the university system of maryland consists of 12 is a three research universities. for traditional apprehensive. 2 regional centers. one virtual university. we are a microcosm of higher education across the united states. in that vein, we experience and have a lot of takes on programs i'm going to speak about. i will awful thoughts on programs and their ending. we begin by thanking the commission for holding these hearings. it is very timely. the counselor has repeatedly said that it is a national disgrace that students and families coming from the lowest income graduate 9-10% chance of graduating college where students from the upper income quarter graduated 5-90%. there are many complex reasons why more low income students don't complete a college degree obviously the volume of financial aid dollars and that efficacy of these programs make these dollars available is critical to expanding success rates for these students. there are roughly 7000 institutions of higher dictation that participate in the federal health grant and/or federal student loan programs. many a

the university of virginia is one of two public universities with the policy and commitment to meeting 100% of demonstrated need for all students. if a student is admitted to the university, finances should not be an issue to those with financial need. in order to meet 100% of demonstrated financial need, the university reviews student's eligibility for financial aid from all sources, beginning with federal, then state and finally institutional. in the first year of access uva federal sources made a 42% of the ago reagreegregate university need, they spent 30% of ago agree gat need of its own money for need based grants. for '13-'14. 46.1 million to meet the financial need of $100 million for under graduate population. federal sources have dropped to 33% and state sources have dropped to 6%. for the same time frame, campus based funds from dropped from 18% of demonstrated financial need to 5%. access uva helped to increase the percentage of students with financial need from 23% to 34% of our under graduate population and our pell grant population increased from 5% to 13%. to demonstrat

or a large university. there are specific advising and mentoring skill sets to impart. students don't typically -- students from underrepresented and underserved groups don't typically do well in s.t.e.m. areas unless special efforts are put into those. so very specific counseling strategies like making sure they have core sequences in the right place, making sure no one takes economics before they have done calculus and statistics, because you've got to get them early into the idea that quantity and change comes before quantity and chance, quantity and chance comes before quantity and prediction. if you have these kinds of specific strategies in place, they can do economics, they can do genetics, they can do engineering, they can do experimental psychology. >> thank you. could i ask one more question, mr. chairman? >> sure. >> both for dr. hogan and chancellor white, could you talk about the number of students who come to your campuses from the community college? at least my recollection is almost two thir

>> yes, because the university does not consider it upper division.and it depends on the class which is a gray area. for example, i'm a psych major and a minor in counseling and rehabilitation. i have to retake the class. psych 5 is equivalent to psych 1 at state. some count as a transfer, others do not. right now the university is limiting the retake of classes to twice even if it's a w.

>> yes, because the university does not consider it upper division. and it depends on the class which is a gray area. for example, i'm a psych major and a minor in counseling and rehabilitation. i have to retake the class. psych 5 is equivalent to psych 1 at state. some count as a transfer, others do not. right now the university is limiting the retake of classes to twice even if it's a w. they have recently instituted after we complained to the department of education. they have the ability to withdraw for medical. it's on an individual case by case basis. a lot of units are still being double counted. >> i really commend all of your hard work on this and back in the late 70s san francisco state had a very strong disability student committee. because i was very active in other clubs then. so i know about this. and at the time the student union was brand new. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. any questions from the staff? any public comment on the bridge line? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. we will now close public comment. thank you f

for the university of north texas. [applause] i'm deeply honored to get to participate in this celebration for this commencement of the north texas mean green. now, i know firsthand the caliber of the students who attend the university of north texas. my nephew, ryan abbott graduated from north texas five years ago. in 2010, with a degree in emergency administration and planning. he now works with the philadelphia office of emergency management. and the university of north texas would be proud of him today because of what he did earlier this week, when he put his degree to good use helping to respond to the tragic amtrak crash that took place just outside of philadelphia. now, i also got to know recently another current unt student. his name is nick bradley. now, for nick, after he graduated from high school, he didn't come straight to unt. instead, he enrolled and joined into the united states air force. he served in the united states air force until 2008 when the truck he was riding in blew up because of a bomb in af

for the university of north texas. i'm deeply honored to get to participate in this celebration for this commencement of the north texas mean green. now, i know firsthand the caliber of the students who attend the university of north texas. my nephew, ryan abbott graduated from north texas five years ago. in 2010, with a degree in emergency administration and planning. he now works with the philadelphia office of emergency management. and the university of north texas would be proud of him today because of what he did earlier this week, when he put his degree to good use helping to respond to the tragic amtrak crash that took place just outside of philadelphia. now, i also got to know recently another current unt student. his name is nick bradley. now, for nick, after he graduated from high school, he didn't come straight to unt. instead, he enrolled and joined into the united states air force. he served in the united states air force until 2008 when the truck he was riding in blew up because of a bomb in afghanistan.

