that's a retore cal statement. we have to give staff time watch is three months? staff is asking are few time. how can you ignore that? if you want to meet with staff, they're happy to meet with you. i think share what they're working on. am i wrong? >> unless i'm missing something, i keep looking at commissioner driscoll, you stated that by april, they should come back with the definition of what we were going to be looking at so that we all had a clear understanding at what was going forward from that point. is that correct? >> yes. and outline how they would plan -- outline how they would plan to do all these additional items that commissioner cohen talked about. not to come back with all these answers. that might take more than six months. just one example, the issue of hiring someone to do this work. i think this may be a job that has to be agreed to by the union , not just human resources, you go through that whole process, that's three months. easy. but you can put that in the work plan to hire someone you go to all those lists of tasks, that's what the wor

what are we doing in our universities and graduate programs to train young historians in verbal, retore cal skills and media skills to bring their history to broader publics. >> i'm thrilled to say we've already had one successful history communication course taught at the graduate level at the university of massachusetts a. amherst, was highly successful. and then there are three more history communication courses coming online in 2018 at universities across the country. it came about as a result of two workshops that were held in 2016. an initial workshop held at umass amherst had about 30 journalists science communicators coming together to build a curriculum that would model what the science programs have done but apply to history. there was a follow-up workshop in washington, d.c. in august of 2016 that really put the meat on the bones of that and actually spelled out week by week how the course would unfold and you can find that course at history communication.com. our website for the history communication movement. so any and all of you who are in universities and would like to bring