harvard, johns hopkins, stanford, usc, university of southern california, a whole variety of universities have now decided that they will adopt principles of institution neutrality. when you look a little closer, and i have argued that in one of my opinion pieces in the wall street journal, from my point of view this does not go far enough. here is what i mean. some universities have said this applies only to speech. statements, if you will. that is great. that is a wonderful development. but it is very important to understand that institution neutrality, and this is how university chicago and vanderbilt has always interpreted it, does not just apply to speech, it also applies to actions. crucially, it applies to how you deal. institution neutrality has meant at university of chicago and betterment that the endowment will not be used for political purposes. so calls for divestment are inconsistent with the principle of institutional neutrality, no matter what the cause is. that is not where most universities are at this point. i think it is to me logically inconsistent to say i refrain fr

he's the ninth chancellor of vanderbilt university. coming there in 2020, right in the -- right at the epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic. and not surprisingly for the kind of leadership that he exercised, the university was in person open in the fall. he served as the provost at the university of chicago from 2016 to 2020 and he's brought the values of the university of chicago, chicago principles, freedom of expression and the calvin report on institutional neutrality to his leadership at vanderbilt. he's written extensively in the wall street journal, "the new york times," at forbes, along with six major books in higher management and management leadership. with that, let's welcome chancellor. thank you so much for being with us. [ applause ] >>> thank you first of all for the kind introduction. thank you very much for having me with you today. this is probably the most difficult challenging period in higher education since the '60s. we have not seen that much conflict on campuses, michael pointed out the erosion of public trust in h

join me in congratulating the award winner of the college chapter of the year at the university of georgialause] ♪ one more time for the future of america, high school and college chapters. how great is that? [applause] you can one day be on this stage. go get involved, take back your campus. get involved for the future of america and support your local turning point usa chapter. thank you very much. we will be back soon. keep supporting your local turning point usa chapter near >> this week we are showing encore presentations from our weekly program, q&a. tonight, the u.s. government case against julius and ethel rosenberg who were executed in 1950 three after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the soviet union. the two brothers share what life was like for an after their parents execution. the anti-communistic climate in the u.s. during the 1950's, and their efforts to posthumously hear their mother, ethel's, record. >> they were privy to all the stuff we have learned since, including the noninvolvement of my mother. that is the reason why, surprisingly, when the judge

university of chicago. the chicago principles of freedom of expression in the calvin report on the institutional neutrality to his leadership at vanderbilt. he has written extensively in the wall street journal and the new york times and forbes along with six major books in higher education management and on management and leadership. with that, let's welcome chancellor dear meyer. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, first of all for the kind introduction and thank you very much for having me with you here today. this is probably the most difficult and challenging. in higher education since the 60s. we have not seen that much conflict on campuses. michael pointed out the erosion of public trust in higher education across the board. these are challenging times for university leaders. so, i look forward to the discussion and to the discussion right here and to the questions because this is a moment whereas university leaders we have to step up. to be clear about what the purpose of universities

of the joys. it is like being at a university. are faculty members and subject experts in whatever subject you have. the library of congress collects in 470 languages. half of the collection is in languages other than english. the middle eastern division, you will have experts who are from the region. david: today you have 3500 employees. where you get your money from? i assume library fines are not a big part of your business. dr. hayden: this is where the accessibility for everyone comes into play. 85% to 90% of the library 's operating budget is from an appropriation from congress. that is taxpayer money. that's another reason why we are devoted to making sure people know this is their library too. david: does a joint committee on -- there is a joint committee on the library for congress? dr. hayden: the library budget goes through the appropriations committees on both sides, senate and house, and then there are policy committees that help with the direction of the library itself. though budgeting gives you direction as well. d

hayden: on the campus of florida a&m university.istorically black college in tallahassee, florida. david: were your parents teachers there? dr. hayden: yes, my father had been recruited to start the strings department at the school. he was a classically trained violinist. my mom was a pianist. she was his accompany asked many times -- accompanist many times. they went to florida, they'd never been to a historical black college. they were from illinois. it was a totally different experience for them. david: let me ask how you got out of florida because you were born and raised there, but where did you go to college? dr. hayden: there was a little byway. my dad didn't buy the jazz bug -- got bitten by the jazz bug. he went to new york. i ended up going to high school and then college in chicago. david: you went to college where? dr. hayden: roosevelt university and university of chicago. david: you got a phd in library sciences at the university of chicago. are there many library schools anymore? the one at the university of chicago n

