we work hard to make the university affordable. so for example, if you come from a family who has income of $30,000 a year or less, that means that the expectation is your family will not contribute to the cost of your education. and we package financial aid grants and scholarships that more than cover the cost of tuition. so we're very affordable for students from very low income families and we grant that up and again give need-based financial aid to families who have adjusted gross income of up to $100,000 a year. unlike many of our competitors, we put financial aid on the table, recognizing that the cost of college is a burden to many families and we're eager to make it possible for their students to come to the university of minnesota. >> what about on the academic side, in terms of help for incoming freshmen who may not have excelled or they need a little bit more help. they have made it into the university but they face a fairly daunting fall schedule or whatever. what sort of resources does the university of minnesota offer?

of the university of wisconsin system. thank you for being here. let's begin with this distinction of being the president of the university of wisconsin's system. what does that mean? >> within the university of wisconsin system, greta, there's 13 four-year institutions and 13 two-year feeder institutions extension is in all 72 counties, in addition to that, there are 180,000 students throughout the system. 40,000 employees. it's roughly the sixth largest system in the united states, with about a $6 billion budget. it's pretty sizable higher education, public higher education operation. >> what does it mean that you are the president of the system as opposed to a president of just let's say the university of wisconsin, madison, of one site? >> part of the theory behind a system is that they're meant to coordinate and to develop state wide issues, issues that impact the whole state. and serve the institutions in a way that -- in terms of shared resources in helping them more effectively and cost effectively deal with some of

the university system pulled out $3.1 billion. in 1990, nelson mandel newly freed after 27 years behind bars spoke to some 58,000 people at the oakland coliseum where he thanked the crowd for the efforts to remove the apartide government of south africa. >> it is you, the people of oakland, the people of the bay area who have given me and my delegation the hope to continue to struggle. >>> when we come back on a second look. a political veteran sets aside her fear to show support to a protest to save a grove of trees right in front of memorial stadium. >> how do you get down? >> and later, protesters demand uc berkeley create an urban farm on a tract of land in albany. >>> for 649 days they perched high in the trees of the cal campus. tree sitters opposed to berkeley's plan to cut down 90 trees to build an athletic center. it all started in november of 2006 and for the next 21 months a dedicated group of tree sitters fought to get uc berkeley to abandon their plans to cut down all of those trees in front of the stadium. as david st

james linder to as the interim president of the university of nebraska lincoln s part of the big ten college tour. we kick that off this weekend. we will continue next week. here on ng series washington journal talking to university presidents about higher education issues. get your thoughts as well. we guided the lines by students, education -- educators, excuse me, and nebraska residents. 202-585-3880. parents, 202-585-3881. educators, 202-585-38882. and nebraska residents, 202-585-3883. an e-mail if you like. james linder is aboard our nebraska in lincoln, to talk about his university and issues of higher education. we'll begin with michael who's new jersey. michael, are you a former at the university of nebraska? caller: i want to comment on career resources providing for students. a lot of students in my xperience in the past felt as if their career service didn't offer them that much. you couple that with the fact they may not wholly be aware of all of the resources in addition to the fact that a lot lot ofents really lack a confidence in knowing themselves and how they belong i

whether there is other life in the universe. but at the same time, we are coming up with contradictory evidence. we have evidence of that really stands out of that worldview which is cosmic mediocrity. there are billions of other planets in the galaxy we didn't know that years ago but on the fringe of it, that's beautiful -- >> host: and it started with the copernicus complex finding that we are not the center of the solar system. >> guest: we can trace it back to that. of course the copernicus wasn't the first person to say that the earth might not be the center of everything. the idea goes way back to the ancient greek's. they thought that perhaps the earth was at the center of things that other greek philosophers didn't like that idea and it didn't make sense. copernicus's reading of the scientists were doing in the middle east at the time and he understood some of the history of ancient greek science but it didn't come to him in a flash. he assembled information that was already out there. some of the one hand we have evidenc

