a land grant university? >> sure. it's minnesota's land grant university. we have five campuses across the state, our twin cities campus, minneapolis and st. paul, duluth, morris, christian and rochester. all together about 59,000 students, so it's a big operation. >> the university was founded in 1851. how long have you been president, president kalor? >> well, less than that for sure. i'm just starting my fourth year, i'm the 16th president of the university so people tend to serve in this job for a long time. >> what are some of your priorities as president? >> well, it's really pretty simple for me, i'm very interested in accessibilities and affordability. and i'm interested in the university providing a truly excellent education for those students. also interested in being sure that we help drive the economy of the state of minnesota, that we're the home of inventions and innovations in medical care, science and engineering and we also have a critically important responsibility to maintain the liberal arts and be a place where creative work of all kind

indiana university is a fabuloua university.njoy every minute of my life here. >> let's hear from lawrence from pennsylvania, an educator. >> caller: hi. president mcrobbie, i'd like to get into your general education program. i'd like to know, kind of a follow-up toli an earlier comme, on what kind of humanities, kino philosophy, english -- all students are likely to get in the important first two years of college? thank you very much.get >> we have a general education > program that with some variations applies to all of thf campuses of the university, all seven campuses of the university. but on this campus in particular -- baring in mind it's a large campus. in summary, students are expected to have done a series of consecutive courses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics and also to have done a number of years of a foreign language. this was put in place by our faculty through their initiative now about eight or nine years ago. and has recently commenced. and it is a program -- the general conce

the university of wisconsin, university of illinois at urbana champagne and indiana university. that's followed by a hearing on ant anti-bottledic resistance. >>> traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary lives. this weekend we partnered with comcast for a visit to st. paul, minnesota. st. paul in the 1930s, i wouldn't call it las vegas, but it was a very lively city, because the gangsterings brought their gun holds, during prohibition, you had the biggest jazz artists of the decade here in st. paul. it was a very, very lively place partially because the gangsters were welcomed hear. virtually every major gangster, kidnapper and bank robber in america lived and worked within a three block area of where we're standing today, john dillinger, baby face nelson, alvin creepy carpet. all were here. people don't know that, there's no statues of these gangsters, but this was the epicenter of 1930s crime in the era of john dillinger. the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation with j. edgar hoover had this building as their headquarters. this is also the buildin

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 s

indiana university is a fabulous university.nd i enjoy every minute of my life here. >> let's hear from lauren from pennsylvania, an educators, hi, lawrence. >> caller: hi. president mcrobbie, i would like to get into your general education program. and i would like to know kind of a followup to an earlier comment on what kind of humanities, philosophy, history, english a student -- well, all students are likely to get in those important first two years of college. thank you very much. >> yes. we have a general education program that with some variations applies all cross all of the campuses across the university, all seven campuses on the university. on this campus in particular, bearing in mind it's a large campus with many different courses, many areas, in summary, students are expected to have done a series of consecutive courses in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics, and also to have done a number of years of a foreign language. and this was put in place by our faculty through their initiative no

she is a senior at columbia university. will continue to follow these stories both at columbia and all over the united states, not to mention outside of our borders. when we come back, we're going to cleveland to speak with the wife of a former nfl player. she is going to tell her story, what happened to her and what role the nfl played. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. calls are increasing for nfl commissioner roger goodell to resign over how the league has addressed a mystic violence. so far this year, at least for players of been arrested for domestic violence, most notably also running back ray rice. he was indefinitely's is been a last week by the league after a video emerged of him punching his fiancÉe, now wife, in the face, knocking her unconscious inside an atlantic city casino elevator. rice had previously been suspended for two games by the nfl after an earlier video of the same incident showed him dragging the unconscious woman

campuses, the university of nebraska medical center is based n omaha, no it no the university of nebraska lincoln. years worked ent hard at the medical center in omaha to address some of the posed by infectious agents. ago when therers was the sars outbreak, we developed a comprehensive biocontainment unit to provide care for patients who might be agents. by infectious and the u.s. state department capacity at the university nebraska medical provide careked to for this physician. now that's been an important for our experience staff at the medical center. discussing ently with government official, the dc and others and how they learned for caring for the patient and biocontainment unit programs for health care providers around the better so they're prepared to deal with this type of infection. now.itical issue right host: another issue for many universities the athletic program. twitter wants to know how do you feel about college athletes forming a union nd being compensated for generating millions for the universities? nebraska iversity of lincoln has had very successful athletic program

