rockwell chair at the university of texas at austin, with teaching stints at arizona state and the university of colorado at denver. he helped establish the sustainable sites initiative, the first program of its kind to offer a comprehensive rating system to define sustainable land development and management. dean steiner is the author or editor of numerous publications include design with nature now, nature and cities, urban ecological design and the living landscape and ecological approach to landscape planning. he will be talking to us this morning about olmsted's and land grant universities and after he completed his presentation we'll have an opportunity for q&a with the two speakers. dean steiner. [ applause ] >> bringing up the notes here. mascot. i w >> probably the best thing about being a speaker is when you can take your mask off. so i want to thank dede for a wonderful introduction and mark for remembering an old paper i wrote about land grant universities some decades ago. my first faculty job was at washington state university in pullman in the region of the pacific northwest. t

now the university of rhode island. which continued with the emergent of the olmsted brothers in the 20th century. the olmsted and elliott plan organize the rhode island campus. i found this particularly interesting especially in the light of lori's remarks. in the 1890s remember there was a plan for washington university and stanford which emphasize the use of the quadrangle and laurie had a wonderful quote some angles can be good. what you see here is a shift in the orientation of the olmsted senior curbing road approach. to the quadrangle. it's before-and-after what was called college hall burned down and replaced by davis hall in this represents a change where we see more of an emphasis of quadra angles. the covariates remain but it also reflects john olmsted's contribution. like the other work the olmsted's provided very detailed design to realize their plan with the rhode island campus for example this concluded plaintiff designs and scientific and popular name plants and for the land-grant institution, they also

and the campus hand much fewer trees than the campuses at the universities where i studied, even universities in urban settings at cincinnati in philadelphia. nine miles due east of pullman it is a town called moscow and it is the home of the university of idaho. and moscow was by far the more charming college town in part because of the many bars and restaurants. the drinking age in the late 1970s was 19. students wanting to get as far away and still pay instate tuition -- only a few miles they could go away to drink. -- drinking and skiing in northern idaho, and summers of fishing and working in cabins in alaska while earning their bachelors degree. so stepping on to the university of idaho campus was arrive revelation. it was also a land grant university but with a more liberal arts background than its washington cousin. i wondered if the 227 foot elevation change from pullman that had accounted for the greater number of trees on the idaho campus, as the palouse gave away to the bitter root mountains behind moscow. soon, however, i discovered the olmsted brothers had designed the heart of

i spentnt about ten years teachg college at george mason university, american university. >> host: andt was your experience like? >> it was an interesting environment to put it mildly. many good positive things came out of it both in terms of college i work with and the research that i did. i also got to see the inside behind the scenes of what happens in the way a university runs. >> and what did you find? >> my immediate take on it is, if we judged a university just as a normal business operation there are things that happen in universities that would make things like enron look ethical by comparison. >> give us an example. >> the first thing is the weight universities and market themselves through students. if you go to any university they have literature they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities. their promising high and mighty things but every student that comes to their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results was coming out of the university system it's a range of degrees. some are not

they go out and encourage students to over apply to their universities.tudents they're never intending to take so harvard, princeton, gayle and you harvard, princeton or yale up apply that's one more rejection it makes it more exclusive. it's an extremely unethical act it's wasting people's time, wasting their money, leading them on increase the prestige of the university and the ranking systems. >> what was your college experience would you do it differently today? >> i went to a small liberal arts college for undergraduate. graduate school phd and a large public university taught at both types of institutions. i see some similarities some differences i offer the same advice into the high school students when i talk to them today, think about it strategically. pick a major base out what you think will be suited and trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path, hobby or consumption in life. in other words, think a way to get to college efficiently. one thing i would have done is continuing in the community college credit not the general educa