campuses, and the university of california berkley, and did a post-doc at the university of michigan. well, here i am. i'm proud to have had the opportunity to public higher education to be lifted and launched into an interesting and consequential life. in part of my support came from the federal government in what was then called the national defense student loan. thank you very much. >> thank you dr. white, mr. hogan? >> thank you, mr. chairman members of the commission -- it's off? thank you. i'm not chancellor brit curwin, but unfortunately due to a family illness, he had to tend to his wife this morning. i'm pjhogan, i'm happy to be here today e. by way of background, the university system of maryland comprises 12 institutions three research universities three historically black institutions, four traditional comprehensives two regional higher education centers, and one virtual university. we are, i believe, a microcosm of higher education in the united states in a very small geographic state. in that vain, we experience and have a lot of takes on programs i'm going to speak abo

joining us is students for concealed weapons, a graduate student at the university of texas. in new york is colin, a senior policy advocate of every town for gun safety. he survived the 2006 virgin tech shooting that took 32 lives. welcome to the antonia antonia, why do you need a gun on campus? >> i think it comes down to the fact that it's self-defence, that we have the right to defend ourselves as college students on campus. as we see about campus sexual assault and being a woman, i'm a graduate student, and most of my classes are at night. i feel it's my right to protect myself, and having a whistle and, you know, at your head, and having a cell phone with 911 on the other hand is not enough to protect me from an attacker. >> would you be able to quickly obtain your handgun and have it ready to fire in order to defend yourself. is that something that is consistent with the nature of attacks in a place like a college campus. >> well, we can, you know, look at amanda collins story in 2006 and the university of nevada, she was a licensed holder. she did not bring her conceal

and many other private universities do the same.r many so-called elite universities, they are available. in spite of all this some people still need money. so you can borrow money. we hear a lot about student loans. our taxpayers generous enough, is borrowing for college a good investment. are students borrowing too much? one way to answer this question is to compare student loans to automobile loans. when i was 25 years old, i bought my first car. and i had to get an auto loan. i was outraged that the bank made my father cosign the loan because i had no assets and no credit rating. they took my car as collateral and said i had to pay it back in three years. compare that to your student loan today. taxpayers will loan you up to $6,000 a year. that's in addition to the pell grant you don't have to pay back. your credit rating doesn't matter. your interest rate is 4.25% for this year. at a fixed rate. you may pay the loan back using no more than 10% of your disposal income. if it's not paid back after 20 years, it's forgiven. is your

. >> so with your idea is, of one is the idea to get colleges and universities to have a sheriff risk for the loans that go into default. >> i think we have always thought of colleges and universities need to share in accountability for outcomes so risk sharing is one of the ideas in the overall bucket that we are keenly interested to engage as pardners. >> a thing in particular? day regulate the accreditation and process to become the accredited institution with federal stallone's? >> the president in the "state of the union" also addressed this and i think what we regard as the twin problems of accreditation and one is that we think there needs to be more rigor in the accreditation process and also more flexibility. so we are working on a set of proposals. >> day you have a and advisory commission? is a tour the altman solution? >> we are still working it out. >> with two years of free community college you receive a pretty stormy reception. are you tweeting it to get off the runway? >> bell legislative process is one but at the same time we have been heartened by these conversation

maureen: beer could soon be on tap at the university of maryland. this cool has a plan to sell beer at athletic events starting this fall. sales will be limited to one drink per transaction and additional police would be on hand. the university estimates the sales could net a half $1 million. the commissioners must approve the plan and they meet in july. if it is approved, the university would join other two other schools in our area that allow out the hall at sporting events. george washington allows out only at hospitality areas at the smith center. west virginia sells it inside the stadium only. other universities in the region prohibit alcohol at athletic events. leon: see what happens there. we've seen them burning couches when there was no-call there. -- there was no alcohol there.