to revenues for the university? you were at the breakfast, my guess is maybe you were looking for potential donors? >> well, you know, at the university of iowa, we're one ot the fortunate schools where est athletics pays for itself. and again, a testament to the fan base that we have, the loyai fan base that we have, the support that they give to our t athletics department. our athletic students on who ar scholarship here, and there's 500 or more of these, they pay the full tuition back to us.ese. for every one of those student l athlete scholars that we have. that contributes obviously to we the bottom line of the university when it comes to our academic mission. to the we don't pay any taxpayer dollars. no taxpayer dollars go to no athletics of the university of t iowa. we're fortunate to be part of aw great conference, the big ten conference. and the revenues that we're ablh to get from ticket sales, from m tv contracts, all of that, we're able to pay for everything that we do in athletics. on the fund-raising s

here and in in the steady-state universe that's the same in time and space everywhere. it wasn't a big thing. we now think that obviously there was a big thing starting point for this universe. but a lot of the physicists began to see there are certain prophecies of the universe, this absolute strength of gratitude for the example and the absolute strength of electric magnetic forces. fundamental properties and the constants of nature that if you offered them a little bit could be very different so then you have to begin to ask it almost sounds a bit like a baseball public and but how likely is it for a universe to end up to all the great features that would lead to organisms like us and it can seem unlikely if this is the end of the universe that it is actually intimately related with the beginnings of what we call the idea of the multi-verse that there might be not just one universe like this but in an honest number of other universes. there's no evidence of this right now. it fits with a number of ideas and theoretical physics and the interesting thing about it is tha

director of the open university project. petersen-overton, budget lecturer of political science at lehman college, doctoral student at the cuny graduate center. this is democracy now! stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with aaron matÉ. show innd today massachusetts were two, activists were set to go on trauma and a for blocking a shipment of 40,000 tons of coal. they used their lobster boat to block a delivery of the coal to the brightpoint power station in somerset, massachusetts. they face charges stemming from their act of civil disobedience. in a surprise move, the bristol theyict attorney announced dropped colonel charges and reduced three other charges to civil disabilities -- offenses. robert,ision that kissed him and i, the assistant district attorneys who handle this case, reached today was a decision that certainly took tnto consideration the cos of the taxpayers in somerset, but was made with our concern for their children, the child

the universe is a dangerous place. you have to go with the flow. part of the difficulty is that these are all things they take on meeting after the event. so part of the arguments i make in the book as we can be sitting on another planet with a different history. i can be leaping around in my purple scaled skin and having the same interview and saying yes, if we hadn't had six moves around our planet, we wouldn't be here today. so there's a danger in this interpretation of things after-the-fact. one of the arguments i make is this is intriguing that apparently our existence complex is contingent on a number of fairly improbable things happening across the last 4 billion years. when you add it all up, it's extremely unlikely. that's only after the fact to make that. one of the arguments if you don't actually learn much at all. >> host: that you make via analogy of a baseball flying up into the stadium and you happen to be the one to catch it. i've been sort of seeming improbable, but then if you were to sort of wind the clock back, that could have l

the state. students in 000 total for indiana university. so comprehensively keeping in of them is ll obviously going to be difficult. have a good ly sense of the feel for the -- from the student body. have to say that the kind out of ourt has come students, i mentioned the culture of care initiative i talked about. they provide me with annual reports on a variety of agree nt areas that we on. and saw the quality of work that students.he host: i apologize -- guest: as good as any work coming oh it of faculty. we have to leave this answer with you. the president joining us now. mr. president, thank you. and it's a joint meeting to the house of representatives to hear from the ukrainian president taking place. live coverage on c-span. the speaker: the joint meeting will come to order. the chair appoints as members of the committee on the part of the house to escort president petro poroshenko into the chamber. the gentleman from california, mr. mccarthy, the gentleman from louisiana, mr. scalise, the gentlewoman from washington state, mrs. mcmor