competition does the university get from for profit universities? guest: i don't -- i don't see at all, competition frankly. going for profits. very little. i see that -- i think a major competition is for the rest of the big ten and the colleagues you're visiting around the midwest. we all compete among ourselves i in a very neral healthy way for the best faculty.and the best that you're ies visiting are in some ways one of the real unheralded strengths of country. people maybe think more of the west coast than the east coast. the big ten universities that you're visiting, now there are 14. universities n that you are visiting, collectively, there's an of all of rcentage the research. the enormous percentage of studentsstudents, phd. in the united states. it's something of which the big ten are very proud. you think about the quality of for profit universities? guest: sorry, could you say again? i didn't catch it? host: what do you think about profit ity of for universities? guest: i'd leave that to others. quite a usly it's been of controversy abo

that universe. the book i talk a little bit about how we might do that, and i might go off over the details of what would be an extraordinary technological achievement. >> does this have to do with the calculation of uncertainty? i thought that your discussion was fabulous in the book because i'm no mathematician but i thought that you did a great job explaining that. >> guest: part of the book is the way in which we deal with probability and make inferences about the world around us based on limited information. >> host: because that is what we have is limited information. we rely very heavily on a set of a mathematical theorem that comes from the mathematicians back in the 18 hundreds and it is all about weighing of the evidence with fear he and asking not so much as my theory correct but how probable is it that my theory is correct correct to give him some observation that i've made and in the book i use a little detail to give an inkling of how this works and it's going to turn into a rooster. a

universe. this program is about an hour. >> host: hello, or scharf. it is wonderful to have you here today. i found your book fascinating. it was a terrific read and i am thrilled to be here. you know, one of the great things about being here and talking to you is i get to ask you about the big questions. it questions that most people would not have to answer. that is the real fun of this book. so your book is called "the copernicus complex." so maybe you could tell us what that is. >> guest: absolutely. tanks, ingrid. so, "the copernicus complex" is really a phrase that is trying to capture one of the aspects of what i think is perhaps the biggest question we as a species can ask. and sometimes we ask it nonscientific way. the book is really about the scientific question of whether or not we are alone in the universe. title "the copernicus complex" is the way we feel about ourselves and a complex that we carry around with us that on the one hand from copernicus we learned that we are not centr

to revenues for the university?f 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

of the director of the open university project.r 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 chil

a universe that we can observe which a universe in which life has traveled to for 4.5 million years. usually just called the observable universe, it's finite. it contains a few hundred billion galaxies and a couple hundred billion stars. there are a finite number of places where life might occur and it means the observable universe can take finite grounds of life. it might just be one instance but chances are it's probably something between one and a larger number. but why that number? is one living planet for 20 solar systems. why is it that number? one of the arguments i try and make in the book is determining that could be extremely important not just in evaluating some statistical numerical way to true significance, putting a number to it but also as perhaps a code of deeper physics. this really loops back to ideas that have been discussed in the past. for example there's an anthropic principle. so this really came up in the middle of the 20th century. since we started trying to understand the nature of the universe. it wasn't quite clear at that time whether the universe was fin

the universe we can observe for which life has traveled to 14 billion years to be the observable universe is finite. it contains a few billion gallons that may contain a couple hundred billion but it's a finite number of places where life might occur. that means that the observable universe contains finite amounts of life. it might just be one instance. but the chances are that it is something between one and a very much larger number. but why is it that number? if it is just us, why? it is one looking living planet is one of the arguments i try to make in the book is that detouring that could be important not just for evaluating some statistical numerical way of true soup cans putting the number to it but also as the deeper physics. and this really goes back to the ideas that have been discussed in the past for example as an anthropic principle this came up in a middle of the 20th century that started trying to understand the nature of the universe what was quite clear at that the time the universe was finite and age or whether it had always been here said it is the same in time and spac

