professor of higher education leadership at the boston university. wellesley of education and human development. his work has appeared in the new york times, the washington post and times higher education and on npr, cnn. he's the of privilege poor how elite colleges are failing disadvantaged students? jacoby conversation with adam harris an award winning journalist. he is a senior fellow at, the new america and author of a new state. sorry. author of a state must why america's colleges have been always been unequal and how to set them right. before joining america, he covered higher education and, national politics for six years on staff at the atlantic, where he's now a contributor. he has previously been a at the chronicle of higher education, focusing on fairer education policies and historical colleges, and a writer in residence at north carolina and at&t university. in 2021, he was named to forbes 30 under 30 list. without further ado, please me in welcoming anthony and adam. good evening, everyone. thank you so much. coming out, tony. it is gre

to sort of eliminate a lot of the dei programs and the university of texas took that and said, well, that means that we can no longer fund our multicultural enhancement center. now, that was sort of founded as a tool to help students learn some of that hidden, hidden curriculum. what is the risk that we're running now with these programs going away and how can colleges sort of redouble their efforts origin efforts to start to provide access to that hidden curriculum? >> and the hard part is, when people say like elite schools, they're always saying just a few, harvard yale, princeton and we forget about michigan, university of virginia, like university of texas, and in some respects the stakes are higher there because there are so many more students, right? there are almost like the same number of faculty. like if you do a per capita thing, there are so many more students at these positions to be ra's, to be teaching assistants and it's so different. we need these initiatives more at our state schools because so many people get involved with the craft.

, the history of this university suggests they weren't very diverse before anyway. you talk about the assumptions they make. they recruited this diverse class and expect all students to come to campus with the same amount of preparation. how do those assumptions harm their students? >> the way in which universities approach diversity is like buying a house and only saving up for the down payment. they don't think about the closing costs or other ways in which it happened. they say we paid the price and thatha is all we have to do. it annoys me to no end where they think that if we put enough black and brown faces and a couple white people that they have done their job. they don't do nearly as much to think about the policies they kept in place. there are so many things that are left unchanged despite having the first majority minority class of the fact that now you have more pell students than you ever did before. think about it.ll the university of wisconsin literally photoshopped a black student's face on the cover of their magazine at a football game because they

he is a director of washington university at the college of education and human development. his work has appeared in the new york times, washington post and times higher education and npr and cnn . he is the author of privileged poor. jack will be in conversation with adam harris, a senior fellow at the new america and author of the state must provide: why american colleges have always been unequal . before joining new american he covered education and national politics for six years on staff at the atlantic where he is now a contributing writer. previously he was a reporter at the chronicle of higher education and historical black colleges and a writer in residence at north carolina university . he was named the forbes great under authority list and join me in welcoming anthony and adam. [applause. >> good evening everyone. thank you so much for coming out, tony. it's great to be with you my brother, this is a fantastic book. excited to jump into this conversation. i wanted to start kind of was aware of the book started for you. so can you walk through what were the seeds o

private universities but you think about some of the plug public flagships as well in the political environment they are operating in now . texas recently there was a bill that passed that basically pushed universities to sort of eliminate a lot of the di programs and the university of texas to that and said that means we can no longer enfund our multicultural enhancement center. the multicultural enhancement center was founded as a tool to help students learn some of the hidden curriculum. what is the risk we are running now with these programs going away and how can colleges redouble their efforts or begin efforts to start to provide access to that. >> the hard part is people say elite schools always think of a few, harvard princeton and a standard but we forget about the university of virginia, university of texas and in some respects the stakes are higher there because there are so many more students. almost like the same number of faculty. you do it kind of as a per capita thing there are so many students at these positions to

think about it the university of wisconsin photoshopped a black student's face of the color of theiragazine at a football game they want to show they are diverse. now despite the fact his face was about this big everybody else's body was like this a big they even did a bad job at it. it was horrible if you look it t upper going to laugh at. the real thing is i was say axis is noninclusion. there's one thing to invite people in it the joke i always make and i apologize because it is what it is. if i can it's like biting a big into a southern barbecue. there are so few if any options even the greens might have might'vesomething in it. no matter what you do you are not making strides to actually make yourselff accessible. my first book a talk about the way in which for example university's eight win office hours are but the never say what they are in prep schools your faculty member at your mom or dad is a faculty member office hours or time for faculty to answer questions and be in the office. you don't know you're the first person from her school ever hear you don't know it office hou