the president of interest interest university talking about the impact of public policy on universities. then the islamic society of north america's discussion of muslim american culture and community. and later treasury secretary on the business tax code. we continue with our series on the impact that public policy issues have on higher education and the role of the big 10 conference. from "washington journal" this is 45 minutes. >>> this week we continue our month long series of interviewed with university presidents. it's in conjunction with the big 10 college tour. this morning the bus is on the campus of indiana university. on it we are joined by the president of indiana university, michael mcrobbie. thank you for joining us. >> delighted to be here and welcome to indiana university. >> thank you for the invitation. can we start, president, with your general thoughts before we talk about the details of the ho university, but your thoughts o the greatest challenges facing those in higher education today? >> oh, i would say that probably the greatest challenge in front of us is to co

and the stop of the university of nebraska lincoln. lk with the interim president issues.gher education all that right that have news update from c-span radio. it's 8:33 a.m. eastern time. well, secretary of state john for the in baghdad first high-level u.s. meeting minister.s new prime in a short visit today, the ecretary will urge iraqi prime minister to take quick steps to ease sectarian tensions in the majority nation. the secretary will offer help in dominated e sunni islamic state militancy that's overrun parts of northern iraq syria. the secretary's visit falls on the eve of a u.s. arab nation the islamicefeating state militants. isis will be the focus of the to want and remarks the associated press reports that ground troops are not part of the plan. obama plans to present a range of military and options in the public through his speech. he'll ask congress to authorize arming moderate syrian opposition forces and do things on his own as well, like possible air strikes against the syria as well as iraq. meanwhile, an independent

after the university of illinois urbana-champaign. trained the first architects in china at this university. you can find that i was an international student once. i came and i stayed and i believe many international students come and stay in this country. because of the opportunities. and we have over 5,000 freshman from the state of illinois. those are first stake holders. we have a lot of students of illinois over the last many years we have grown and we have taken out of state, not only international states but students from california we have a lot of students from california, new jersey and from around the country. so this is an international environment. we always say that our students can do study abroad, illinois students can do study abroad on campus. we are very proud that we have a global reputation. >> and i apologize, mr. adesida. we have to leave it there. >>> we continue with indiana university president michael mcrobbie. >> this morning, the c-span bus is on the campus of indiana university in bloomington. on it, we a

there's no other life in the universe is essentially or otherwise. so one of the themes in the book is taking that kind of argument which has its flaws as i describe what the baseball analogy, but at the same time you can't totally dismissive. it could be correct but it could be wrong. we don't know and these other factors like the fact that our solar system seems to be somewhat unusual. for example we don't orbit the most common type of star but is that relevant for the existence of life? we don't really know but it raises a flag. >> host: one of a very interesting aspects of the book which is not necessarily obvious is that you spend a lot of time talking about microbes. in fact he began the book with the dutch scientist who discovered for the first time that there are actually little creatures that are in our saliva and you begin the book with this. so microbes play a very important role in this story. could you talk a little bit about that? >> guest: sure. as you say i begin the book in this moment where perhaps the first time ever a human sees in

the rest of the universe. even background radiation. 15 billion years, they can only get it about half way and that is why they have inflation theories which means everyone has a problem concerning the light issue. people do not understand that we have some models on our website to help explain those sorts of things. >> your counter rebuttal. >> i am completely unsatisfied. you did not in my view address fundamental questions. 680,000 years of snow ice layers which require winter-summer cycles for let's say you have 2000 kinds instead of seven, that makes the problem even more extraordinary. multiplying 11 by 3.5. we get to 35, 40 species every day that we do not see. they are not extent. we are losing species due to mostly human activity and loss of habitat. as far as know of being an extraordinary shipwright, my family spend their whole life learning to make ships. it is very reasonable perhaps to you that noah had superpowers and was able to build this extraordinary craft with seven family members but to me

