civil liberties in the united states and the way these russians had taken place. they interviewed me after for their high school newspaper. one of the things they said, they said a lot more interesting things than i did because it really has an impact. one thing they put it out as they said, look, you keep talking about all these changes to the civil liberties landscape and the way in which we have freedoms in this country, but one of the things you keep talking about is you make it seem like there are these great changes, there was the world pre-9/11 and now post-9/11. they told me for people who are our age, 15, 16 years old, we were four years old at the time of 9/11. really, there is no pre-9/11 world we know. our political consciousness has been shaped almost exclusively by the post-9/11 world. as is all we know. what we consider extremist and radical and threatening is for them inc

administrative jobs ape long the way including serving as a department head, dean of a and provost at purdue university before having the privilege to serve now in last seven plus years as the president of the university of iowa. my big ten roots are strong. perhaps that comes from my mother's roots from going back to indiana. job. sally mason, your how much time is spent fundraising. how much time is spent being the administrat administrator, etc., etc.? the job of a college president today is very, very different from a couple of years ago. midst of a large capital campaign, the largest in the history of the state of iowa, certainly the largest in history of the university of the process of raising $1.7 billion in the state of iowa, forever more campaign. about $1.3 billion on the way to $1.7 billion. a lot of that money is being raised to provide scholarships students, to provide professorships, infrastructure, the excellence of the university of iowa to continue well on in to the future. it. joy to be able to connect with so many alumni, literally all across alumni the country and around the world

currently she's assistant professor of anthropology and african-american studies at purdue universitye received her ph.d. in cultural anthropology from princeton university and is a graduate from the school of foreign service at georgetown university. she has published numerous writings and has also worked on artistic endeavors including as a consultant for a documentary and as a published poet. you can also find her on the cover of a magazine this month where the focus is on discussions about race in the muslim community. a brooklyn native, she's unashamedly black, and unapologetically muslim. please welcome her. >> i want to first thank you for the great introduction. also everyone for the invitation to participate in this conversation tonight. so should i read the question? here, read the question. >> i forgot to ask the question. what i wanted to know is what is the basic premise of culture. not just sort of the basic premise of culture, but jumping into our present day and exploring what we're currently seeing with the next wave of american muslims. it seems as though they are te

one of the most terrifying studies that's been done was dope at purdue university. they wanted to find out what's the effect of football on high school students? after all, high school students' skeletal and neurological systems aren't fully developed, and the game has gotten more and more violent over the years for simple physics reasons, and so the players are bigger and faster, and so their collisions are more violent, right? the average high school player now at a big program probably weighs more than a pro 20 years ago. >> yeah, that's true. >> they're much bigger, they train year round, they're faster, they are, essentially, more effective missiles. and so these researchers put sensors inside the helmets of two dozen players, and they wanted to see what's the effect of concussion since we're constantly told football has a concussion problem. okay, so what's the effect? they found a controlled group of kids who had not gotten concussions, and they monitored their brain activity. here's where it gets very dark. what they found is that the kids who had concussion

administrative jobs ape long the way including serving as a department head, dean of a and provost at purdue universityfore having the privilege to serve now in last seven plus years as the president of the university of iowa. my big ten roots are strong. perhaps that comes from my mother's roots from going back to indiana. job. sally mason, your how much time is spent fundraising. how much time is spent being the administrat administrator, etc., etc.? the job of a college president today is very, very different from a couple of years ago. midst of a large capital campaign, the largest in the history of the state of iowa, certainly the largest in history of the university of the process of raising $1.7 billion in the state of iowa, forever more campaign. about $1.3 billion on the way to $1.7 billion. a lot of that money is being raised to provide scholarships students, to provide professorships, infrastructure, the excellence of the university of iowa to continue well on in to the future. it. joy to be able to connect with so many alumni, literally all across alumni the country and around the world who

and later purdue university president mitch daniels looks at higher education cost and academic standards. plus your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal is live every morning at 7 eastern on c-span. 2014 debate coverage continues on thursday between lee terry and brad ashford and then sunday the iowa debate happens. then campaign 2014 more than a hundred debate for the control of congress. hearing on the inspector general's final report. the house veteran affair committee heard from general richard griffin and whistle blower and former va director sam foot. this panel is two hours and 40 minutes. >>> this hearing will come to order and i thank everybody for attending this hearing which will dpam examine the oig report on the phoenix va issue. i would like to ask consent, who is not here, that our colleague from arizona be allowed to join us here to address this issue. without objection so ordered. also, members, we do have a series of votes that will start at 1:00. i apologize for that. this hearing was moved from its original time because of the joint session of

who intersects race and religion of popular culture and assistant professor of the apology at purdue university, she received her ph.d. from cultural anthropology and as a graduate from the school of foreign service at georgetown. she published numerous scholarly writings and artistic director endeavors and as a published poet living is long outloud. you can also find her on the cover of the magazine this month for the focus is on the in depth look of discussions about race and the american muslim community. and apologetically muslim. please welcome. [applause] >> i first want to say thank you for the great introduction and also for the invitation to participate in this conversation tonight. should i read the question? with. >> what i wanted to know is what is the basic premise of culture? not just the basic premise but jumping into present-day what we currently see with the next wave of american muslims it seems they are testing boundaries to express themselves that would be quite controversial. what is going on? >> i can answer the question to address the misconception that dominates the way