a lot of other universities, too is that the case? >> yes. >> now, title vi says that if you receive federal money you cannot harass jews. is that true? >> that is correct. >> has the biden harris administration taken away the money of harvard? >> no. >> how about berkeley? >> no. >> how about ucla. >> no, sir. >> how about nyu. >> no. >> they have just talked. >> that is correct. >> do you think this condoned behavior at this university, these, this condoned belief that these universities and let me stated again, they believe in diversity, equity, inclusion and the right to harass jews. that is what they believe. what you do is what you believe. everything else is just cottage cheese. do you think that that is consistent with their mission as universities? >> absolutely not. above and beyond the question, it is the morality, the purpose of higher education in america. is it not? >> that is correct. >> mr. barry. you are the executive director of the arab american institute. is that correct? >> correct, sir. >> and according to your we

in addition to i hate to say it but self-inflicted damages a lot of universities do to the type of education they are providing students, universities have also become battlegrounds in the competition with our adversaries. this is not a new phenomenon. we saw it during the cold war with the soviet union and quite a lot during the war on terror thereof. we are only beginning to fully recognize it in relation to the chinese communist party. from research partnerships with military applications university investments in chinese companies tied to the weaker genocide to instances of censorship and self-censorship and police experts to monitor chinese and chinese-american students, our universities are grappling with significant challenges. on a personal note i can't tell you in my 8 years in this institution how many times our own students have told us something feels a little funny. students participating in rotc who feel they are being watched, students trying to advocate for freedom of expression and democracy in taiwan that gets censored by the university. chinese-americans, chinese students

the university creates the conditions of the speech. are there any universities that are actually asking those questions? i don't think there are. but there should be. debi: over here. >> hi. i'm ellen from ucla and i'm a historian which is where mark dollinger came to do his work. so i wanted to put a historical perspective on this here. in two or three ways. two ways about the jewish problem and one about the larger problem of universities. first of all, having been a student in universities, many, many, many decades ago and teaching in them now, i would point out that the jewish presence on campus is intellectual. i don't know the right word to use. its impact has been very different. 50 years ago, the jewish presence on campus was a force in favor of civil rights. now the jewish presence, by which i meant -- mean people who are manifestly or identify as jewish is about zionism. so that non-zionist jewish -- one could barely identify them as jews in this context. they don't identify themselves. so i'm not saying this in terms of discr

at the newbury center, a social professor of higher leadership at boston university college education human development. his work appeared in new york times, washington post and sometimes higher education and on npr and cnn. he's author of privileged poor how elite cultures of disadvantaged students. and adam harris, an award winning journalist, a senior fellow also as a state must provide while american has always been unequal and how to set them right. before joining new america, he covered higher education and national politics at the atlantic. where he's now a contributing writer. books on historically black colleges and north carolina and amc university. and he was on the forbes under 30 list. please join me in welcoming anthony. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. thank you so much for coming out. tony, it's great to be with you, my brother. congratulations. >> good to be here. >> a fantastic book and excited to jump into that conversation. i wanted to start, kind of where where the book started for you. so can you just walk us through? what were the seeds of class dismissed?

that is been a source of conflict within the university. zier you should apply about those and it does touch on this. >> will anything that interferes with other students use of facilityty university trinity feeling safe is one of the thing getting to class reading across campus the sense of think the idea so to be able to express yourself in a way that does not limit other people's access to the institution that they're paying for her part of it. so the rules that attention to that and try to find ways to accommodate the people you want to say things he wanted protest is up with but at the same time not block government and other people's access anything in some schools was a question about one of the people to students were allowed to certain areas well that's a problem obviously. so trying to balance one group of the other bit to make sure that everybody is equal access to the institution. >> is there something interesting to say about the problem that a reasonably sent or is it just a hard call is the kind of place university is an affir

at the university of connecticut alone this past year. bias complaints were filed detailing incidents of discrimination and hate speech since the conflict in gaza began on october 7th, 2023. the numbers reflect only a small part of the problem because there has also been a failure or a lapse in reporting hate crimes. and i know that our witnesses have called attention to that problem. there is a real need for more robust data in reporting hate crimes, and the reality is that the government has really failed to give us a full picture. with your invaluable help, ms. berry, we have begun to make progress on this problem since 2021, and the no hate act, i led that effort in the senate with senator moran, a key provision of that act provided grant programs as you know, to incentivize state and local law enforcement agencies to adopt measures that align with best practices, and yet, despite these efforts, we still see insufficient data related to hate crimes on campuses as well as in the community in general. so my question to you with my thanks