. >> i have, i spent 10 years teaching college at george mason university american university derrycollege written all over the united states . >> what wasyour experience like ? >> it was an interesting environment. to put it mildly. many good positive things that came out of it both in terms of college i worked with the research that i did but i often have a behind-the-scenes of what happened in the way that a university learns. >> what did you find? >> my immediate take on it is that if you judge the university just as a normal business operation, there are things that happen at universities that would make something like enronmake odd by comparison . >> i think the first thing is the way the university markets themselves through students because if you go to any university in america they present themselves as you're going to get a world-class education and open all sorts of possibilities so their promising high and mighty things every student that comes through their system is going to get. but when you actually look at the results of what's coming out of theuniversity system , it's a

to when the universe was only hundreds of millions of years. all that's when the 1st stars were made, the 1st galaxies, and we have a chance of getting the scientific version of the story of genesis lead there be lies of that reason. manson by avi, which is basically that need that quest. that humanity is thought as quite some time ago to understand how the universe begin. yeah, there is definitely, you know, i've been reporting on space in space science over decades now. and one thing that you've learned in that time is people absolutely have this. it's sort of inherent, need to understand what's going on with this universe around us. and you know, whether people do that with like religion or science or some combination of the 2. but it's, it's definitely one of those things as of whenever you, you get these big missions ultimately the, the question comes down to like, why do people put on these missions? and it's just that the fundamental human need to know what's out there and to understand what web is going to be really good tool tool box.

and how did the universe thought? absolutely, we are on the field with could your city remember that that is causing venting over for only 400 years ago and then you've got the low could see what we are doing today. this is absolutely amazing. i mean, this telescope cannot serve from the very beginnings of the of the universe. the 1st light of the 1st start that 1st galaxies to the formation of solar systems. because now we know, i mean, if newton galileo all these people, they knew their mental blandness. i mean, more than 4000 blindness already discovered by this space telescopes actually lay the couple of mission. and with this plan, is that going to be explore even further? they're trying to say find the, as i said, he said that signatures for life, especially oxygen. when you have free oxygen in douglasville planet data in equipment cali, almost a signature for life or photosynthesis for micro your life. or this kind of thing. formation will fall, our system formation. life itself plus examining the planets in ou

i spent about 10 years teaching college at george mason university, american university, and barry college, all over the united states. >> and what is your experience like? >> well, it was an interesting environment to put it mildliment many good positive things came out of it in terms of colleagues that i worked with and the research that i did and a look inside at behind the scenes that happens in the way that a university learns. >> and what did you find? >> well, my immediate take it, and just an institution, looking at enron in comparison. >> give us an example. >> the way that universities market themselves to america, you go to any university, glossy literature, you're going to get a first class education and high and mighty things that every student is going to get, but when you look at the results of what's coming out of the university system, it's at the range of degrees that many so of them are not worth the money that you're paying for, so students are leaving with a massive amount of debt, but very little in the way of job prospects. there's often promises that i made that sim

, new york university, baltimore, and oberlin.y worked at annapolis and west point and dozens of land grant colleges. among these were wisconsin, kansas, colorado, oregon, on and on the list goes. there's an enormous range however in their work from schemes that have become iconic such as those at stanford and duke when you're going to hear about from cathy blake and mark huff to projects that were at times more formulaic. at their very best, this work demonstrates as clearly as any of the diverse plans of the firm's best known member, frederick olmsted sr., a concern and a genius for engendering a social sensibility. how was it that this partner and his colleagues and sons working through the tumult of america in the decades after the civil war, how was he available to invent a new landscape, a new typology, a paradigm that has become emblematic of american higher education and has been emulated around the world on university campuses? what did olmsted know and when did he know it? it's commonly understood that the antecedent of

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of chicago, we turn, while the sly, williams, university of washington, johns hopkins, ohio state, universityof pennsylvania, new york university, baltimore, and oberlin. it's an incredible list of famous and philosophy in this institutions. they worked in annapolis, west point, and in dozens of land grant colleges as you're going to hear about from fred stein or later. among these were wisconsin, michigan, illinois, iowa, kansas, colorado, oregon, on and on the list goes. there's enormous range however, in the work from schemes that have become iconic, such as those acts stanford and duke, which are going to hear about from kathy bleak, to projects that were more modest and at times rather formulaic. at their very best, this work demonstrates clearly as any of the diverse plans of the firms best known member frederick law olmsted sr. a concern and genius for entering and during a social vision for a given place and situation. how was it that this partner and his colleagues and sense, working through the tumult of america and the decades after the civil war, how was he able to invent a new la