omaha and not the university of nebraska lincoln. we have in recent years worked hard at the medical center omaha to address some of the threats posed by infectious agents in so many years ago when there was the sars outbreak we developed a very comprehensive biocontainment unit to provide care for patients that might be affected by infectious agents. the u.s. state department recognized that capacity at the university of nebraska medical center and asked if we would provide care. now that it's been an important learning experience for our staff at the medical center and they are currently discussing with government officials, the cdc and others how we can take what we have learned in caring for this patient in her biocontainment unit and provide educational programs for health care providers throughout the country so that they are better prepared to deal with this type of infection. it's a critical issue right now. >> host: dr. lender another issue for many universities is their athletic or graham. roger greene on twitter wants to kn

we do not allow negroes to attend the university of oklahoma law school. they took up the case of a gifted young woman. they took the case back to the supreme court. by now, we're up to 1948. the supreme court is getting irritated. the washington post described it as a hazing. they said the justices inflicted a hazing upon the council, the lawyers for the university of oklahoma asking why does this woman have to come all the way here to go to this law school when we issued this opinion 10 years ago? we told you you have to let her go and you're saying no? they decided, the justices, of course, decided you need to allow her into the university of oklahoma. here's what oklahoma did. they allowed her into the classroom. she had to sit in the back of the class beneath a huge banner that said colored students section. she had to eat at a table that was only for her that said colored dining table. in the library, there was only one table. there was a colored students section in the library. this was noxious, but it was stepping exactly into -- i don't want to say

on work at the university of minnesota. uality of our programs are students areat our he paired to go to work once they succeed. but at the end of the day, there al expectations al of students graduating now hat's different from our generation and the expectation for quality of life and balance, that can be different from other generations. i think that's a function of that is very difficult for a southern university to change. missouri, go ahead. joseph, michigan. arlene is a apartment there. go ahead. caller: yes, i'm a parent. my daughter has been out of years now.22 understand why people can't afford to send their children to school. making about , $23,000 a year at the time. my daughter went to western university which ran around $12,000 a year. she did go full time and she did live on campus. 16, she aughter turned didn't have a car. i didn't have to make car ayments, car insurance payments. she started working at mcdonald's at 15. when shep got her check on friday, most of it went into the bank. she didn't have it to

mark schlissel of the university of michigan. e lines for students, parents, educators, and michigan residents in the last segment of "washington journal." mike is a parent. good morning. caller: i had a question concerning the comments earlier about affordability. we talk interesting about affordability when i just heard tuition for out-of-state is $40,000. this goes beyond university of michigan to the education system and public universities. wherently read an article the median income of college graduates was at the highest level somewhere near $60,000. if you have a student paying $40,000 a year for an education that goes in the neighborhood of $300,000 when you toggle all expenses --total all expenses. i would say that is expensive when you compare that to the median income of an average family. ask, how is it we can consider that affordable to the average american? that is a very important question. it is the right question. the way we endeavor to make it as affordable as possible is with generous financial aid and modest a

she is a lead complainant and the title ix complaint against club the university. as calls mount for nfl commissioner roger goodell to resign over his handling of domestic abuse cases, we will speak with the wife of a former nfl player. when she reported being abused, the league pressured her to keep quiet. she will tell her story. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the obama administration launched what it calls the first strikes of its expanded military campaign against the islamic state. the pentagon says u.s. warplanes bombed isis positions south of baghdad in support of iraqi forces under fire. the u.s. had carried out previous strikes under the stated mission of safeguarding u.s. personnel, helping refugees, and protecting infrastructure. the strikes in iraq come as the u.s. won pledges to fight isis at an international summit in paris. some 30 countries signed on to a statement vowing to defeat isis "by any means necessary." the u.s. did not invite iran to the summit, but confir