a state university after all. that education both affordable and assuring the students are graduating with very high level that will enable them to prosper in the work place is a great challenge. is a whole range of factors to deal with the function in the institution of $3.3 billion. host: what steps do you think have to take place in order to that affordability with quality? uest: one of the key things we're doing in terms of affordability is really focus in couple of in the last years. on the whole issue of student debt, you're probably aware that his has got didn't -- i'm sure you're aware this is appropriate attention. ours.een a concern of and so last year, we introduced comprehensive financial literacy program that involves that all e modules entering freshmen have to omplete on financial literacy courses on financial illiteracy or credit and a variety of administrative matters to give students much better control and their student debt. what is remarkable about this is the we saw a 11% drop in amount of de

we do remedial education at all universities of all types. we have programs before the freshman matriculates to give them a little bit of chance to get used to the system. back in the day, i was the first one in my family to complete a college education. neither one of my parents had done any college. so, i wasn't able to turn to them and say, well, you know, what's a mid-term? how do you get ready for this? and students move from different climates, let alone different countries. about 20% of cornell's student body of 22,000 are international students. so, i think we have to think especially about groups like first-generation college students where we want to focus a little more attention and in fact, people like me are always talking about diversity on college campuses which i think is one of the most important things we should stress. the more the diverse the population of students we serve, the more robust has to be the support services to make sure they can get a leg up and get the work done. >> one of the struggles in the last few years

campuses, the university of nebraska medical center is based n omaha, no it no the university of nebraskaincoln. years worked ent hard at the medical center in omaha to address some of the posed by infectious agents. ago when therers was the sars outbreak, we developed a comprehensive biocontainment unit to provide care for patients who might be agents. by infectious and the u.s. state department capacity at the university nebraska medical provide careked to for this physician. now that's been an important for our experience staff at the medical center. discussing ently with government official, the dc and others and how they learned for caring for the patient and biocontainment unit programs for health care providers around the better so they're prepared to deal with this type of infection. now.itical issue right host: another issue for many universities the athletic program. twitter wants to know how do you feel about college athletes forming a union nd being compensated for generating millions for the universities? nebraska iversity of lincoln has had very successful athletic programs.

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

tuftse a statement from university. i'm impressed with them for andeing to retraining rectifying the situation. they have not had a title ix for nader for 1.5 years. during the course of our investigation, they agreed to provide an run relief for students and investigate complaints that,. complaints to come. entered into robust agreements with universities of a variety of sizes and we are a norm is the proud of what my staff has been able to achieve. i look forward to continuing. it is critically important that the practice where people think they do not need to comply with the law and they think they have satisfied title ix. i look forward to answering any i, again, really appreciate the opportunity to share with you. what's a few. -- >> thank you. >> morning. my name is james moore and i manage the clear reaction compliance division at the u.s. department of education. thank you for inviting me to ins gust the department role the clear react and the implementation of the amendments of the cleary act. college should be

this goes beyond university of michigan to the education system and public universities.rently 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 amounts of loans. i willin-state student, talk in a moment about out-of-state, for an in-state income, if your family is less than $60,000 a year, the out-of-pocket costs are almost zero. between scholarships, work-study earningmmer expectations, and a modest amount of loans, we have managed to make it so students from families of typical income can afford to get this spectacular education. although the i

here in nebraska we operate was called the university of nebraska high school and this provides university level courses to students throughout the state that are basically dual credit so they are satisfying some of their college requirements while they are in high school. the other important point that you make is the issue of transferability. once you have had certain courses and one educational experience you should have systems that allow those forces to transfer to your next degree. we have such programs here in nebraska between our different campuses, between the community colleges and our state and the university. we actually have a unique program where we are piloting reverse transfer of credit back to trinity college is so someone who did not complete their associates degree in actually used some of their university courses for that purpose. the more dialogue there is between institutions the more efficient it is in the more cost is reduced as you point out. >> host: dr. linder you said earlier $300 million for research at the university of nebraska lincoln. what is the university

host: the northwestern university is the only private university in the big ten conference. what is the difference between them? our viewers have been watching us do these interviews. it seems to be the price tag. much more expensive than the public universities we talk to. guest: we are not subsidized by the taxpayers of illinois. money a little bit of from the state to do new construction and keep research labs going. generally, we have to pay for ourselves. we have a very large endowment and we get a lot of money through philanthropy. host: your annual budget is $2 million -- $2 billion. endowment makes up $9.8 billion. parents, students look for in deciding between a public university and private university like yours? host: there are a lot of great public's out there. we are proud to be in the big ten. there are 14 universities in the big ten. public.em are they are great flagship publics. many of them we call the public ivy's. we are a lot smaller. we have 8000 full-time undergrads. if you look at the larger ones, penn state, the ohio state, they have almost 40,000 und