i'm a professor of the humanities at clover university. i'm also here as a longtime contributor and i, too, the new york review of books. which wout there. and so they've asked me participate and share today to get this going, i would like to ask a question. the premises of the charge i just read to us today. so i want to ask is there a free speech problem on campus? there are people on the left and the right who would say there is on the left, you hear complaints about limits placed on individual protesters and gatherings, pressure alumni, donors, sanction or fire teachers and right wing congressional pressure presidents caving in and those on the right instrumentalized in this conflict on the right. do you that appearances of conservative speakers have been canceled currency grounds you hear that there are very very conservative professors in our major in in some who are in some of our universities have been sanctioned or fired for speech outside uva's and then conservatives students often complain that they can't speak freely feel they c

university. it shouldn't be the operating system of the university. >> in texas, one new university is prioritizingbate to reset the marketplace of ideas. >> if our universities are screwed up, and i believe they are, that will screw up america as a whole quite quickly. [ stopwatch ticking ] >>> tonight, meet the people who sort, label, and sift through reams of data to make artificial intelligence run smoothly for american tech companies, jobs that are often farmed out to developing countries with conditions likened to sweatshops with computers instead of sewing machines. >> it's terrible to suggest how many american companies are doing wrong here and it's something they wouldn't do at home. [ stopwatch ticking ] >>> you've got to have the siren? >> espanola, new mexico, calls itself the lowrider capital of the world. and when we were there, we watched a candy-colored caravan of cars strutting their stuff. whether they hopped to the sky or sat ever so low to the ground, each lowrider we saw seemed to say, here i am. >> it's sleek, it's classic. it's beautiful. it's kind of me. [ stopwatch ticking

some of this money does stay in texas in terms of well, the university of texas is 2nd only to harvard, and the industry paid the state over $26000000000.00 in taxes and 2023 of the money has went up. but as far as it feels like it's a little bit harder now, since everything else is there's are so there's more to the story than the oil boom, creating many good jobs. this route here is going to be a back, a job site active job site. okay. maintenance side of things, these guys work in rain, snow. he go everything, there's a lot of sacrifice with it. i think a lot of people are hesitant to do that. recently, there have been massive layoffs in the industry, some of which have been triggered by fracking induced over supply. on top of that, new technology means fewer workers and wells are necessary to keep up production. we reached out to companies around midland to ask what this means for future job creation, but never heard back how it says more people are leaving than he's ever seen. that means less strict load. it would just go back home and work at whatever they can find are a lot of g

so oil ripples throughout the entire economy here where we're headed, the university of texas over millions of acres of land and the more boilers pond to the board as to which the dominant museums are from the state. also live from well money that's including the petroleum museum in the city of midland, part of quail country. everything here sits on top of the permian basin, an oil field that stretches from west texas to new mexico. there's a bunch of old oil equipment here because texas has been at the center of the us oil booms for decades. and all of these behind me are old drilling rigs. they date back to the 1920s, the 1st step and while extraction drilling a well, then come the top there. sometimes we can go look at over there actually. so when they 1st an oil, it basically explodes out of the ground due to changes and pressure. but after a while, it doesn't really explode so much anymore and you have to actually pump these are the ponds that do exactly that. but it's not a simple process to hear more about it. we spoke to brian grant, the executive director, the oil is actually trapp

our guests on the final days of the presidential race. and universitiesir art museums into spaces of voting and political discourse. ♪ >> this is the pbs news hour from the david rubenstein studio in washington and from the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at the arizona state university. amna: returning to our top story, the race for the presidency. once the final votes have been cast and tallied, the final chapter of this election season may hinge on a blue dot far from any swing state battleground. reporter: omaha democrats in deep red nebraska and body the symbol of their movement. a blue dot on the state's political landscape. nebraska law gives each congressional district its own electoral vote and the dot has come to represent how the area around omaha could go to and be critical for kamala harris. >> there is a focus on our district and you feel like you matter. >> we love the light shining on us this round. we are not being ignored. reporter: it started almost accidentally after kamala harris became the presumptive democratic no