residents, 3883. 6,000 students at the university of blooming ton. undergraduate.re 10,000 graduate students, faculty and staff of 8300. talk about cost of college specifically for indiana university, how much of your up by employee salaries, staff salaries, and facilities? salaries are the 80% of the total costs of the years plus employ benefits plus health care, so on. intensive sonnel organization like most other universities there. we are focussed on direct interaction to students and classroom.s in the though i think we've seen a greater and greater impact of education, i still don't think there's a amount of completelyat it will replace that fundamental student-teaching relationship for as long ased universities have existed which is over 25 centuries. host: the annual budget for the billion.y, $1.4 an endowment of $2 billion. alumni, 370,000 worldwide. as far as the annual budget is concerned, you talk about personnel. what about facilities. how much do you spend to keep up facilities?nd add host: this is been -- this is my fear as president. i

>> absolutely. >> scientists at cern say we only understand about 4% of the known universe. the discovery of electrons into an ipod. there's not likely to be a eureka moment here. it may take years of analyzing data to produce the first results. but bob stanek believes the collider will go down in history, and not for swallowing the earth. >> i think the fact that we're given the opportunity to do these experiments enhances everybody's life. i mean, people will get smarter because of it. we learn. >> so you expect big things from this. >> oh, i expect big things from this. you know, just think about it. 100 years ago, we knew nothing. and 100 years ago is not that long ago. can you imagine what we'll know in 10 years? even the next 100 years. >> after a variety of delays, on march 30, 2010, the large hadron collider began its work of smashing subatomic particles. and the hunt for the elusive higgs particle shows some encouraging signs. in december 2011, the collider's two main detectors reported seeing a hint of the higgs particle. that, along with other similar evidence, has

in the big ten conference. university of illinois provost. >>> send us a tweet, post your comments on facebook, and you can also e-mail us. during opening statements yesterday up on capitol hill before the senate armed services committee, the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey had this to say about the possibility of combat troops. >> our military advisers will help the iraqis conduct campaign planning, and coordinate the coalition activities. if we reach a point where i believe our advisors sure accompany iraq troops on attacks on specific eye sill targets i'll recommend that to the president. >>> saying that he will recommend that to the president, the possibility of combat troops, if he deems it necessary. front page, courtesy of the museum here in washington this morning, with the headline, case for ground forces. they shows this, bipartisian support fraction, a majority in both parties back president obama's plan for military campaign against militants in iraq and syria. bae 53% total approving, 29% disapp

the university will not comment on the page. but reportedly the university refers to a press release which it released on friday which said it is committed to preventing and addressing sexual misconduct, unlawful harassment. this is orientation week here at the university. students and their families will be getting quite the lesson on campus life here. back to you. >> taking a look at the other top stories this morning. an alert this morning for de paul students. a stranger going up to female students to get their number. there have been several reports of this happening this month on the lincoln park campus. the men talk the students into giving their phone numbers, and then those phone numbers have been posted on a members-only website without the students permission. in at least one case, the man touched a studentchicago's next archbishop says he wants to help the poor in his new role. bishop blase cupich will be the head of "catholic extension," when he replaces cardinal francis george in november. cupich says his prioritie

he dealt with the universities. and the companies who wanted the ben if sense of the scottish administration. so in a sense, his organization was very easy. it could be a one or two-manned band whereas we have to bring together a range of political opinions, some of whom didn't agree on a whole range of issues but all of whom agreed on one thing, which was the utility and benefits for scotland and part of the united kingdom. i hope tonight that range will be joined by a majority of the people in scotland. >> was it a mistake not to have gordon brown as a far more prominent campaigner for you earlier on? >> no, i don't think so. because you see there are definite stages to this campaign. given that we had to put together the widest range of unity among various parties, then the man that was chosen to do it was a man known not to be a tribal politician, alistair dowling. probably at the time he went into this, the one member of the last four years of the labor government who had come out with credit. and alistair dowli

