, justice is defined as the leveling of all hierarchies in the quest for universal material well-being. the first premise, the valorization of desire leads to chaos and nihilism. the second premise leads to hotel or unitarianism -- two totalitarianism. this is committed to both these positions even though they are contradictory and oppositional. on the one hand, we find the untethered will and on the other, the individual will melt into the undifferentiated collective. this schizophrenia underlies most of the pathologies we find in higher education today. if we are to renew the purpose and promise of universities, we must navigate the cilla of relativism and the charybdis of ideology. we must create institutions where those seeking answers to the most important questions begin from a position of intellectual humility and are animated by the pursuit of truth. we must foster communities of conversation where ideas and opinions can be brought forth without fear so that all interlocutors can engage freely in the highest purpose of education which is to better understand

i think a lot about one of the kind of pre -- one of the questions you said earlier was what's kind of an emblematic university press book? i think about anna sing's mushroom at the end of the word which was a back -- i think it came out in 2016 in hard cover of it was just in the past year released in a trade edition because this is the kind of work that laid groundwork through word of mouth. for a book seller that's the best kinds of hand sell. we love the books that have big marketing budgets and get all the reviews but the book we wand to hand someone is one that are passionate about that may not have the marketing behind it. a book like this, five years later you have a book that's in everyone's conscience, oh, i have heard of this. i think about that when i am buy forth the store. what book might we be thinking about in five years, whatever the time line is. >> yeah. to just straight to that question for everyone, are bronco and deesha, do you have books that are emblematic of university press books? >> i don't want about emblematic but i have two favorites i pensioned to mention that people may not know

of the elephant the room. we don't like to talk about such things. but, you know, most university presses rely on this kind of financial or some sort of in-kind nest from their host university to be supportive and and want the press to succeed and do things, you know, we exist to do things that commercial presses can't do so it's probably going to cost money to do those things because if you could make money than a commercial press would have done it and i think you know the the environment on university campuses is super tough these days they're you know, all the people who have the checkbooks use this kind of rhetoric of every dollar has to be spent accountably and like, you know, how do you how do you know in how do you quantify impact in humanities publishing for somebody who is looking at you know the phrase in north carolina sometimes has been used like -- in seats for you know classes or jobs. so, you know the whole kind of increasing focus on vocationalization of campuses and really kind of a disparaging the humanities are these are real challenges and i you know, i'm sitt

one of the anecdotes we tell and our story adam smith are for the wealth of nations in 1776 compared to inefficiencies at oxford university in england to the scottish system. one of the things he pointed out is the professors were lazy, the administrators were operating in such a way they thought there was a continuous cash flow. they did not have them deliver anything to the students. children under the students cheated came to class late it's the same patterns received 250 years later are still taking place in the university system for. >> necessary for good job anymore? depends quite a bit on the field. certain college degrees math in the stem fields on the other end of that there are some degrees like in theater you start asking the questions of your spending over the course of your spending may show to college there may not be the type of career path because the job market is not there for those types of degrees. >> in your book cracks in the ivory tower we talk about general education classes quite a bit, why? >> right. jen ed are these classes everybody takes. there is roughly about a third of the college experienc

and dean of the faculty of law at the university of toronto. his book, released last month, examines the role higher institutions have in preserving the values of liberal democracy. we're delighted he's joining us today to moderate these conversations. president daniels, thank you very much and over to you. >> thank you so much, jackie, it's a real pleasure and a privilege to be here today. and really honored to be joined here today by the co-authors of the academic leaders task force on free expression. governor jim douglas and governor chris gregoire. chris gregoire, as you know, served two terms as governor of washington and chaired the national governors association. she is now ceo of challenge seattle, an alliance of ceos. governor jim douglas served four terms as governor of vermont and is now executive in residence at middlebury college, his alma mater. thank you, governors, for being here and chairing this task force and for the very important contribution you're making to our sector and to debate more generally in our country. with that

a student invited a speaker by the name of milo to come and speak, and the president of the university received petitions to overrule the students and not allow the speaker, and she also received petitions to reinforce that the speaker should be allowed a chance. unfortunately, it ended up in a very unfortunate incident in which an individual was shot. both the victim and the perpetrator were not students or campus members at all, but it did evolve out of the demonstration. the conclusion drawn by the community at large was in the academic realm, this is a growing problem with regards to freedom of speech, and, in fact, the question asked is, does it pose a threat to the safety and security of college campuses? i thought it was a terrible conclusion to draw, and i felt what was better to be drawn was if we are threatening freedom of speech, then our whole country is being threatened. so i took the bipartisan policy council and said, i am concerned because i watch the president at the university of washington standalone with virtually no support once the incident took place, and being p