>>> three women who are now suing university of california at berkeley, they say the school didn't do enough to investigate their claims they were sexually assaulted. ktvu's rob roth spoke to the women and today he joins us now live in the news room with the story. rob? >> reporter: the lawsuit claims when the three women told university of california at berkeley authorities they had been sexually assaulted university of california at berkeley showed deliberate indifference and failed to respond appropriately. >> the three women and their attorneys met with reporters today and talked about their frustrations dealing with the university of california at berkeley administration. they say the assaults occurred in 2012. it claims they had to wait months before hearing word on how they were handling the complaints. they claim no investigation was conducted. >> to be honest, i don't want to be here today. i am frustrated. i am angry.

tell us about the mysteries of the universe? welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. fifa's top official, chuck blazer, has admitted to taking bribes and hosting two world cups including south africa in 2010. his admission was made in 20 13 but the court papers were released today. nick bryant has the latest from new york. nick: they are looking into how fifa awarded the world cup to russia and qatar. chuck blazer is in the middle of the investigation. >> i think fifa is doing a really great job. when we look back in 10 or 20 years, i'm proud of our accomplishments. nick: this businessman with a love for parents have been singing -- and they love for parrots has been singing like a canary. native incident is in new york journalist who broke the chuck blazer story. >> each agency found him on the streets in new york and told him they would put him in handcuffs they are on the spot, or they could cooperate. nick: these are the court documents detailing his guilty plea in 2013. he says he and ot

so the question is how do we , handle a university environment? what do we do a university? >> the nature of the video itself. i'm reminded of the donald sterling incident. both incidences, they are inexcusable that the same time it is raising the question of if they didn't know they were being filmed, where does your freedom of speech come into play. i don't agree with what the attorney did but it is troublesome that you could be saying something stupid, films randomly and expelled. or lose your basketball team. prof. chatelain: there are consequences to our speech public and private. right? our expectations of privacy can have consequences in the public. right? but you have to question the structural question of what does it mean when a group of students on a bus on the way to a party that part of their entertainment, part of them getting their head in the party game is to sing a racist song on a bus? what does that say? someone have their end up in the back? thoughts about this? yes. >> there was a reporter that made a comment about michelle obama. it was kind of, he made

we sent a request to san francisco state university for a response many times. we met with them last year and this year. their response, i'm just going to be brief outline. maximum time for an education program is defined in the federal regulations and no longer than 100 percent of the program. while we agree with that, these students were admitted under prior policy which was only transfer units at the city college level. now they are counting everything which is hundreds of unites for disabled students which automatically disqualify them for financial aid. units and remedial units. we have not seen that. it allows for exception, but the policy is not clear. it's not listed openly and they have not adopted a policy for disabled students. they are allowing 1 year appeals and rubber stamping them but that student is considered to be on probation vment yet they are doing what they can do. they are saying these regulations are on a timely progression for program completion. every institution says they must have these bench marks in place. while we agree, we feel th

howard university and university of carolina at chapel hill are facing lawsuits.rika, those lawsuits allege that the colleges routinely discriminate against asian americans solely on the basis of race. >> thank you so much. >> let's bring in amy how now to talk more about this case in front of the supreme court. she is the editor of the scotus blog. whether the high court decides to review this or not what affect conditional have on affirmative action overare all do you think? >> that's the interesting question because in 2003, in a case, the supreme court held that the university of michigan law school could consider race, could use affirmative action as one factor in its admissions process so that it could have a diverse student body. abigail fisher isn't actually asking the supreme court to overrule that 2003 decision. in their decision two years ago they sent the case back that the lower courts were to take another look. they said that the courts shouldn't just take a university's worth for it, that it needs to use affirmative action to have a diverse student

