seculo received his phd from regent university, with a dissertation on american legal history. he's an honors graduate from mercer law school, where he served on the mercer law review. mr. thomas h. dupre is a member of the firm's litigation department and it's appellate and constitutional law practice group. in 2013 and 2014, chambers and partners named mr. dupre one of the leading appellate lawyers in the united states. in 2014, mr. dupre argued and won by unanimous vote a landmark personal jurisdiction case in the supreme court. prior to joining gibson dunn, mr. dupre served as deputy attorney general in the department of justice, ultimately becoming the principal deputy assistant attorney genera attorney general. mary elena encapiea, detector of the national immigration law center, he is a public interest lawyer who specializes in advancing and protecting the lights of immigrant workers, particularly those who are undocumented. she has provided strategic assistance and training to thousands of social service providers, labor unions and community based organizations. she hol

seculo received his phd from regent university, with a dissertation on american legal history.he's an honors graduate from mercer law school, where he served on the mercer law review. mr. thomas h. dupre is a member of the firm's litigation department and it's appellate and constitutional law practice group. in 2013 and 2014, chambers and partners named mr. dupre one of the leading appellate lawyers in the united states. in 2014, mr. dupre argued and won by unanimous vote a landmark personal jurisdiction case in the supreme court. prior to joining gibson dunn, mr. dupre served as deputy attorney general in the department of justice, ultimately becoming the principal deputy assistant attorney general. mary elena encapiea, director of the national immigration law center, she is a public interest lawyer who specializes in advancing and protecting the lights of immigrant workers, particularly those who are undocumented. she has provided strategic assistance and training to thousands of social service providers, labor unions and community based organizations. she holds a juris docto

also want to thank some very important people, the board of regents at the university of michigan. i want to thank the school president, jim hack it, the athletic director, for having the confidence in me -- the confidence they've shown in me to bring me here to the university of michigan. also want to thank brady and laura hope, my very good friends, for their outstanding service at the university of michigan. they have honored the university of michigan football program, and i'm pleased to have such a tremendous foundation to stand on, and that foundation was built by brady, by lloyd carr, by gary poller, by bo schembechler. by the men and women who have served the university of michigan for over a century, for more than a century they've been playing football at the university of michigan. and all the former players, their families, i feel like i'm standing on this foundation that is just so rock solid. i feel like i'm standing on the shoulders of tall, tall men, and i can't thank you enough. i can't thank the alumni enough. the students, the faculty, for the enthusiasm that you

lawmakers will consider a bill to give them the final say on any policy approved by the university of california board of regentsr of state senators introduced the legislation coming amid growing anger over a plan by regions to increase tuition by up to 5 percent more a year over the next five years coming two weeks after three campus chancellors were given 20 percent races. the regents are not listening to the concerns of students. >>> president obama will announce his close for secretary of defense in an hour and a half, expected this man, ashton carter, will be nominated to replace chuck hagel would resigned last week. he insisted yesterday that he was not forced out and it was simply the right time. carter is a physicist once the pentagon's chief weapons buyer. hagel will remain in the post physical carter is confirmed by the senate. >>> had could be a few showers it is the afternoon commute that should concern you. >>> we will have showers and scattered thunderstorms. we have drizzle this morning. we have fog. you notice the drizzle is not pick up that well. we tend to overshoot it with the drizzle is low h

university gets more money from the state. a group of protesters occupied wheeler hall after a regents committee voted last month to approve those increases. >>> 7:10. today, sam liccardo will officially be de -- be declared the san jose mayor. liccardo beat dave cortese by about 2700 votes. questions were raised about the tally due to the departure of the registrar's i. tinkths manager the -- i.t. manager the day before the election. he will be sworn in january 6th. >>> a state lawmaker from san mateo has introduced legislation that would overhaul california's system for recounting votes in tightly contested elections. the bill from democratic assemblyman kevin mullin would require the state to pay for a full recount in any statewide election when the margin of victory is 1/10 of 1% or less. mullin claims the june primary in the state controller's race highlighted flaws in the current system. >>> 7:11. hatching today, an online campaign asking you to donate to nonprofits on what's being called giving tuesday. the i day was started as an alternative to black friday and cyber monday shopping. there's several ways to give. crowdri

had various titles during his public service career as chairman of the board of regents at the university system, lieutenant governor of the state of nevada and finally -- maybe finally -- as mayor of the city of reno. bob was one of those folks who is blessed with a vision that does not have many shades of gray. it's pretty black and white with the mayor when you talk to him, whether it's informally, formally or whatever. words like gosh, gee whiz are things not used in his vocabulary much. he possesses an incredible volume to his voice, uses it often and is more than happy on any occasion to share his thought, but bob also had the support of an outstanding family. his wife, partner in life, nancy, sons, family has been key in terms of the fabric of the community in northern nevada for about half a century now or more. in the resort hospitality industry, bob was involved with properties, ownership, management or whatever in reena, carson city and that little town where they do a little bit of the gaming business in the south known as las vegas. outstanding participant in all of those. a