the journal. i had to do all of that. i retired in 2015 from the university of california but i wanted to return because i came to the university of california riverside in 2007 because i had been teaching in new orleans. it was not recovering from hurricane katrina. i had various job offerings. i had just retired from the university of california. they offered me the position there. that was because the history department at dillard was consolidated into a humanities department. i arrived at the university of california riverside in 2007 and returned to new orleans in 2015. i met with colleagues at xavier university. i had visited with xavier's faculty before. when i mentioned the project i was working on, i set there is all this activism in the louisiana, that in each of these cities in the louisiana, high school students and children, desegregated public schools, they organized all of these protests. two colleagues at xavier university said i will get my students at xavier to document that we protested in cities in louisiana and new orleans, that rouge, sh

both in terms of colleagues that i worked with and the research that i did, but i also got to see kind of the inside the behind the scenes of what happens in the way that a university runs and what did you find? well my immediate take on it is that you know if we judge to university just as a normal business operation. there are things that happen in universities that would make something like enron look ethical by comparison. give us an example. yeah, i i said the first thing is the way that universities market themselves to students because if you go to any university in america, you know, they have glossy literature they present themselves as you're going to get a world-class education and open up all sorts of possibilities. so they're promising high and mighty things that student that comes through their system. is going to get but when you actually look at the results of what's coming out of the university systems, it's a range of degrees that some of them are not worth the money that you're you're paying for. so students are leaving with a massive amounts of debt, but very little on the way of job prospects. there's often promises that are made that are simpl

he was provost at the university of pennsylvania and dean of the faculty of law at the university of toronto. this book, [inaudible] exam is a vital role that higher education institutions have in the valleys of liberal democracy. i wouldn't [inaudible] but do a [inaudible] president daniels, thank you very, much and over to you. >> thank you so much, jackie. it's a real pleasure and privilege to be here today and i'm really honored to be joined here today by the coauthors of the academic leaders cast course on expression free expression, governor jim douglas and governor chris gregoire. chris gregoire, as you know, served two terms as governor of washington and chair of the national governors association. she is now ceo of chance seattle, and aligns off the ceos of the nation's largest private sector employees. jim douglas served four terms as governor from what he served to as the chair of the national governors association, and he's now executive residence -- executive in residence at middlebury college, his middlebury college, his alma mater. thank you governors for being here, bu

of— reimbursed. when i was at university one of the _ reimbursed. lucky— of it was face—to—face tuition. i was lucky enough to have supervisions with one or two students _ supervisions with one or two students or sometimes on my own with some _ students or sometimes on my own with some of— students or sometimes on my own with some of the _ students or sometimes on my own with some of the leading experts in the world _ some of the leading experts in the world in— some of the leading experts in the world in my subject and i think it's grossly— world in my subject and i think it's grossly unfair on 19 to 21—year—olds who have _ grossly unfair on 19 to 21—year—olds who have lived through this pandemic, who haven't had anything like that— pandemic, who haven't had anything like that sort of service from the university, — like that sort of service from the university, and yet have been paying the same _ university, and yet have been paying the same levels of fees, so there are calls — the same levels of fees, so there are calls as— the same levels of fees,

religious aspect of the students and the young people of mobilization and protests was very prominent and very important to their success. host: you hold a title today at the university of california riverside. you are the author of numerous books. you have spent your academic career documenting and teaching the story of the civil rights era in the united states. in the book, this book has been decades in the making for you. why has it taken you so long to tell a story? guest: it took me a long time to get this book out because i was interrupted by various things. the focus on children and teenagers came out of a reference book -- at temple university -- her knowledge of the civil rights movement from 1965. that came out in 2000. the research for the book was throughout the 1990's. in the 1990's i was reading new york times, jet magazine, stories on civil rights and collecting information on civil rights act visits. employment, public accommodations, housing, entertainment, the military. they all grew up with education. while i was working on that book, i began to notice children and teenagers participation in these civil rights protests. from the new york times, fro