so are amridge university, hodges university, our lady of holy cross college, the university of texas at brownsville and armstrong atlantic. if i am a student at harvard i am nearly 100% likely to graduate in four years. but if i go to amridge university in alabama or hodges university in florida, based on the data from the 2007 cohort i have zero chance of graduating in four years assuming i am a first time full-time student. if i go to our lady of holy cross college, i have a 5% chance of graduating in four years. among african-american students or a quarter of the student body, only 7% of first-time full-time students graduate within six years. at the university of texas at brownsville where 90% of students are hispanic, only 9% of first-time full-time students graduate within four years. and admittedly there are problems with the graduation rates, they are not perfect but it gives us a snapshot of what is happening. schools with sad stories of performance are accredited and receive title four funds, but students have no way of knowing what they are getting into as they take out lo

a georgetown university president the other day.red out how much a family or student cam afford it. to ask the student to bar up to $4500 a year. to ask the student to work 10 to 15 hours a week and the university pays the rest risk of georgetown-based $100 million a year to help pay $60,000 a year at georgetown. so for many students so-called elite universities are a table. despite all this some people still need money and so you can borrow money. we hear a lot about student loan's, taxpayers generous enough is borrowing for can't be good investment for our students borrowing too much works one way to answer this is to compare student loans to automobile loans. when i was 25 bought my first car, and i had to get a loan. i was outraged the bank made my father cosines alone because i know assets or no credit rating. it took my car as collateral and senate debate the money back in three years. compare that to student loan today. taxpayers will donate up to 6000 a6000of the year, in addition to the pell grants aikido have to pay back.

but at these research universities, they were 29%. and students of color were 41% of the students at two-year colleges. so you see a disparity there. and overall, of the research universities only nine of them are institutions that have a specific mission of serving communities of color. hispanic serving institutions, tribal colleges and historically black colleges. so the first step for addressing some of these inequities is to look at the cuts that have happened to public education. after the recession in 2008, many state governments had to cut back their funding for colleges. our research has shown that 29 states decreased their overall total investment in higher education. and 44 states decreased their investment on a per student basis. we also found that institutions that served a higher proportion of students of color were particularly hard hit in these -- with these cuts. so one of the things that c.a.p. has proposed to sort of address this situation is a program we call the public college quality compact. this would be a feder

congratulations on being a graduate of one of the greatest universities in the world oklahoma state university. god bless you all. [ applause ] >>> u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia delivered remarks at oklahoma state university commencement ceremony. he served as undersecretary of the u.s. army from 2009 to 2014. he says the challenges for this generation include violent extremism, climate change population growth, and religious and cultural differences. >> good afternoon everyone. good afternoon to graduates of politics and agriculture. great to be with you. mr. president, thanks for the honor bestowed on me this morning and the honor of allowing me to address this class. students, i think we thanked a lot of people and i think we have missed one of the most important elements in your lives, they're all sitting around this arena. so i think you should give your folks, your families and friends a big hand for what they've done to get you here. in 1970 45 years ago, i graduated from college and attended my commencement. in 2060, 45 years from now, some of you will be attending or giving a commen

a scheme at sydney university aims to tackle that.as reports. >> reporter: sydney university is one of australia's most prestigious, but traditionally like most australian universities, its student base hasn't been very diverse. numbers of inning taj news students have been particularly low. aboriginal people make up 3% of australia's population but 1% of university students. >> we talk to local aboriginal communities and it surprised me that so many aboriginal people still think universities are a place you go to learn how to be less aboriginal. so we have got a challenge. >> reporter: sydney is trying to tackle that challenge. the entry requirements for indigenous students are lower than for nonindigenous ones, some aboriginal students are given liker workloads during their first year and perspective indigenous high school students are invite today a week-long taste of university life. >> i think that it will be wonderful to come here. i think the facilities are fa fault. the teachers are wonderful. even the students are so friendly

the university of california. sour 23-state campus university system and our expansive university college system with 112 colleges and a pretty generous financial aid program targeted at students based on need, not merit. which unfortunately too many states, i believe, in the nation focus on. our own research as part of this series of papers that were just handed to you on the the state of higher education in california actually demonstrate to you i think, why race analysis still matters. latinos in our research, we found, are more, you know the good news is more and more are graduating from high school and going to college as ron mentioned before. but unfortunately they are disproportionately represented at every sector of higher education. so in spite of our expansive california higher education system latinos are not represented in relation to their numbers of the population at any of those institutions. whether it's community colleges. for-profit colleges, inspent colleges or the university of california, and