she earned an mba from clark, atlanta university. and a ba from the tennessee state university.me. dr. glover: thank you. sherman wilson, chairman scott, ranking member murphy, ranking member fox, and members of the committee, thank you for allowing this important dialogue on the record regarding hbcus. i am linda glover. i service the president of tennessee state university in nashville. tennessee state is a comprehensive urban land-grant hbcu with over 8000 students offering degrees as bachelor, master and doctoral levels. our country cannot reach his goals without strong, sustainable hbcus. those necessary to close the education gap, the health cap, the wealth and economic apps. hbcus have changed the landscape. they have made in norman's contributions. they have changed, despite ending -- continuous showering of limited resources. hbcus account for just 3% of colleges in the country, and they produced 22% of bachelor's degrees earned by african americans was 10 degrees for 50% of african americans goals which are 50% of african american lawyers, if you percent of african ame

you will be a major milestone in our knowledge of the universe. really fascinating to see how humanity is using extensive his own senses to further gaze into the heavens and look for small details, but about to make massive difference in this life of the lo, elizabeth pearson for francisco. diego really appreciate your insight into can forward to talking to you in the near future when the 1st image is from jumps with, with it being into our living room. thank you. thank you for watching your can see the program again. any time by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com for further discussion goes our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside. or you can also join the conversation on twitter. i would 100 is at $8544.00. mm hm. how about on the entire team here in dallas? ah ah. in 2002 coins and back lord small the launch of the euro. today is the official currency of 19 of the 27 member states of the european union. on the 20th anniversary of the euro entering circulation, al jazeera investigates how the eurozone benefited f

this is our university. this is our chance to say no to the corporate university here and now. not goldman sachs. amy: professor jack halberstam will be joining us in minute. today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university from 8:00 to 6:00 i not crossing the picket line. they're asking professors and students not to go to classes, not to hold classes. one of their slogans is "new york is still a uniontown and member of other units are expected to join and solidarity. for more, we're joined the professor jack halberstam, professor of english and gender studies at columbia university. and by johannah king-slutzky, a phd student in the english and comparative literature department at columbia university. rank and file member of student workers of columbia. let's begin with you. this is the largest strike in the united states that is going on right now. can you tell us why you're striking? it is nothe first strikey the columbia students this year. klux that's right. thank you for having me on this program. this is our second strike this year.

of chicago, williams, the university of washington, johns hopkins, ohio state, the university of pennsylvania, new york university, baltimore, and dublin. it is incredible the list of famous and less famous institutions they were in west point, dozens of land-grant colleges that you will hear about nader, among these were wisconsin, michigan, i, iowa, kansas, oregon, the list goes, there is an enormous range from working in schemes that become iconic which it does it stanford and duke witchel hear about from kathy and mark two projects that are more modest and rather formulaic. at the very best this demonstrates as a diverse plan best known members of the homestead senior i concern where gender as social in the given in place and situation. how was it list partner and his colleagues and sons to the decades of the civil war how was he able to invent a new landscape a new paradigm for educational environments that is emblematic of american higher education enable made it around the world sense for university campuses and to answer this i think we should probably ask what did he know and when di

i spent 10 years teaching college at george mason university, american university all over united states. >> what was your experience like? >> well it was an interesting environment to put it mildly. both in terms of colleagues that i worked with in the resources i had. i also got to see behind the scenes what happens in the way the university learns. >> what did you find? >> my immediate thought is just an operation it makes enron look ethical byik comparison. the first thing is the way universities market themselves to students. if you got any university in america they present themselves as you are going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities so they are promising high and mighty things that everything that comes through their system, when you look at the results of system's they range of degrees that are not worth the money you are paying for and seniors are leaving with a massive amount of debt and little in the way of job prospects and their often promises that are made and you see it youtuber see them as traders looking for more money and more time o

of the faculty at the university of toronto. his book released last month shows the vital role higher education institution roles have in liberal democracy. it is delightful he is joining us to moderate the conversation. resident daniels, thank you and over to you. president daniels: thank you. it is a pleasure and privilege to be here today and honored to be joined here today by the co-authors of the academic leaders task force on expression , governor douglas and governor gregoire, who served two terms of washington, and now ceo of challenge seattle, an alliance of the largest sector employees. jim douglas served four terms as governor of vermont, two as chair of the national governors association, and he is now executive resident -- executive in residence at middlebury college, his alma mater. thank you for being here. more than that, for the important contribution that you're making to our sector and to debate more generally within the country. with that said, a simple starting question. whatever possessed you to take on a r