right, let's bring in our guess in marchina, that's near the capital manila, the nila rao, professor of journalism at the university of the philippines. he's also convenor of the election watchdog contra dia. that means against fraud in paris, author and journalist criselda ya bas. and in manila, richard, hey daria and professor of political science at the polytechnic university of the philippines. he's the author of the book called the rise of to tear t a populace revolt against elite democracy a warm welcome to you all. and thanks so much for joining the program today. chris, out the, let me start with you. what does the state of this election say about the state of philippines? politics today? oh, what basically for us it's just either we move forward or we go back. moving forward means undoing what the president has done. and the ford edge of more democratic goes, although that's kind of big. but basically, bringing back, you know, the rule of law, human rights and equality. but moving back means going back. i mean, boating for market junior, the son of the lake and people somehow seem to have the solution that

of the xavier university of - that is patrice bell of the - xavier university of louisiana talking —o _ xavier university of louisiana talking to me _ xavier university of louisiana talking to me earlier. - let's get some of the day's other news. the pharmaceutical company johnson &johnson and three major us drug distributors have agreed to pay about $600 million to settle lawsuits by native american communities devastated by the opioid crisis. the companies have not admitted wrongdoing, but the settlement will speed up the process of distributing funds. tonga is imposing a covid lockdown after the pacific island nation, which had been virus free, recorded two cases. the prime minister said the measures would be reviewed every two days. the two men who tested positive had been working in the capital's port, where humanitarian aid has been pouring in after last month's volcanic eruption and tsunami. the norwegian mass murderer anders breivik has lost his bid for parole after a court decided he remains a risk to society. he was jailed for killing 77 people in oslo and utoya injuly 2011

john is the franklin professor of history at the university of georgia. had specializes in the history of war and society and the world wars. he was educated at the university of pennsylvania. john has taught over 50 years. next year he says he's retiring. let's give him a hand. 50 years. [ applause ] that's quite a bit of service there. both he tugt at the university of tennessee in knoxville and then at the university of georgia. at both universities he served as the chair of the departments and was recognized for his excellence in teefing. john has also taught at the united states military academy where he was awarded the u.s. department of the army outstanding civilian service medal. he has gained recognition for his ability to demonstrate how the past and present intertwine. john has published six books. i'm not going to go through the entire list here, "the great war in the air." he has co-authored a study on the fighters. that's the one we'll be hearing the most about today. thai is the harlem rattlers and the great war. in 2019 we were in chicago a

john is the franklin and says professor of history at the university of georgia. he specializes in the history of warren society and the world wars he was educated at swarzemore college and the university of pennsylvania. john has taught over 50 years. he's next year he is. he says he is next year. he tells me he's retiring but he has let's give my hand on that 50 years. that's quite a bit of service there. both, you know he first taught at the university of tennessee and knoxville and then at the university of georgia at both universities. he served as the chair of the departments and was recognized for his excellence in teaching john has to also taught at the united states military academy where he was awarded the us us department of the army outstanding civilian service medal. he has gained recognition for his ability to demonstrate how the past and present intertwined in extrically john has published six books. i'm not going to go through the entire list here. the the great war in the air a comprehensive history of world war one the great war and imperial histo

so, the focus of our suit has been on emilio rating the impacts of really massive enrollment increase. in 2005, the university said they were going to add students to the campus and build 2500 beds of housing. at the time we filed our lawsuit in 2019, the university added almost 11,000 students and had only built 1,600 beds, so there was a shortage of more than 9,500 beds at the time we filed the lawsuit. kristen: ok, so youo re -- you're concerned about new enrollment then. what do you fear will happen to the city of berkeley? where would the impact be that's negative for the residents should that happen? >> that's a great question. so, the university has an urban displacement project, which is actually studied all of the census tracts around the uc berkeley campus. and when we looked at those numbers, we found that between 2015 and 2018, 11% of low income households had been displaced by students around the campus. and what we're afraid of happening is what happened in santa barbara last fall, where thousands of students were living in their cars, camp surfing, university rented hundreds and hundreds of hot