how the university got creative to incentivize students to look elsewhere for housing. maureen: doug hill has time to avoid if you have outdoor plans this weekend. >> bryce harper how long will he be out and how will they replace him? the answers when "abc7 news at 6:00" con leon: move off campus and get a gift card. that is the proposal for dealing with the housing crunch. the deadline to accept the offer was this week. mike conneen reports that offer was just not good enough. mike: this month, american university sent out an e-mail to students offering a $500 gift card and the waiver of a $500 housing termination fee for students who cancel the resident hall assignment for the fall. >> $400 wasn't that much of an centive to take it. mike: she and others said it would only go so far especially this late in the year. it would be hard to find affordable off-campus housing. freshmen are unhappy they are assigned to triples. the university points out in fall of 2013the new hall opened on campus to offer 350 beds for students. that same year, nebraska hall got an addition g

bush addressed the graduating class at southern methodist university. 2015 is the university's anniversary. it opened 100 years ago. [ applause ] >> thank you all. thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much. president turner, thanks. members of board of trustees provost, faculty staff, distinguished guests, parents, most importantly the class of 2015. i thank you for your warm welcome. i appreciate the invitation to be with you. you know when i mentioned this speech to some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. i haven't given a commencement speech since leaving office. my decision is quite practical. i got a phone call from my landlord. gerald turner. rare than raising the rent or threatening to hold our security deposit, i was relieved to hear president turner ask if i believed in free speech. [ laughter ] i said yeah. he said perfect. here's your chance to give one. proud member of the smu community, i am honored to be here truly honored to deliver the 100th commencement address. i admire president turner's persuasiveness and his leadership. he runs a fantastic univers

on the university campuses, it. on the university campuses, it's actually not that difficult. people who are giving money to them, the alumni who are giving money need to inform themselves about what is happening and they need to complain about it and they need to say knock it off. you either need to say who you are or i'm to stop giving money to you. there's a reason universities do you. there's a reason universities do not advertise themselves as being an authoritarian group because nobody supports that. i think that if people really inform themselves about what going on and stand against it that's the only way to stem this tide. >> how long did it take you to write the book approximately? >> i wrote it in about four months. it was me locked in a room, me and my little dog. i wrote it, i wanted to write it to get it out but because i thought it was such an important topic and i thought it was so timely. i really felt like i had to move quickly and get it out so this is something we could start engaging in our culture to talk about because i just don't think people really rea

. >>> efforts by australian university to increase the pitiful numbers of students the aim may be good are the right indigenous students being reached? ♪ ♪ welcome back, good to have you with us, i'm julie and remind of the headlines, in the last few minutes the president of the european commission defended the bailout package offered to greece and he says it's a demanding package but a fair one, share prices around europe tumbled as markets opened in reaction to the growing crisis in greece. burundi president zizi says it's a good day for country as people vote in parliamentary elections but they are not monitoring the vote saying it's not free or fair and boycotting the poll. and immediate public prosecutor injured in the attack in cairo, a bomb targeted his car behind the military academy and three others have been taken to the hospital. the syrian army says it captured territory from i.s.i.l. as fighting rages in the northeast and i.s.i.l. launched to get government-held areas on thursday and they pushed them back south of the city and kurdish forces say they are making gains in th

so we have been very encouraged with the spread of the idea that in the 21st century universal public support just started pre-k to go deep into college that is the way we will continue to provide access and create opportunity and have the affordability question as well. >> so with that discussion and there is a lot of focus to simplify the income based repayment system and you talked about that. those say that discussion is to narrow at unprecedented levels of debt we hear the drumbeat there should be access to debt-free higher education and that should be the goal and we should find a way to finance that. what is the administration think of that goal is that a reasonable or counterproductive? >> it certainly is on the table so we are talking about thinking about it. rethink affordability does not necessarily end up at zero so there is a lot of distance to be made up from where we are and zero to make sure we are focused on that. >> you talk about those unintended consequences is that what you are suggesting ? >> honestly i have not thought enough about it. >> that we have significan