university, this is called the academic building. but today, it almost got a new and way less generic name. today, the board of regentst to rename that central building on the texas a&m campus, so instead of being called the academic building, it was going to be called the governor rick perry building. james richard perry, aka rick perry, class of '72, seen here in his texas a&m cadet uniform. the plan for the name change tame kaim as a surprise to current texas a&m students. they were only told about the name change a couple of days ago. students reportedly were not psyched about a guy who had a 2.2 gpa. earlier this week, the governor said he was excited by the honor of having the building named after him. but now after the students protested it's not going to happen. governor perry is trying to say it was his decision. he didn't want that building named after him afterall. but honestly, he said just a couple of days ago how psyched he was. if the students hadn't protested, it was going to happen. now because they protested, it will not happen. and if that's happening in texas at rick perry's alma mater, who here th

universities do very little. in ohio that ged programs are now under the board of regents. so they have taken a step to try and pull those people into the system. they have taken that step but that's been left out of your of the conversation. thank you for letting have so much time. >> guest: it's interesting i wrote a story not along that long ago about a project called the talent dividend price. .. the rate around the country, communities in ohio were the winners. schools around ohio, they had made a big effort to get more students to graduate and get college degrees. there are efforts in communities to improve this college going rate in some cases. >> jim also bringing up the topic again about switching majors, taking a longer time to graduate college. eric talked about students switching majors and taking a long time as the cause of increasing student that when we visited and eight as pt of our here's a bit of what he had to say. >> but if you dig a little bit deeper, you see that there are really two problems that i think have an enormous impact. one of those is that w

board of regents close to clark kerr with the idea that they could use the allegations against kerr to convince other regions to fire him. informers in ited the administration, the university administration. > one of the most astonishing things i found in my research was the extent to which the fbi in university affairs over a long period of time and the extent to which the informers at every level of the campus community rom student activists to the board.to a he failed. said as long as clark wn was governor, kent would remain as president. other fbi over and officials viewed this as a breath of fresh air. an ally eved they had in the governor's mansion and closely with ronald reagan to crack down on student protesters and radical professors. >> so what happened? >> the document shows over the following years, what happened first thing reagan does after he's elected is to hone the fbi and request this briefing which hoover personally authorize authorizes. two weeks later, the first board board ofs meeting, the regents votes to fire clark kerr. power shifted because reagan was now a member and he made several appointments to it. the fbi documents that was released indicate

universities do very little. in ohio, ged programs are under the board of regents.aken a step to pull those people into the system. they have taken that step. that has been left out of your conversation. thank you for letting me have so much time here at classless pick up on any of his comments. -- time. host: let's pick up on any of his comments. guest: the rate around the country, communities in ohio were the winners. schools around ohio, they had made a big effort to get more students to graduate and get college degrees. there are efforts in communities to improve this college going rate in some cases. >> jim also bringing up the topic again about switching majors, taking a longer time to graduate college. eric talked about students switching majors and taking a long time as the cause of increasing student that when we visited and eight as part of our big ten tour. here's a bit of what he had to say. >> if you dig a little bit deeper you see there are really two problems i think have an enormous impact. one of those is that we have too many students and are borro

university of georgia researchers looked at more than 600 students from grades 6 to 12. they say girls are likely to exhibit relation relational of gresham like spreading rumors and rejecting appears. >> catherine: by regent based researchers say the boys do the same thing and would more often they were also more physically aggressive the study also says aggressive behavior is at its worst in middle school and declined the students moved through high school. >> catherine: san jose says down one of the largest homeless can't encampments in the country will tell you what's happening to the people used to call the joggle the home. jungle [chris]still smoking up a storm? [tom]yeah.pathetic,isn't it? [chris] ever try to... [tom] quit?of course! my best time was six days. the worst was ...uh...23.4 seconds. [chris] so can i ask you... [chris & tom] why are you still smoking? [tom] [sarcastic] "it's so much fun." [chris]why not call the smokers' helpline? the program's free,and... [tom]and they'll tell me..."you oughta quit." [chris] not so. just tell them you're ready to quit. then,they'll tell you how. [tom] really? you wouldn't have that number on you,would you? >> catherine: a new video of the last minutes o

the university of louisiana at lafayette press and he is the board of regents professor in history atuniversity of louisiana at lafayette. if you haven't caught your breath yet he's also the managing editor of louisiana history. somehow in and among all those many hours and obligations he squeezed in the writing of the first scholarly biography of russell long a united states senator who are deeply in his longevity and influence became more powerful than any previous louisiana politician and this includes his father huey long and his mother who served as senator many years ago on the campus of the university of arkansas where he shared space but do not know each other. historian randall woods pointed out how little the life of russell long had been treated by historians held loud and proud i am that dr. martin has corrected this and he chose university press of mississippi to help him tell this story. michael s. martin everyone. [applause] >> thank you steve. it's my pleasure to be here at the louisiana book festival. this is now my fifth year in a row that i've attended this and the