no problems at the university. o you. >> new details about a third american infected with the ebola. a doctor from boston working with a charity when infected. >> and fellow missionary nancy writebol spoke today for the first time. >> a 51-year-old family physician from massachusetts is the third american to become infected with the ebola virus while serves in west africa. he knew he was heading into an area in the midst of the worried worst outbreak in history but like others felt a calling to help. >> he came to me the day before he left and i asked him do you know what he you're getting into? and he said can of course but i have to go. >> he's been working with pregnant women while in liberia. he's said to be doingel and in isolation. matt lauer got a tour earlier where the two other patients were treated successfully. >> i know there have been discussions that this person will be coming back to the united states. i don't believe the site where they are coming back is answered yet. >> during a press conference wi

then there are financial aid dollars that come into the university. counted as part of our budget but thin those are distributed directly to the students, including the loans and pell grants. that's part of that agreg gate budget. >> jim in midland texas, a parent. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i have a question from dr. linder. i've been to nebraska, really love the state, omaha and worked in omaha and lincoln. omaha is a beautiful city. but i felt like dr. linder had dodged the question earlier and i would like to hear more why if you're giving an engineering agree you have to have history, which adds a lot of cost to your tuition. thanks. >> if you're pursuing an engineering degree, should you take an english course or history course? i think education in the humanities, including history are essential for all citizens to have, there was an extended political discussion that occurred before i came on the air and if our citizens don't have an understanding of world history, how can they properly vote in elections and understand the issues th

>> astrobiology is a search for life in the universe. the search for origin of life here and elsewhere, the future of life, the implications if we find life. it is a very interim -- interdisciplinary subject. >> that is what brought you to the kluge center? we look particularly at the humanistic aspect of astrobiology, which is brought in itself. i looking at the impact on society if we find life. on how is your thinking human beings would respond to discovering intelligent life in the universe? >> the first thing you have to ask when you approach the subject is how you approach it at all. it is a far out subject. what the figure out reactions would be would be even more difficult. we have come up with three approaches. history. there are times in the past that we thought we discovered life. you can see what the reaction was. also, the nature of the , acovery, and thirdly culture contact in various analogies that can help illuminate what the discovery would be like. history, discovery, and analogy are my three approaches. >> can we go to

what is the value of a university president? >> make no mistake about it. even if you say i am at the lower range of the ivory league, i make a lot of money and are and a lot of perks. these salaries even if it was three times my salary don't have a substantial influence on the overall university budget. cornel's budget is year. if the president is making x or two x, it's not going to affect that. it does affect people's morale and it affects people's thinking about what do we value. so, i do think that it's importantly to look at the broad group of staff and faculty who actually make the university do what it does. got to make sure that teachers that affect our kids' lives and our country and our world so substantially are getting reasonable compensation. >> one of these conversations i have had on "talk to al jazeera" is with emla shalmalot who did a lot of studying on high school education and he has come up with a theory that a lot of people hold, that our education system is not actually broken. it's just really bifurcated. there are some people in amer

[applause] >> and the universe parts. the fabric of the universe unfolds. rian greene has written "the fabric of the universe." the fabric of the cosmos, the elegant universe. on the edge of time, which i love, and the hidden reality. the trio of books that deal with multiverses, the fabric of the cosmos, relativity. we are supposed to within 20 minutes -- actually, 18 minutes and 17 seconds -- give you the whole story of the cosmos. and the universe. so, brian, let's begin at the beginning. how did it begin? >> how did it begin? oh, good question. we don't know. [laughter] but we have some ideas. and the ideas is that it expanded. yeah. so the most refined idea which is by, in my opinion, no means confirmed is an idea called inflationary cosmology which tries to answer a somewhat more refined version of the question how'd it begin, what was it that caused space to start swelling in the first place? we all believe that the universe is expanding, the observations support that. what got the expansion started? and the inflationary theory says that gravity itsel