my question is what is the universe expand into? i'm more interested in the space outside the universe. just for a name, i don't know what you all call the. i will call it outer space or universe of space. is anything scientists even think about our study are speculate about or is it of electors to scientists? >> there are some images that could be given and the experimental evidence seems to point to one answer. the best we have is that you shouldn't ask about outside because the universe as far as we know it is infinite. there isn't any outside. that matter that we see within a few billion light-years of earth continues beyond that out to infinity. and it's all expanding it's not expanding from any center but the expansion does not mean like what would happen in this room if anyone started running away from a central point and maybe expand out into the parking lot. the expansion, you can imagine a universe filled with, not with people but with galaxies and they are all rushing away from each other. there is no center and there is

in an e-mail response to wusa9 a university spokeswoman wrote, "howard university considers this matter closed and has no further comment." >> there is a 100% free discrimination like here at louder because we're so diverse. >> reporter: though some student -- howard because we're so diverse. >> reporter: though some students might argue that point. >> every howard student feels personally tried by the administration it. has nothing to do with race. it's just the administration. >> reporter: others are just tired of the distraction and not necessarily from school. >> i think howard students just don't want to be distracted by this. i think it's a distraction from the larger issues that affect african people in this country and throughout the global. so we don't sit around and talk about a white girl trying to be black. >> reporter: following the dismissal of that discrimination lawsuit which was filed in 2002 dolezal was ordered to repay howard university for their court fees which totaled more than $2,700. live in northwest at howard university i'm mola lenghi for wusa9. >> lots of rea

-- to investigate the university. . >> to be honest, i don't want to be here today. i am frustrated. i am angry. i am sad. i am disappointed that i need be here to do what is the right thing. >> they would like to see experts brought in to help adjudicate claims. >> thank you. >>> firefighters in santa clara county are looking into what caused a wildfire today. 5 acres burned along the coyote reservoir road in gilroy. there is no word of damage or injuries and no word on what started the fire. that fire is another reminder of the dangers we are facing. firefighters are concerned, ktvu's john sasaki is live with the warning tonight from firefighters about fireworks and the problems they pose. john? 78 one of -- >> reporter: one of the problems was over the weekend, a small fire that may have been sparked by fireworks. >> reporter: you can see the burned out area and you can see how much housing is around it. >> any vegetation is prime to burn. that scares us. especially with illegal fireworks. >> reporter: saturday morning fire burned a half acre. witnesses told firef

at the same time it could help the university crackdown on crime. for someone who has been sexually assaulted reporting it to police can feel like an impossible and traumatizing next step. >> you need to do something about it that takes them out of conviction i guess and your memory and what happened to you. >> the university of san francisco is piloting an on-line option. they allow the victim to write up an account of what happened. >> they ask trauma informed questions along the way. when they answer a question they can click on a button that says why are we asking this question? >> the student can choose to save the file or send it to the university. >> it is a touchy suggest. for somebody to do it anonymously or not having to interact with other people is a good option. >> the site has a matching system if the victim knows their uhing tayer. >> they can put an identifying telephone number or name or e-mailing into the system. if it is matched by somebody else it automatically goes to the university and we can stop repeat offenders. the match wo

originally, the first reactor that was developed was at the university of chicago. and whom we all heard of was the principal scientists that developed that reactor. he did it in the squash cord of stag field which is where football used to be played at the university of chicago. they weren't playing football anymore. so that's where he ended up. in the squash courts under the grand stands at stag field. he produced the first nuclear reactor. and proved that a self-sustaining nuclear reaction could be created and maintained. and that's what you have to have in order to produce plutonium is a chain reaction. but government said this is not the place to be messing around with nuclear reactors in downtown chicago. and so we're going to buy a tract of land somewhere. they ended up in east tennessee. they bought 100 square miles down here. and the purpose of this facility at oak ridge, it wasn't oakridge at that time. it was just farm communities. the purpose here was to not only build what we know today as the graphite reactor to produce these trace amounts of plutonium

miss usa and miss universe off the air. "celebrity apprentice" looking for a new host as nbc cuts ties over his controversial comments about immigrants from mexico. "nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news world headquarters in new york this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. with one dead the other now in custody and reportedly talking to police the sordid tale of how those two escaped new york killers planned to make their getaway is all coming out. and it involved among other things murder and a brazen run for the border. of course it all quickly unraveled as soon as they got outside the prison walls. and yet for three weeks they somehow eluded a dragnet, the likes of which we've rarely seen. tonight our stephanie gosk takes us inside one of their hideouts as stunning new details of their escape plan emerge. >> reporter: with two gunshot wounds david sweat was rushed to a hospital in albany. in serious condition, he is already talking. sweat says he and fellow escapee richard ma