our guest is andrew busch civics professor at the university of tennessee, associate director of the instant tute of american civics at the university, and the author of this book, reagan's victory the present annual election of 1980 and the rise of the right. here's the tally from 1980. nald reagan received 50.7% of theote and 489 electoral votes. jimmy carter, the incumbent, 41% of the vote, 49 electoral votes. and john anderson and independ that who we'll talk about shortly. 6.6% of the vote, zero electoral votes. andrew busch how did ronald reagan achieve this historic landslide election? well, there were a few things that he had to do and he did them. the first one was that he had to frame the election as a referendum on jimmy carter. that is to say jimmy carter had not had terribly successful for years. there were some things that he had had he had done well, but the country was not satisfied. the economy was not doing well. there were foreign policy crises. so reagan had to frame the issue as do you want four more years of that? he succeeded in doing that. the second thing he

next a discussion on compensation for college athletes with former university of alabama head football coach nick sabin and charles mcclellan. coach sabin endorses fare revenue pay for student athletes part of the congressional black caucus foundation's 53rd annual legislative conference in washington, d.c.. rep. sewell good afternoon, everyone. i am congresswoman terry sewall -- terri sewell the chair of the congressional black caucus foundation. welcome to the 53rd annual legislative conference. we are so excited about today's panel. i represent alabama's seventh congressional district. ham? montgomery, tuscaloosa is the road to. and my hometown of selma, alabama. and we thought it was fitting since we thought it was be fitting, since alabama and this district is home to the university of alabama, alabama state, and miles college we know that the tradition is rich and plentiful. very, very happy. i see alabama a&m in the house, so i got to say them too, which is our naming names. well, i want to welcome you not only to this conference and to the session, but to a discussion that has

what's it like studying at the university of edinburgh? and 50 years of live, we learn some facts about a tie and cuisine which may shock the pasta on of you. these stories and more coming up on your own mac. the . it's hard to imagine today the berlin was once divided by a wall for around 28 years, this iconic structure shaped the faith of the city. tomorrow's the 35th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. we explored the german capital and other places in the country and covering numerous traces of history. this here marks 35 years to the fall of the burden. was it once divided, burden in germany for decades, bringing misery to many people. so what's left of it today, and the berlin wall fell in 1989. i wasn't born yet. but later i saw the videos of the many emotional people what seemed impossible has come to a peaceful revolution. so let's start exploring the wall in berlin and germany. our 1st location is sick when charlie on physics trust, which was one of the most famous border crossings ever. it's hard to imagine today the worl

reporter: last saturday in ann arbor, the university of michigan was alive with energy. irst day of early voting with a long line of students in an and up -- unexpected place, the university's art museum. christine olson -- >> we are in a state that is hyper polarized. there has been recent history here of violence and extreme rhetoric around elections, around politics generally, i think museums are fantastically great places in which people can, especially students, especially young people, can book -- can begin their careers as voters. reporter: in an ugly time in american politics, can beauty play a small role in serving democracy? that is the goal in the project of art and civic engagement involving university museums from across the big 10, maybe -- many in midwest battleground states like here in michigan. the principles of design are being applied to voting itself. >> we realize there was a big gap between registration rates and voter rates. some of the barriers are psychological. where can design play a role? reporter: stephanie and another professor had the creed

of their lives. i am determined our universities become all i know they can be. ion demands a new approach rooted in partnership. so i look forward to partnering with the sector, the office of student and innovation and i will work closely with ministers across government in particular the secretary of state for science innovation and technology to deliver a reformed and strengthened higher education system for our country. as today this government looks to the future i am reminded that more than 60 years have passed since the robbins report on higher education was presented to this house with its famous principal that courses of higher education should be available for all those who are qualified by ability and attainment to pursue them and wish to do so. that principle drove the expansion of higher education over the decades that followed on successive governments of both parties. it is central to the thinking of this government today. that is why responsible governments must universities not as political battlegrounds but as a public good. 0n the side of the ho