we are talking about higher education in america with the president of princeton university, christophergrubber, chair of the association of american universities. welcome to the program. >> thank you, a pleasure to be here. >> you just started your term as the chair. tell us about that organization, the mission, and who the members are. >> it's a great honor to be chairing the board for the association of american universities. this is a group of about 70 of america's leading research universities. so it includes public flagship universities, it includes private universities. what we share in common is a commitment to educating students at the highest level, and a commitment to research of the highest quality that enables our country to enjoy prosperity and promotes the security of the country, as well. >> so what are your goals and priorities going to be for this coming year? >> it's important to continue to -- for the government to continue supporting the research we have had in the united states. we have benefited tremendously in this country from having a partnership between the gov

a lot of the stuff is in our universities. some of it wittingly, a lot of it unwittingly, and if we are to prevail in this new cold war that the prc has initiated, we must ensure that our intellectual institutions, our cathedrals, our armories, are aligned with our national interest, and in the past year, i really can think of no two committees led by these two exceptional leaders that we have here tonight that have done more critical work exposing how our adversaries have exploited our higher education system so it is a pleasure to introduce our guests tonight. virginia foxx representing north carolina's fifth district and she serves as the chairwoman as the house committee on education in the workforce. she has been at the forefront of efforts to hold university leaders accountable for the troubling rise of anti-semitism on so many campuses and under her leadership, the committee has summoned numerous presidents to testify before congress and let's just say that despite the fact that her committee also deals with workforce is

university of michigan board of regents member sarah hubbard joins us now.ou're all elected there in michigan to be board of regents to be revisiting dei. that that's a big deal. of michigan as has one of the biggest programs, has prided itself in the past as being at the forefront of dei. if. >> yeah. we have a very large bureaucracy that's impacting our students and our faculty across the board. we really are taking a critical look at the programs and the spending at the university of michigan right now and want to better understand what metrics are, what the results we are getting out of that because we're really not seeing the needle moving related to diversity of thought in particular on campus, let alone diversity in other ways. so i've been asking a lot of questions since i was first elected to this board and and really believe that we need to do something differently here or, you know, really be focusing on our programs that are good for everybody that have need but could get admitted to the university. will: you bring up diversity of thought and tha

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

she came to the united states to pursue a master's degree in creative writing at the university of idaho in 2006. in addition to brown, women have everything she has published several other books, including women who misbehave and fire girl. she is an associate professor of creative at the university of north carolina in wilmington and has taught throughout the world, including in india, italy, colombia and mexico. her research spans creative literary nonfiction, south asian history, literature, indian cinema world religions, folklore and mythology. so thank you both for being here. your books are sobering. they are funny and thoughtful. i would love if you would just kick us off by sharing a passage. you want to go first? can you all me? thank you, sarah. and thank you, barbara. it's such an honor for me to be sharing this platform with you. and thank you all for being here. so i'm going read about the two pages of the first essay from the collection, and this essay is titled becoming this brown woman or three glorious accidents. and this essays about my parents wedding, about family st

of rule on college campuses. that is will be done at princeton and with other universities have done. people have to make sure they speak up in a way that allows everybody to go about business on the campus and doesn't disrupt the activities of the campus. we have to be elevating the conversation. a lot of it is covered a lot of the news media. what gets the pictures are the students with the signs, but we've got to take those conversations and elevate them. the second i would say is we do want students to be engaged around the issue. there are people who go about their business and don't pay attention to the issues happening in the world. we want our students to grow up to be engaged leaders. it is a right to disrupt, not a light -- a right to -- host: not just the protests, but the freedom of speech aspects. guest: i think we can a good job at princeton. when we asked him about the student experience, and we do this every year, last year students continued to report a high sense of satisfaction with student experience, in fact a little higher than the previous year. you mentioned tha

we have one at stanford, one at the university of utah, the university of oregon, the university of washington. we do a lot of this especially with college age students. i have been blessed for most of my priesthood to work with younger people. >> that is interesting. my wife is a college teacher dealing with 18-year-old-19-year-old minds. she regaled me with stories. how are the kids doing? >> at saint dominic's one of our wonderful ministries is we have a young adult, a very strong young adult presence. >> i have heard this. >> our mailing list is hundreds of thousands every week. we gather once a week. the consistency of young adults who are catholics to know you are not alone. most folks were catholics feel they are cut off not just from others, but others who really believe. the ministry is really gathering together and allowing people who are young to give permission to each other. i can live my faith openly at almond time where politically and religiously there are so many ways to divide us. they pray together. they gather to have fun together. they play together if you will. but also t

and so he attended the university of virginia law school. but as i was mentioning earlier, he couldn't put up with the burden of studying, as he put it, law law, law of poring over the mass of its technicolor these, he said disgusts me. there was no time in campus life for anything except law. and that is some of us know what law school is. so but afterward he then attempted to open law practice in atlanta without a degree that was a notice here. here is uva law school, by the way. oh, and that the attempt at practicing law. oh it didn't matter that that he didn't have to agree because it was not that you could still take the bar exam be admitted locally. but it was a very un venture for him because we did it for about a year. and during that period of time he did not come up with a single client who paid him except his mother. so not surprisingly he gave that up within year or two. but one very notable and positive thing did happen, as i think a lot of people in this room know. during his brief time in georgia, he met his future wife, ellen