he was also a professor at atlanta university and atlanta university is another complex of historically black colleges, belongs to that group of historically black colleges and universities. so, he was not only an artist, but he was also an educator. and his belief was that you could use art to talk about issues of social justice. and so, for talladega, they wanted to get in on the anniversary, the anniversary of the mutiny would have been in 1939. they commissioned him in 1938. it was quite a feat for him to be able to do this huge project in a year, but he managed to do it. in this gallery, we will focus on the murals that tell the story of the emma stone mutiny. -- and the start -- amistad mutiny. it is a very exciting story and a positive one that shows the ability of these enslaved africans to take their destiny into their own hands. they are captured near sierra leone by slave traders. and they end up being able to take over the second ship. the first ship, they get to cuba and are put on a smaller ship, and they're able to take the ship over themselves. and they managed to make t

she reported her alleged assault to both the missoula police and the university. dean of students thought there was enough evidence to recommend the quarterback's expulsion. athletic director jim o'day disagreed. >> i said playing football is a privilege. we can take that away from this young man, but let's not ruin his life until we let the proper authorities investigate. >> a major shake up rocks the university of montana this morning. >> reporter: talking back to the dean may have cost him his job, o'day says. the next day he and robin pflugrad, the football coach, were let go and then another shock hit the town. in may 2012, federal investigators descended on missoula based in part on an anonymous title ix complaint. >> the fact that there was an actual outside source coming in and looking at all of this, i felt like something was finally happening. >> reporter: the school's entire track record on handling alleged sexual assaults, not just those by footballs, was under scrutiny. but the feds didn't stop there. they also wanted to know if the missoula police de

go to allen university.s, i would make the trip up i-26, to columbia, south carolina, for all those years to be with my friend on the campus of allen university. that is where i met crazy chris vaughn. after we graduated from college, the way things happened, god ordained it. i became the first black minority recruiter for the college of charleston and somehow god orchestrated that he became a recruiter for allen university. and so it was that we were together again on the road to conferences and high schools in the state of south carolina. i would set up my college of charleston table and before i could put the college of charleston sign out good, i had a thousand people in my line. he was there at the allen university table, and he barely had one. i said, pinckney, what i'm going to do, i'm going to set up my table next to your table and so it will be that when an individual comes to my table, i'm going to push them over to the allen university table. he loved allen university. when we taught, the college

avenue we're jammed from passyunk to university. watch for that traffic the left lane remaining blocked, we have fire crews on the scene we're seeing people low slow down, westbound near university. i know the camera is shaky but i wanted to show you the shot. problem on the schuylkill expressway problem on i-95. southbound traffic particularly heavy at cottman we've got an accident blocking the left lane, southbound jammed from woodhaven to cottman an early heavy delay on i-95 as well as the one we talked about on the schuylkill expressway. one more issue this is the ramp from vine street expressway eastbound to 8th street. we've watched police all morning, the traffic lights are out at the ramp just give a little extra caution as you head there, police on hand trying to direct you around the problem. you've been talking about the fire location in south harrison, you can watch this with chopper 6 live on the scene route 45 at monroeville road. causing restrictions on 45. stick to mullica hill road as they deal with the fire locatio

we are broadcasting from stanford university in california.california, a state that is now in its fourth straight year of drought. this week new mandatory water restrictions went into effect, with residents required to cut back water use by a net total of 25%. just thursday, the u.s. drought monitor said a wet may that led to greener pastures in some areas failed to bring any relief and "the sprouting of grasses will most likely provide extra fuel for early fall wildfires once the vegetation dies off this summer." meanwhile, a new study by the university of california, davis finds that in 2015 alone, the drought will cost the state's farmers and agricultural industry $2.7 billion and more than 18,000 jobs. the study noted -- "the socioeconomic impacts of an extended drought, in 2016 and beyond, could be much more severe." all this comes as the death toll from an ongoing heat wave in india has topped 2300, making it the fifth deadliest in recorded history. india's earth sciences minister, harsh vardhan, said -- "it's not just an unusually hot s