i did not imagine this would be a university at all. new, didn't give me the vibe of a traditional university that you see on tv shows. hearing that it's mostly dedicated to dance and performing arts — amazing to hear about, because they are normally seen as an afterthought for universities. dance and performing arts isn't usually seen as a career path. kingston, like many new universities, grew out of a hodgepodge of buildings in different locations, few of them with much wow factor. the town house is meant to be a statement, a public face. it has given the university, for the first time, a front door. it's open to the public. these staircases are social spaces leading up to the whispering gallery. the library has been mixed in with the dance studios across there. everything servicing one central overriding thought — bringing people together. there's, like, a little bar and cafe there. it is such an open and bright space. there are so many more studios, meaning the whole curriculum has changed, ourtimetable — we can have so many more c

higher education was expanding which created all these state universities including the university of alabama these were created at a time of legal segregation and state universities in order to expand higher education and this is way back in the second half of the century and then fast fast-forward, 1944 g.i. bill higher education is seen as a tool for social mobility, but doesn't have a nondiscrimination clause so this is under legal segregation. so there's a devastating story of an attempt over and over again to gain access to equitable higher education and particularly in the south although he points out in the north there is always one or two or three admitted but they were also effectively shut out if not by law than other mechanisms. the southern politician, the university administrators went to these extreme lengths to keep african-americans out. they tried to sending them out of state for education and when they couldn't do that they try to separate but equal because that was allowed when they couldn't do that they established they were never close to being equal and then the

the university of virginia or thomas jefferson cannot imagine the university of virginia without the basis of slavery. as a formal institution plays a very vital role for them to play. the funding mechanism for defendants who were sold to keep the university for. i think there may be more to do that. the institutions that were serving black and brown students is the institutions are keeping them out there is some responsibility because thein institutions are still doing remarkable work to educate the student population. i mentioned p in oklahoma the land-grant institution they have a black enrollment. it's only 1450 students. thatex enrollment in context the university of oklahoma and oklahoma state university combined only had a couple hundred more black students than they have. these institutions 40000 enrollment combined. hints are thinking about this institution and private institutions like georgetown, i think for particularly the unrestricted is maybe we think about those under restricted bequest be equitably distributed in order to help other institutions. i also think, i had

at the universities that would make something like enron look by comparison.. >> it's the way the universities market themselves because if you go to any university in americay they present themselves and you're going to get yourself a world-class education and open up possibilities. when you look at the results is a range of degrees so students are leaving massive amounts of debt and others often promises made that are not delivered on and operating where theyor are just trying to get more money and time out of students spent on campus. by the last century the first world war ii era although you can find traces going back for hundreds of years. there was a continuous cash flow. they came to class late with 250 years later still taking place. the other end of that literature where you start having to ask those questions it wouldn't be the type of career path that we would be looking for. you talk about education classes. if there is about a third of the college experience. with all of these things that you're supposed to take to be a well-rounded a student. unfortunately over many decades it i

, ., ., , universe? it is going to give us the first opportunity — universe? to give us the first opportunity to look _ universe? it is going to give us the first opportunity to look at - universe? it is going to give us the first opportunity to look at small. first opportunity to look at small planets, rocky whirls around very small stars, very unlike other son, but these planets are in their habitable zone, temperatures cold enough for water to exist. it will look at these x0 planets and see if they have atmosphere. we will look at what makes up these planets, and this is the best way to do that. essentially, if they are so far away, we are looking back at time aren't we? this is the light now arriving without the telescope is. telescopes are an amazing time machines, they take is a huge way back into the universe's past. james webb telescope is going to take us even further. it is actually going to show us the first light formed after the big bang, we are looking back billions of billions of years here. it will tell us what galaxies just to look like and se

it really gets into looking at college presidents in university chancellors.acial policies and practices both on campuses and beyond campuses. when we think about black institution building and black americans in general a lot of our most pressing racial issues over time have been deeply intertwined with institution of higher education. you can go down the list. the book really looks at the question of governments -- which is pivotal to all of our education but especially when you think about black colleges and institutions of higher education. .. headlines around affirmative action. we think of the most selective especially white within higher education but when you look at the origins, think about what college and their role of the federal level the white house in conversations with congress around shaking affirmative action geared toward historical plaque black colleges and universities so you think about institution building, black colleges and universities is the idea of asking of the role of college president over time shaping these policies both to adva