i'm a recent graduate at the university of virginia. in my expense as a survivor and in the course of my work, i have learned a great deal of the dynamic of sexual assault on campuses. i hope to be informative to the committee today. i talk about the challenges survivors face and the way the government could influence. expand the mandate for education outreach. it is critical we ensure colleges are providing education about peer support. victim blame and self blame are -- by peally reinforced ers. one survivor i worked with did not report the attack because she confided in peers put in a believer and said she was wrong and that didn't happen to her because those were all great guys. that means those five young men went unpunished and remained a threat to other students that year. the current national media spotlight has only focused on the lack of sanctioning for students found responsible and sexual assault cases. maintain a range of sanctions for colleges to employee and respects survivors needs and wants come especially in cases where

c-span bus is in iowa city, iowa at the university of iowa and joining from the bus is the president university of iowa, sally mason. that been the president of university since 2007. president mason, begin by what's the budget for the university of iowa, the annual budget. revenues derive from? >> the total budget for the iowa is $3.4 million. we have a large medical center includinge operation, a big hospital. it's a big budget. absolute ly absolutely. it's one that continues to grow natural disaster in 2008, a flood that impacted us significantly and we're from.ring we're recovering in fine fashion with nearly $1 billion of construction going on in iowa right now. the education budget is $680 million and $220 million of this come trillions the state of iowa and the rest comes from tuition. resident is going to pay about $8,000 a year to attend the university of iowa. resident going to pay $28,000. hy that discrepancy between in-state and out of state? in-state bviously the students are subsidized by appropriations from the state of iowa. always s in iowa have valued educ

friday, sally mason, president of the university of iowa. us ng us on the c-span eric the napolis is kaler. on ks for joining us here washington journal. >> glad to be with you. host: tell us about the system.ty of minnesota is it a public system, a land university? uest: five campuses, minneapolis, st. paul, duluth, morris, rochester. students, $75 million a year in research spending. a big operation. how long have you been president? guest: well, less than that, for sure. i'm starting my fourth year. i'm the 16th president of the university. this ple tend to serve in job for a good long time. some of your priorities as president? guest: well, it's simple for me. i'm interested in accessibility affordability and i'm interested in the university roviding a truly excellent education for those students. also interested in being sure that we help to drive the state of the minnesota, that we're the home innovations innd medical care, science, engineering. and we have a critical important maintain the to liberal arts and make sure that creative wo

c-span's at the university of wisconsin madison. and your r questions comments about higher education, he university of wisconsin cross is here. 202-585-3881. 202-585-3882. wisconsin residents want to hear 202-585-3883. greg is in madison. ahead, greg. caller: thank you for taking my call, mr. cross. listening earlier about providing a portion of the and the university and madison as a resident and -- a graduate of uw, i'm with the maternal deprivation studies. i didn't hear the studies started. i don't recall if they already started. think a previous caller was talking about that. it didn't pass the committee. it didn't go before the committee for full approval. what transpired? guest: my understanding it did at least at this point, i'm not sure it's started but i think it's gone through the entire process. host: ray cross, another issue, colleges, wisconsin being a rural state, you have a ackground in running royal colleges. what are the challenges in reaching the students in the areas of wisconsin? florence county in wisconsin has

>> guest: the budget at the university of nebraska lincoln is as you say $1.2 billion. of that money it is spent principally on instruction. there's also a strong outreach program in our service activities through the state to extension and of course the research budget is substantial approaching $300 million in itself. we have been very fortunate in the state of the fresco to enjoy solid support from our state legislature which has helped us keep tuition rates low. we have also had a very successful campaign to the university of nebraska foundation to raise funds for student -- student scholarships. the campaign just created more than 1000 different scholarship funds as well as building the infrastructure that supports the university. so really you see a broad gamut of people in the state of nebraska working together to support higher education. >> host: idea is next, a parent. go ahead. cocco yes, i am a parent and i went back to school after i got laid off at work. i got it to create in engineering. i had my classes, classes that i really didn't need for that degree l