i know people are graduating from university, from our university with more than that debt. means they've been spending those funds on things beyond the to college.g that's a personal decision. a person wants to have a personal life style. that decision at the end of the day, they need to find the way to pay for it. do you think h the -- how much more do you think the role the federal terms ent should play in of additional student loan aid? guest: that's an interesting question. balance there is really tough to see. argumentnd, there's an that as we make more, lower cost federall aid available, financial aid available, students take that and therefore more indebtedness without having a hard conversation about it. really ismething that in their long-term interest. on the other hand, obviously, students who need that financial aid, having it available, having it available interest rate is a huge advantage for them going forward. it's not really an easy answer to the right level of aid.ral financial i'm in favor of it being available at low interest rate. some u might want to h

monday, university of michigan. tuesday, ohio state university. thursday, we will be at penn state. you very much for watching today. we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. enjoy the rest of your thursday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> news about the u.s. response to the ebola outbreak from "the washington post" online. secretary of state john kerry has appointed nancy powell to be ebola coordinator for the state department. l will lead the ebola coordination unit. "lead new role, she will the state department's outreach to international partners, including foreign governments, to ensure a speedy and truly global response to this crisis." declared thema has outbreak and national security priority. the president will be addressing the oboe outbreak in a speech to the united nations general assembly. his -- will be addressing the ebola outbreak

the student of any university, not just the university of illinois. parents as well. kids heading to college, we want to hear what your concerns rshgs 202-585-3881. educators, the same, 202-585-3882. and illinois residents, 202-585-3883. i want to get your concerns, and comments on higher education here. how do you address the curriculum at the university of illinois to make sure it's job skills and what companies need in the workforce? guest: the fundamental role is for critical nts thinking and to partake in society itself. just being a job shop is not has the practice of each individual major as students can go out and be productive in society. we know that students many things in their lifetime. engineering school, business school, we have our own attributes. if you look at the totality of ies, the social sciences contribute to the training of students at the fundamental level. university of illinois is doing and great institutions like this are doing to make sure that students are only prepared for just one job, but able to transition from a lifetime.ver that's o

mccorn was at the university of oklahoma. now we had a 68-year-old man in a classroom with 20, 21-year-old students he went to school every day in a suit. he has to sit there. he called it humiliating to sit beneath this banner, to eat at this one table at this specified time. he said it's humiliating and hard for me to do my work. that case, along with another case out of texas, the human sweat case, those cases trundled forth to the supreme court, and on april 4th, 1950, the anniversary is coming up, on april 4th, 1950, the justices heard oral arguments. this time thurgood marshall asked them to overturn plessey. he said separate cannot be equal. the justices unanimously said you're right. mr. sweat, -- take that banner down. that offends the constitution. mr. marshall, we declined to reach the question -- they don't overturn it. marshall said this is a decision replete with road marks. the path had been set. the foundation had been set. everybody knew it. in texas in 1950 dollars, the texas legislature appropriated $3 mill

most of the colleges and universities in this country are open access universities and are not getting the financial support they need in order to do their business well. that is very strongly related to their underperformance in graduation rates. we cannot resource institutions with less money than you need to provide high-quality remedial education. i would go one step further. i'm thinking that your proposal is very modest. i believe that these institutions are providing such a great service to the nation that we should have a discussion of them becoming state-supported. we have done that in the past but we need to preserve institutions and preserve our investments in those schools. i think we should consider that i would like to hear a discussion on that among the hbcu's. >> dr. kirkland? tenets that i like dillard, is, at we take students with many challenges and we graduate them with other well-financed institutions with higher admission standards who sort of cherry pick off the top and get the top students. variation in the population of its easy because you get students who are

i'm from the university of new hampshire. and the codirector of prevention innovation research and practices for ending violence against women. it is an honor to be asked to testify before the house committee on an issue that has been an important art of both my personal and professional lives in the past 30 years. our organization is made up of people who work together to create and evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based prevention and responses to sexual and relationship violence and stalking. we are investing in building the capacity to respond to survivors and measure climate and incidents and prevent violence and apply with recent federal laws and mandates. we believe that to truly end sexual violence on campus, we must understand what works in prevention and response. if value effectiveness and document climate incidents and readiness to change and implement evidence that has best practices. i have had the opportunity to witness a dramatic shift in prevention approaches. in the early days, we attempted to end the prob