currently she's assistant professor of anthropology and african-american studies at purdue university. she received her ph.d. in cultural anthropology from princeton university and is a graduate from the school of foreign service at georgetown university. she has published numerous writings and has also worked on artistic endeavors including as a consultant for a documentary and as a published poet. you can also find her on the cover of a magazine this month where the focus is on discussions about race in the muslim community. a brooklyn native, she's unashamedly black and unapoll jetically muslim. >> i want to first thank you for the great introduction. also everyone for the invitation to participate in this conversation tonight. so should i read the question? here, read the question. >> i forgot to ask the question. what i wanted to know is what is the basic premise of culture. not just sort of the basic premise of culture, but jumping into our present day and exploring what we're currently seeing with the next wave of american muslims. it seems as though they are testing boundaries

after that, purdue university president looks at public policy higherthat impact education costs."washington journal" is live tuesday at 7:00 eastern on c-span. baker on theade recent data breaches at home depot, target, and jpmorgan chase. >> it is all of the above. we have worked with law enforcement agencies who have busted down doors and drag people out of their basements literally. in fairlyrticipated large-scale arrests of multiple individuals that are highly connected, very well organized. they each have individual specialties and roles. someone writes malicious software and someone else knows how to launder the money just like physical organized crime. others are working on behalf of the government. there are offices and recon photos. they go to that building. their job is to hack into companies and steal information on behalf of a government. i have seen some photos of where anuropean towns insane number of people drive lamborghinis and things like this. pam, fakethat is the s pharmaceuticals, fraud, all of these things. it is staggering amounts of money that are traced b

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we will be on campus at purdue university in indiana. -- at wednesday we will be at northwestern university and then on thursday michigan state university. back heree you right tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. have a great day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> we have several live events coming up at 4:00 today treasury set terry jack lew -- it's treasury secretary jack lew talks about climate change. shortly after that cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer moderates a discussion on combating isis and other terrorist groups. now what are in those 38 pages. host: let's try the philadelphia her latest book on private military and security companies. our campaign 2014 coverage continues at 7:40 eastern with live coverage of tig

in earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences at purdue university. he came to my office as an american geophysical union congressional science fellow whose research specialty was the development of sophisticated models to help build greater understanding of the past and present and future effects of carbon pollution on our climate. he lent his considerable scientific expertise and analysis to these floor speeches, he also did research for ladies and gentlemen and -- legislation and prepared for works in the public works committee. since we somehow weren't keeping him busy enough, he managed to find the time to publish a peer-reviewed article this summer in the prestigious journal "nature" on the climb attic conditions surrounding the origination of the antarctic ice cap. aaron said this week he gained a sense of humor working here which is fitting for a scientist having to deal with this body and its -- in its present state. but i gained the benefit of aaron's hard work and gracious spirit, and the senate and the american people gained the benefit of

that there.ieve mitch daniels, purdue university president and former governor of indiana. thanks for being with us this morning. guest: thank you. host: that's all the time we have this morning. be sure to tune in for another edition of "washington journal" tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] ♪ >> and a live picture from outside the white house this morning where the president is expected to speak before flying to new york for the u.n. general assembly meeting. military officials say the u.s. launched eight airstrikes. the military also used air power against al qaeda-affiliated group that had imminent attacks plotted against the u.s.. the associated press is reporting that the u.s. and five arab nations attacked in nighttime raids using land and sea-based u.s. aircraft, as well as tomahawk cruise missiles launched from navy ships in the red sea and the northern persian gulf. washingtonorts that informed bashar al-assad's thernment hours before american-led coalition counter the extremis

this was a project initially launched at purdue, gallup and purdue university.us a chance to go out and measure where our alumni are at any point that we choose. five years out, 10 years out, 15 years out, etc.. what is important to me is it goes the not just measuring those individuals. it says how much salary are you making. it is good assessing things such as your satisfaction with life, your relationships, where you feel you are in the world, how you are prepared to deal with issues of employment and other things as you move forward. that is an example of an output measure, and i think when we have those output measures defined, that is the time that we switch the dialogue to instead of being fixated on the input variables, that we look at these output variables as how we measure how good an institution we really are. host: mr. steinmetz, here is another issue that is being debated here in washington and also on college campuses, and that is sexual assault. here is the headline in "the wall street journal," "campus sexual assaults draw greater extrude me --

he attended college at purdue university in indiana and later received his master of business administration and his law degree from my alma mater, the law school at the university of alabama. a true outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting, fishing, scuba diving, and almost any sport, judge mcmacon always wanted to live on alabama's golf coast. he got that chance when he moved to mobile to serve as an assistant district attorney. for them mobile district attorney and now presiding circuit judge, charlie braddock. while working in the d.a. office, he taught criminal justice at the university of south alabama. he eventually went on to private practice until being encouraged by many people, including me, to run for district judge in 1986. after winning his first election, judge mcmacon would go on to serve as a district judge in mobile county for 25 years. he was instrumental in the creation of the mobile county drug court, which helps gives those struggling with drug addiction, opportunities to beat their addiction and better themselves. that drug program became a model for other counties in alabama a

universities go out of business, many futurists say higher education will become much more personalized. >> you might take, you know, a law class from harvard. you might take an engineering class from purdueu might take an economics class from m.i.t. and you have the option to sort of curate your own education. >> reporter: it's not all doom and gloom. >> it's a positive story that represents, you know, a whole new level of access for students and opportunities for people who couldn't afford it otherwise. >> reporter: online courses like moocs are certainly already opening up opportunities for students all over the world to take all kinds of classes. but research has shown that many people taking those online courses today often don't complete them, mandy. brian. >> well, let's continue this discussion. shall we? because i've got a bit of a different take here. online learning, right, forgets one thing. the people part of college. the true meaningful deep emotional human experience kind of like this. >> there are a lot of great guys. so don't feel you have to meet everybody. we just want you to enjoy yourselves while you're here. >> let's bring in herb greenberg, reality check editor at t