congratulations on being a graduate of one of the greatest universities in the world oklahoma state university. god bless ya'll. [applause] >> the graduates of local mr. university also her commencement remarks from u.s. ambassador to saudi arabia joseph westphal who talked about the challenges facing future generations. ambassador westphal previously served as the undersecretary of the u.s. army from 2009-2014. his speech is 20 minutes. >> gowell, good afternoon, everybody. good afternoon graduates of the college of business and agriculture. it is great to be with you and mr. president, thank you for the honor that you bestowed on me this morning and for the honor of allowing me to address this class. students i think we think a lot of people and i think with this one of the most important elements in your lives and they are all sitting all around the arena. i think you should give your folks, your family and your friends that they can't for what they've done to get you here. [applause] now in 1970 which was 45 years ago, graduated from college and attended my commencement. in 2060, which is

at the same time it could help the university crackdown on crime. for someone who has been sexually assaulted reporting it to police can feel like an impossible and traumatizing next step. >> you need to do sometng about it that takes them out of conviction i guess and your memory and what happened to you. >> the university of san francisco is piloting on-line option. they allow the victim to write up an account of what happened. >> they ask trauma informed questions alonthe way. when they answer a question they can clickn a button that says why arewe asng this question? >> the student c choose to save the file or send it to the university. >> it is a touchy suggest. for somebody to do it anonymously or not having to interact with other people is a good option. >> the site has a matching system if the victim knows their uhing tayer. >> they can put an identifying telephone number or name or e-mailing into the system. if it is tched by somebody else it automatically goes to the university and we can stop repeat offenders. the match would launch an in

mike: university points out in fall 2014 the new hall at on cap is adding 380 beds. that same year nebraska hall got an additional 200 40 beds. construction is underway on the new campus on the other side of nebraska campus. it will feature more academic buildings in residence halls, adding 590 beds. before 2015 demand has outpaced supply. students complain that universities do this all the time excepting to many students expecting >> a certain number will drop out. >>>> my freshman year and subsequent years there were students living in lounges. mike: in a statement the university said they are trying to balance the commitment to students and community and are working diligently to ensure satisfactory housing options for students. it is unclear how many accepted the incentive offer or if there were enough volunteers to clearly waitlist. in northwest, mike conneen. kellye: coming up on washington weekly, artists left in the large after ponying up a lot of cash. the agency that kept actors waiting in the wings for a shot at stardom a kellye: dozens of aspiring actors

the lawsuit she filed against howard university. >> shark attacks put beach goers on edge. two beach goers lost arms in an attack 90 minutes apart. >> and the announcement -- >> i'm a candidate for president -- >> how that is shaping the landscape next. >> and first at 11:00 the head of an naacp chapter stepping down. that's after rachel's patients came forward to say she is not black but it's just the start. we uncovered new details about her past including a discrimination lawsuit she filed against the university. jay has the top story. jay? >> jonathan when she was a graduate student here at howard she sued the university for discrimination based on the fact that she was white. >> the fire storm surrounding rachel has taken another bizarre turn. she has stepped down after the parents told the world their daughter has been posing as black when they insist she is white. the court document showing her married and known as rachel moore sued howard university when she was in graduate school. she claimed the university and chair of the department denied her financial aid at th

. >> so with your idea is, of one is the idea to get colleges and universities to have a sheriff risk for the loans that go into default. >> i think we have always thought of colleges and universities need to share in accountability for outcomes so risk sharing is one of the ideas in the overall bucket that we are keenly interested to engage as pardners. >> a thing in particular? day regulate the accreditation and process to become the accredited institution with federal stallone's? >> the president in the "state of the union" also addressed this and i think what we regard as the twin problems of accreditation and one is that we think there needs to be more rigor in the accreditation process and also more flexibility. so we are working on a set of proposals. >> day you have a and advisory commission? is a tour the altman solution? >> we are still working it out. >> with two years of free community college you receive a pretty stormy reception. are you tweeting it to get off the runway? >> bell legislative process is one but at the same time we have been heartened by these conversation