about the university. the duke university grounds are superficially attractive but on closer inspection there thrice deficient. the aesthetic quality has many inviting qualities. it has buildings that are mechanically useless while woodlands are being destroyed by improper cultural techniques and lack of foresight and care of the land. the president abusive practices must be stopped at once. . the constituencies at a campus or fast. the students are more engaged than the used to be. i think that is probably cyclical. we haven't really talked about the faculty. when you have a faculty that has a forestry department, when you have a faculty that has a design school, these people are engaged. this is their community. you will get all of this input, some wanted more than others, and all of that layers in the decision process. i am sure that lori, and michael, and others can talk about complicated university clients. but there are all of these different layers involved. so whether or not, however much that comp

the farm architecture is before the university.onsisted of a lot of wood buildings and a lot of wood structure. and the corresponding landscape is farm roads, open lands and exotic cactuses. it was fashionable in that day to have exotic gardens and because of the railroads jane was able to bring in caches from arizona and other places it was like the collection. the sandstone campus was next that was the richard in a collision olmsted days. this is some of the elements of the stanford campus. the sandstone era, then we've got into the beaux-arts area and by then finkel and brown were hired at the university architects. they did a lot of more informal buildings and the style is a little bit different. the corresponding landscape was also very much more a little bit more formalized. it started its demise cecum see they put the green library it was a library right on the middle of the main axes then they all started to build housing not on the grid in its own little relationship so that a series of east-west quadrangle's moving west s

university education is about.ch as anything, because they had this strange vision about inviting in the public, getting the library and dance studios together, trying to create a sort of social hub will. a sort of social hub? exactly, they were looking for a showpiece building and that meant not that it was to show off the building, but revealed what was happening in the building to passers—by outside. do you think this is about changing the way a university education might be? many students are not from a university background, their parents did not go, they are often first—generation. it is quite inviting. absolutely and people must feel at home no matter... that is what struck us about the university, it is so culturally diverse and we must think about integrating so many people in different ways so they feel comfortable. if it is about gender or race or about culture or religion, they all feel they should belong. it is like a little world, really, a complete little world. so you can find people who are like yo

it was very much part of james duke before duke university came along. if you look at this and can see through the glare and see the lakes and the roads coming around. and then you switch to an early master plan of 1925 you'll see more details. you can see the campus being laid out the. the idea from the beginning with the campus was going to be placed with lakes, keep that in mind hypocrisy was big and trees were big. going off the plan this is gallagher's work. pretty much everything that i found from this. and granted there is a lot of archives that were burned and not available. it was really about the homestead brothers from laying down the buildings this is where the building should go in land the land it was not like the woman's college of architects future campus and going to pretty it up this was an integral collaboration between the architect and landscape architect. it seems the homestead firm was taking the lead here. what you see this pending this is different than the traditional what they're trying to do is nestle the building into the gra

based on the amount of money that each university has, there could be a fly card with the university. this would be in the amount that would carry through not just an academic turn based on your needs. that would take care of any food issues they might have. that would totally illuminate the need for food pantries. i like the whole idea of empowering the students of that mechanism you're talking about. >> it gives students choice. anybody else? >> yes. i think what we have been talking about around raising awareness at the university administrators and winners here in the southeast, having to raise awareness of the fellow college students, raising awareness of congressional leaders and other administration but also raising awareness of the private foundations and in the private companies. this is a workplace issue. this is a workforce developing issue. you have to translate some of the research into that language to encourage their participation in the conversation. i will say that similar to what rachel has experienced, we received financial support from private foundations that have

the james web is expected to being back new clues about the origins of the universe. the new i in the sky is the successor to the legendary hubble space telescope. it's 6 and a half meter, mira makes the hubble look tiny by comparison. the james webb, the biggest telescope ever sent into space, is made up of 18 segments plated with a raise, a thin gold coating. the instrument has to be folded up to fit into the rockets nose cone. the telescope will scan the heavens using long wave infra red lights. ah, astronomers will be able to look back towards the big bang, nearly 14000000000 years ago. back to the origins of the universe and the formation of the 1st stars and galaxies. the new telescope could also prove decisive in a search for extraterrestrial life who it can probe, so called exile planets. nearly 5000 have already been discovered orbiting distance sons. the james web will monitor how exxon planets move in conjunction with the stars. trance. it's like this mean it can take a virtual fingerprint at the atmosphere of these remote worlds and assess for the 1st time