and the university of all right. thank you very much. that's a syria. well positioned, active as the site insurgents of pushing ahead with that offensive against government forces, capturing more towns and closing in on the city of how my state troops say they've re taken some territory. last and last week, surprise attack when the alliance of rebel groups to the country, 2nd, states a laptop you and says nearly 50000 people have been displaced by the latest fighting in a sign of disdain. for the regime of sculpture of president bush, char ellison's late brother is toppled by protesters and elect though a serious 2nd largest city. and several surrounding areas are now under rebel control. after a surprise offensive land by the islamist rebel group, higher terrier alshaun or h t s, as well as opposition fighters back by turkey. this footage film by the militants shows them entering was believed to be president, assad's palace and a level. and insurgents were also seen at the cities international airport, which they claimed to have seized with almost no op

a few days ago announced they had completed a 3d map of the universe. more than 30 million galaxies with a precision of. get ready for this 1%, which i think gives you some idea as to how difficult it is to map the universe. i've asked cosmologist alexei leto from the university of california at santa cruz, who works on the mapping project and soon will be promoted to lead organizer to help me understand what all this means. and she's promised to be patient with me. good morning, doctor leto. let's start with the super easy one. and that's what is the difference between a cosmologist and an astronomer. that's a great question, scott. astronomy typically studies the night sky with telescopes. astronomy then morphed into astrophysics, which brings in physics to understand the cosmos. and then from astrophysics was born cosmology, which is a subfield in astrophysics which focuses especially on the understanding, the origin and the evolution of the universe. and when we talk about the universe just to remindnd us of o elementary level astronomy, you know, we

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

the encampment, it was clear that the university had found a way to sort of work around us. we were no longer disrupting university life simply by existing on the lawns of university. and so what i think we need to, as a global student movement, is find to new and creative ways to continue to disrupt and apply pressure on our universities. it's not an exaggeration at all to say that the university of oxford and its pure institutions are profiting off the death and destruction of its own students and their families lives. as oxford continues to invest and is really a part time and in the weapons manufacturing industry, students from oxford are living in lebanon, and their families are in gaza. their families are indiana, and so we kept stock. the students have a duty on historic duty international duty as we all do, to disrupt what we have access to. and as a student, what i have access to is the university system. and so i see it is my responsibility to disrupt that side as quote. there is no education as normal, no business, as normal as the genocide continues. and i me

so you just started your term as chair of the association of american universities. tell us about that organization, the mission, and who the members are. >> is a great honor to be chairing the board. this is a group of about 70 of america's leading research universities. public flagship universities and private universities. what we share in common is a commitment to educating students at the highest level and the commitment to research of the highest quality that enables our country to enjoy prosperity and promotes the security of the country as well. host: so what are your goals and priorities going to be for the coming year? guest: it's important for the government to continue supporting the kind of research we've had in the united states. what we've done has helped tremendously in this country by having a partnership between the government and its universities. that has proved practical for applied research and basic research and has laid the foundation for later discoveries. so one of the things that i want to do is work very closely and carefully with president

university of florida press. he is professor of history at state university. his second book by andre e johnson and amanda nel edgar the summer of 2020. george floyd and the resurgence of the black lives matter movement published by the university press of mississippi. johnson is a professor of rhetoric and media studies and university reach research fellow at the university of memphis and amanda nel edgar is, an independent scholar whose work focuses on race and racism as the intersect with other identities, particularly gender and class our third book is, by francois hamblin and charles w jr from rights to lives, the of the black freedom struggle, published by vanderbilt university press. he is the chair of africana and associate professor of history at rhodes college in. each author will present a five minute press feed of the book. i will ask of each author to get the conversation. they will ask questions of one another. and finally, the floor will be open for you to ask questions. and if you would go to the microphone to ask questions. so those watching on

you look at the soft power of baseball, everett university you laugh at it. that made japan a different country in the eyes of the american people. when he tried to do politics and move things to have a partner extremely popular in your own country a huge benefit poised just in the region but i want to close on prime minister i think set it right is not a regional alliance. we have a global partner that's ready to step up beyond the region that is important to know better friend to have. thank you. [applause] >> it's great to be back. thank you again. we have an incredible group here. so pick up questions we have about 10 minutes or so. let me start with the first one. one of the themes of our event than on set against the structural factors. regardless of what happens. as well as. [inaudible] what do you think are the most important that you see leaders. [inaudible] that we have talked about. >> one, is not in this audience outside of here it's lost when you have trust among the leaders how far you can go. that is true in the trilateral. [inaudible] trunks on