of wisconsin madison, _ aggression. 0k, of the universityion. 0k, of the university of wisconsin madison, thank you very | wisconsin madison, thank you very much indeed. thank you.— much indeed. thank you. you're welcome. _ much indeed. thank you. you're welcome, thank _ much indeed. thank you. you're welcome, thank you. _ across the uk, 150,000 households remain they were struck by falling trees and flying debris in belgium, germany and poland. ——storm eunice has wreaked havoc across europe, causing power outages and killing at least 16 people. the victims were struck by falling trees and flying debris in britain, ireland, the netherlands, belgium, germany and poland. anna holligan reports. amsterdam's famous tree—lined streets were transformed into death traps. four people were killed by falling trunks, including someone riding a bicycle. coastal areas experienced the most intense winds, with gusts of up to 90 mph. this was scheveningen, on the edge of the hague. the highest code red weather warning has been lifted, for now. this is just o

particular track, you can follow so to kind of circle back to to the beginning of my answer one way to summarize the critique i make of the contemporary university is that the dominance of disciplinary specialization has in fact undermined the practice of liberal education. okay, that's that's very interesting. i think your book has been received in a way that indicates that that was part of your polemic, but another angle that has been picked up i think involves your potential response to the critique that the study of great books is not really as you say a way to fundamentally equip all sorts of people for lives of meaning and excellence, right but a tool of a tool of a particular culture that aims to place certain people on top generally white wealthy people and to keep others down right so i think a lot of the way that your book has been received has started an interesting argument and that domain i'd like to ask you to talk a little bit more about that potential political angle of your book. thank you. yes. well, you know there is a historical association between higher education and an elitism higher education and the maintenance of hierar

of the vending machine. we offer free laundry services to nonprofits located four blocks from the university. s we talk about food insecurity, you have to look at all these other basic needs kinds of issues that are some of the root causes of food insecurity. if you don't, you go back to masking those needs deeper. if you don't satisfy the basic needs, there is not much that person can do to progress academically, professionally and in person. >> thank you for the opportunity to respond. we recently relaunched our work with our four year universities. we carefully examined what made engagement most productive and effective and the number one thing we found was engagement of administrators. your question about administration engagement, i think it cannot be overstated that you have to engage university leaders in order to move this style. as we launched our work with the community colleges, we actually have a system for community college. we are shall he engage the administrator to begin with to have the community colleges involved. i think it is important that as we talk about federal legislat

of the afghanistan papers. and later in april. it's the 27th. annual los angeles times festival of books. it's held on the campus of the university of southern, california and looking forward to an in-person event, hopefully there. and on may 21st the san antonio book festival celebrates their 10th anniversary. with a return to in-person author events. now that's just a few of the book festivals coming up this spring look for book tvs coverage of these festivals in the months ahead. and finally, here's some books being published this week. in insurgency, new york times correspondent. jeremy peters looks at the last 30 years of the republican party and how it changed under president trump. phil robertson who was featured in the reality television program duck dynasty weighs in on the cancel culture in uncancled. and in smashing statues john jay college criminal justice professor, aaron thompson provides a history of america's public monuments and examines the current debates. over whether they should remain standing also being published this week author chuck klosterman looks back at the social political and technological happenin

what we think in the recent hours already and a 2nd or us and goal of declared by president put in the den education of the crate and translating from the language used in the universe of the russian government. it means that most probably the ukrainian government, the current korean government field to be, should be bringing down by their us and for us somehow because in the universe of their us and government ukrainians, ukrainian governments are pop, it's government ruled by the united states, arose from russian from to see and they are all like nicest and fascists and these kinds of rhetoric hitting things, a theory since 2014 might hon isn't on the streets of gifts. so what the see right now it's, it's russia, it's trying to achieve the goal since couple of hours. okay, that's listening to what vladimir putin said in that statement a while ago. but when you put bells, when you say who, when the trying to feel with them and even more so to create threats for our country, people should know that russia response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences that you have never experienced in your history that you thought that was very much a warning to

the era of her mention in european affairs. well, to discuss it, i'm now joined by a professor of russian and european politics at the university of canada. has a separate, great to see. i'm going to talk to you. thank you very much for being available. my pleasure. profess aqua in your recent article. you mentioned that the current ukrainian saga reminds you of the cuban missile crisis, which marks its 60th anniversary of this year. and in both cases, genuine concerns were mixed up with postering and advice escalation. and i see the relevance of this comparison when it comes to russia strategic interest. but when it comes to the west or the united states, in particular, it isn't just as i did this, then surely significant as it was back in 1962 with the placement possible placement of the soviet missiles in cuba. the cuban missile crisis is been repeated, but in a sort of slow motion behavior. and the larger context is important and i'll come back to the cuban issue. and the larger one is that i argue that we are back a cold war and a cold war 2. and just as the cuban missile crisis in october 1962 was as it were, the moment t