>> this story of universities coddling upset students shows this is the product of leftism overtaken tion system. harvard and princeton, elite universities canceling classes for georgetown university giving out milk and cookies and crowns on legos and even at the university of oregon we saw therapy dogs, therapy goats and therapy duck soup or these art childish activities that coddle hypersensitive students certainly not preparing them for the real world. it seems a lot more like its preschool curriculum rather than college curriculum. support gerry seinfeld that comedian wench when those fancy high school in new york but he said this, quote what kind of lives have these people lead that made them think this is a right way to handle young people to encourage them to buckle? this is the lesson they are providing for ungodly sums of money. do you think he has a point? >> i think he is a great point. i can assure if donald trump won the election i'll think conservative students will be given the self-care activities on the day off from school. where were the safe spaces and self-care ini

kind of electronic from the center for flood risk and resilience for now, university of london. or out of botswana, which is saying it's 1st change of government. and over 60 years president, the website of the routing botswana democratic party has conceded defeat after being bound the beaten in parliamentary elections. this week celebrations began after a surprise landslide victory footboards one of mean opposition party. and this meant to my broken like human rights lawyer. it said to be the country's next president. did the 3 of his body the i'm pretty know for democratic change broke these ruling books, one of democratic bodies, 6 tickets long group one, father, my sister in a country or some 2600000 people, many have expressed frustration against the ruling elite. and that's when i'm glad that we have the change in government and we've been unhappy because of unemployment. now we look forward to seeing what the new government will do for us . i'm so happy, however, our elections went full. we wanted was change to a new government government. what's one of the incumbent presi

our guest is andrew busch civics professor at the university of tennessee, associate director of the instant tute of american civics at the university, and the author of this book, reagan's victory the present annual election of 1980 and the rise of the right. here's the tally from 1980. ronald reagan received 50.7% of the vote and 489 electoral votes. jimmy carter, the incumbent, 41% of the vote, 49 electoral votes. and john anderson and independ that who we'll talk about shortly. 6.6% of the vote, zero electoral votes. andrew busch how did ronald reagan achieve this historic landslide election? well, there were a few things that he had to do and he did them. the first one was that he had to frame the election as a referendum on jimmy carter. that is to say jimmy carter had not had terribly successful for years. there were some things that he had had he had done well, but the country was not satisfied. the economy was not doing well. there were foreign policy crises. so reagan had to frame the issue as do you want four more years of that? he succeeded in doing that. the second thing

. >> up next, discussion on compensation for college athletes with the former university of alabama head football coach and commissioner charge mcclellan -- charles mcclellan. ensuring fair pay for student athletes. this is part of the congressional black caucus foundations conference in washington, d.c. >> c-span's -- and everyone. i'm a congresswoman, terri sewell. first of all, good afternoon. y'all can say it better. this is going to be a fabulous panel. so i'm congresswoman terri sewell. i'm the chair of the congressional black caucus foundation. and let me welcome you to the 53rd annual legislative conference. we are so excited about today's panel. as many of you know, i represent alabama's seventh congressional district, which includes the historic cities i know includes the historic cities of birmingham. yay! who's in birmingham? montgomery, tuscaloosa is the road to. and my hometown of selma, alabama. and we thought it was fitting since alabama and this district is the home of the scc, the swac, as well as the university of alabama and alabama state and miles college. we know th

it has been my honor and privilege to represent the university of alabama for the last seven terms for 14 years. and i've always felt welcomed. and i am very proud of the fact that we this district is home to crimson tide. i also we are also home to the swac, the southwestern athletic conference, and we are so excited to have. yes, give them a round of applause for that. and we're so excited that they're located in birmingham as well as scc our to guest coach nick saban has had an impressive 28 year career in coaching football, mostly at the university of alabama. he's won seven national titles, nine sec championships, and he's developed 52 first round nfl draft picks. the most of any college football coach in history. beyond his coaching achievements, coach saban and his wife, my namesake, miss terry, are our philanthropic as well. they established the nick's kids foundation, which has donated over $13 million to more than 150 charities. dr. charles mckellen is the sixth commissioner of swac, the southwestern athletic conference. he joined it in 2018. the south atlantic, the southwest

by 1835, he is at the university of carolina. he had expected he would have had a position teaching at one of the more prestigious universities, harvard yale, columbia. that doesn't happen in part because he's an immigrant. he speaks with a german accent and in part because he's german and not an american. so they haven't yet recognized the value of foreign scholars. that will come later and at the university, at south carolina college, which is today university of south carolina. he struggles to deal with world that he's in. he does not instance believe in slavery, but also knows that if he condemns slavery, he will be fired. and if he supports slavery, all of his friends in new england, in new york will stop to him. so he's a real dilemma. and so what he does is pretty much says nothing about slavery for 20 years. he simply hides it as a professor at the college. he is expected to maintain that certain kind of lifestyle and as you would all realize you thought about it in the 19th century that kind of lifestyle requires lots of