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and university archives. >> this is the campus of stanford university. one of america's great schools. >> this is the memorial church. this is the memorial theater. >> and this is the library on war, revolution and peace. with your nbc news commentator. i'm meeting a great american and an old friend. i am here to have a talk with the 31st president of the united states, mr. herbert hoover.wwèw >>> sit down, ray. >> thank you, sir. could you tell us what it means. >> well, it is the library on war, revolution and peace. the purpose of it is to present the complete history of this world since the beginning of the first war i. it has many objectives. one of them is to aid in the development of measures of peace out of the display of the experience of the world in that way. it covers economic, military, other questions. it is now the haven of historians from all over the world. because the german war lie brave was destroyed in the last war. the french war library was destroyed. and the british war library was greatly damaged. this is practically the only co

[applause] >> and the universe parts. the fabric of the universe unfolds.brian 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 itse

monica dunford from the university of chicago.e university of michigan. >> so there's a lot of americans here. >> there's a lot of americans here. in a recent report, they said that 52% of all particle physicists, of all u.s. particle physicists are here working on things. there's a lot. >> you feel any pressure? >> absolutely. >> really? how hard have you been working? >> well, i haven't been to the grocery store in five weeks. so i think i have a jar of mustard and a stick of butter in my refrigerator right now. >> feel like you're part of something historic? >> absolutely, yeah. >> it's like opening a whole new window that you never saw before. and you open the window, and you get a whole new vista of things that might happen that you didn't have access to before. so from a scientist's point of view, it's the biggest thing to happen in particle physics in, say, 20 or 30 years. >> yeah. >> what's the average person gonna get out of this? >> what the--the best thing is, we don't know. >> some scientists believe the experiment cou

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

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

and each university exists in a marketplace, unfortunately. having a cap on football coaches salaries would be an interesting national discussion. but it's not one i want to participate in. >> why not? you sound reluctant. explain that. >> i think that the question about capping any profession's salary, whether it's a coach, entertaining, ceo is a more complex discussion than we could take on this morning. but we do live in a marketplace. if you're trying to attract top tier coaches at any school, you're competing with those coaches for the employment of those coaches with other schools and i think that's what's driven these salaries to a level where they are. >> dr. linder at the university of nebraska lincoln, what is the state of tenured professors? how many do you have? how does the process work? >> at the university of nebraska lincoln, the tenure density is around 60%. and the process at the university of nebraska lincoln is a faculty may enter a tenure track and after several years of service developed portfolio that would be assessed t

like the university of wisconsin madison? does the federal government have a say in that? guest: oh, yes. any research involving federal funds, there are rigorous federal that the a ernment requires and process and ofht course that's part of this. guest: how does it work? oft: it depends on the type research that's being undertaken. ost of that is that there are pieces of that depending on if ou're doing lab work or if animals are involved or human -- if there is human research involved. are protocols that are required by the federal government. they audit that. hey audit that on a regular basis. they establish the processes that help guide that. guest: thank you for c-span. college, a ing to a state college here in minnesota. collaborationof a like north dakota and south minnesota about the collaboration of interstate fees hat would be considered for college different states that collaborate financially? that true or guest: yes, that is true. wisconsin has a reciprocity agreement with minnesota. from your son or daughter inn

as some of the nation's top universities, including harvard and m. i. t. have started to open up their classes to the world for free through massive on-line courses known as mooks. >> it is a free education course offered on line anywhere from hundreds to thousands of students can sign up for it. >> reporter: the ability to receive a highly coveted elite education for free will have significant implications. >> your local state university is going to be in direct competition with the most elite universities in the world. >> futurists say big name universities with strong private endowments should be fine, low cost colleges will be okay, too. but those schools largely dependent on tuition may struggle and may not survive. >> the universities in trouble are those if you will, that are stuck in the middle. we're seeing this in industry after industry, those who were kind of caught in between those two will either adapt or face the consequences. >> when the middle hollows out and the mid-tier colleges and universities go out of business, many futurists say hig

host: interviewing university presidents giving you a chance to talk to university presidents. this is a c-span bus tour. morning the 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 o