first, i'm proposing funding to stave off any tuition hikes across the university of maine system and keep university education affordable. second, thinking especially about all those young people whose aspirations have been most impacted by the pandemic . i am proposing making two years of community college free so to the high school classes of 2022 2023 if you enrolled full-time in a maine community college this fall or next, the state of maine will cover every last dollar of , your tuition. and you canattain . [applause] you can obtain a one year certificate or two years and graduate unburdened by debt and ready to enter the workforce and if you're someone who's already started a two-yearprogram we've got your back to . we will cover the last dollar of your second year. there are so many good paying jobs in healthcare, trade, ring, construction clean energy technology and so many other industries just waiting for you. as your governor, we want you to know the future is yours and we will help you embrace it because that is progress and thank you president for helping make this happe

of the world has responsibilities. but this was never counted by the western powers because of that vision of a liberal, international order, which is like a universal monro doctrine. it means that they can be no regional spheres of influence. even regional phase of security weren't allowed. because that would, by definition, infringe this universalism of the west. but now all of that model is being challenged. and as you say, russia does have your sponsibility. in addition, as a permanent member of united nations security council says not just regional, but oh, even global responsibilities. why isn't them so difficult for the west just 2nd, because i don't understand why they would have if you, let's say 30 years ago after all the transfers muscles, the end of the cold war in the collapse of the soviet union. but nowadays, the united states doesn't have the means or the desire to involve itself in every part of the will. they just withdrew from afghanistan because they don't want to waste their resources there. do they really want to be a sort of a global policeman? let's say in catholics on or into jesus and are even in georgia or your brain when

university of wisconsin where he served of the university of wisconsin colleges and university extension. the rabbi in colleyville, texas since 2006, he graduated from the university of michigan in 1998 hebrew union college institute of religion and cincinnati. receiving his medical -- hebrew letters in 2005, past president of the association of reformed rabbi and serves on the committee. a doctor of education and higher education from texas tech university and earned a bachelors in criminal justice for midwestern state university and masters in counseling from a and m university in 2006 and served four years in the u.s. army, 22 year retired police sgt. of the dallas police department currently serves as president and executive director at the national on officer foundation. a former police officer currently executive director that innovates in milwaukee and an interventionist to help individuals and families and help them exist in violent extremism and i think it is -- following the murder of this attack in wisconsin, the organization works to build positive correlation among

the cost of their tuition. they do not have the luxury of having enough to eat. enough time to study, get adequate rest. i started the allen university food pantry in 2019 when i was hired as the minister of student affairs. in my job description it clearly stated starting a food pantry was it top priority -- was a top priority. i was hired on a monday and had the food pantry up and running the friday of that same week. the passionate was clearly evident in the 110 plus students that showed up during the grand opening ceremony. the success is due to the generous help of one community nonprofit that help me set up a food pantry from the very start. i've also picked up sponsors that have helped disturbing weekly bags throughout the academic school year. we have two student organizers who serve as volunteers and they are also on the college food insecurity subcommittee. today the pantry as distributed 2,788 food bags. we also provide a wide array of [indiscernible] of some of the recommendations we feel will address food security are as follows. increase the amount of pell grant money to offset because of rising tuition, establish an ac

of americaat its best . so i'm including in my budget $6 million to establish the institute of american civics at the university of tennessee. [applause] this will be the flagship of the nation, a beacon celebrating intellectual diversity are universities, teaching how responsible civic minded people strengthen our communities, strengthens our country. our university is not only facing internal threats but real external threats as well . it empowers them, to steal implements of research. the federal government estimates more than $225 billion worth of intellectual property is stolen every year from china and much of it at institutions of higher learning. last year we shut down confucius institute and told our tennessee universities to cut ties with organizations working for the chinese party. the state of tennessee has to remain vigilant with regard to countries and foreign entities who do not have our best interest in mind our organization is strengthening our vetting approach to make sure we do not spend state dollars orincentivize any company doing the work of foreign adversaries . [applause] we're doing thi