c-span bus is in iowa city, iowa at the university of iowa and joining from the bus is theesident university of iowa, sally mason. that been the president of university since 2007. president mason, begin by what's the budget for the university of iowa, the annual budget. revenues derive from? >> the total budget for the iowa is $3.4 million. we have a large medical center includinge operation, a big hospital. it's a big budget. absolute ly absolutely. it's one that continues to grow natural disaster in 2008, a flood that impacted us significantly and we're from.ring we're recovering in fine fashion with nearly $1 billion of construction going on in iowa right now. the education budget is $680 million and $220 million of this come trillions the state of iowa and the rest comes from tuition. resident is going to pay about $8,000 a year to attend the university of iowa. resident going to pay $28,000. hy that discrepancy between in-state and out of state? in-state bviously the students are subsidized by appropriations from the state of iowa. always s in iowa have valued educati

but maybe in the intellectual universe. and i think that's good for our souls to know where we fit in. >> thank you. >>> the gentleman from ohio is recognized for his question. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the gentleman, fur both of you, how has the recent discovery of over 1700 planets by the kepler space telescope, how has that impacted sedi research? >> if you had asked the astronomers 20 years ago, they would say are there planets going around other stars. and they would say oh, i don't know. and is thatthat's all changed n. >>> if you extrapolate on that, there are a trillion planets in the milky way galaxy. that's about three or four times more planets than there are stars. that's a lot of places for life. squl i thi . >> i think it's also perfect it had experiments. certain kinds of stars, certain masses of staurs, certain brightnesses of stars. those are the ones that we thought these might have an earth like plan. we don't know. dan has just mentioned, we know that the majority of stars have planets. you can just loo

but just two days before terrance kelly was supposed to leave for the university of oregon on a full scholarship he was shot and killed while waiting to pick up his younger brother in richmond. kelly's story is now being told on the big screen. when the game stands tall opened last month, it tells the story of tele's death and the shock waves it send through concord's de lasalle's high school. as fred inglis reports back in 2003 it was a team with an extraordinary winning record with kelly as its super star. >> delasalle still the nation's top ranked high school football team since 2001. but kreutics from all parts of the country still -- but critics from all parts of the country still say that they don't play any big opponents. well how do you like it now. kicked the field goal marks the first time's delasalle has been behind all year. but there comes spartans. kelly scored twice tonight. spartans win 23-10 and guess what it wasn't that close. so the spartans all time football player one streak now 145 and counting. >> it was the biggest game of the year. my biggest game of the year.

we think particles gave birth to the modern day universe we see today. we are all children of this particle. but it predicts a new generation that are super particles and we hope to find them with the colli collider. the first great mystery of the unionverse is the creation but the second great mystery is the creation of the mind. these are the two great front r frontiers in all of science. where did the universe come from and where did the mind come from with the two most important questions asked today. albert died without finishing his greatest theory. they realized his great theory was the theory of everything. we wanted an equation no more than one inch long that would explain the entire universe and i said that is for me. this is greater than any murderer mystery. i want to complete his dream of everything. we have stream theory and it is the leading and only candidate for the theory that explains the universe, stars, people, and mave even love. >> host: it is provable? >> guest: we found the particles but if we find sparticals that nail it to the w

he said he chose to take a leave of absence and said he'll quit his job at the university in the spring>>> take a look at these photos here. he's wearing a full face mask to make himself look older. his actually age and race are unknown. police say he robbed a wells fargo bank on monday. he robbed that same bank in june and tried to rob another bank in philadelphia. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >> it's coming down this morning. especially in jersey and delaware. cape may, that's a live view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. it's not going to warm up all that much. jillian mele what's going on with the traffic? >> we have wet roads all over the place, bill. this is near spring garden street at 76. that spring garden street on ramp is still closed because of the construction project in that area. coming up in just a few minutes we'll update that downed tree falling in millville. >> reporter: jillian, just in the past minutes, all three suspects in the center city couple bashing, i'll have that coming up after the break. well, not that kind of fresh. on the freshn

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