of what they see as a competitive environment elsewhere within the private sector. manchester so you students see we've got many different universities here manchester metropolitan university university of so forth north west through college of music manchester articulate a million songs over total student population is about one hundred thirty thousand students which is pretty much one third of the city our campus here it is almost as big as manchester city center. the division of communications and marketing communicates everything that's good about the university both internally and text and it's developing and it's also professionalizing the higher education sector is probably like behind the commercial sector for some time but it's catching up very fast our university has its very own starbucks if you're into starbucks if you're into like taking selfies with your starbucks cup and everything this is pretty much the place to go if you go to subway you're going to get a free cookie if you go to mcdonald's you're going to get a free mic for ian so. saw the city is pretty much made for students so make great use of a student fees have increased from three thousand pounds

, all the land grant schools, including university of texas, university of california, and so many others. we believe deeply that public universities have the responsibility to uphold free speech. we have a constitutional public university. we have a constitutional obligation to do so, even though the rhetoric is divisive and hateful. as doctor gillman has pointed out, there is some exceptions, but that is certainly the general rule. of course as i point out, university leaders have that responsibility from time to time as events may require, to be very condemning of such devices and hateful speech. and when i was a university president, i took that responsibility seriously. we have been, senator gillman and his colleagues and i, have been talking about this in our meetings the last couple of years. my perception, hearing from so many of these leaders, is there is a broad and deep commitment to students. we understand how complicated it is. his questions brought out some of the complications. but we certainly must do it. i think every generation of leader

the speakers include a former student leader at the university of texas austin and the chancellor of the university of austin. this event was co-hosted by the association for land grant universities and the fund for american studies. >> good morning. thank you for joining us this morning. i'm roger reed, president of the fund for american studies. you can learn more about our organization at teaching freedom.org. it's a pleasure for us to be co-sponsoring with the association of public and land grant universities. this important discussion of the state of the first amendment at public universities. we have brought together a panel of people with the range of perspectives on the topic that is squarely at the intersection of the u.s. constitution and the first amendment on the one hand and the very purpose of the university engaged as it is in the search for truth and acting as one of the main transmitters of highest values to the next generation. for the past several years, we at the fund for american studies have put a strong emphasis on the freedom of speech in our programs for college students. w

university. so we're making greater use of hybrid classes where part of it's online, part of it's in the seminar room or the classroom or the laboratory. i don't think for universities such as the university of california that we will ever have a fully online degree. that's not who we are as a research university. but i do believe there will be a greater and greater role for online education. >> host: mitch daniels, former governor of indiana, is running purdue. janet napolitano, former governor of arizona is running uing-cal. what's the benefit of being a governor in that position? >> guest: you know, first of all, when i was a governor, i had higher education in the budget, and so i was used to dealing with it from that level. but, you know, large public universities are complex organizations. they have some similarities to running a state. you've got to deal with the legislature, the media, various constituencies. it's a very public role. it is political with a small p because you've got to, you know, engender support for the institution and be out there cheering for it. so it's, it is a job with some similarities. >> host: janet napolitano, some of the speakers that -- at uc-berkeley,

university which is important the largest community of chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body and the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester for the visit. of china. or the president visited me universities really in. joining his visit the president met university to nobel prize winners message board. not a sale of. the london serial grammy the thinnest lightest strongest material. right with. the state music. stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven. million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year over seven hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies in rolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office universe does in the u.s. u.k. and australia clinch first place. shabani and surety. ok. for all the money she added on it all for our twenty fifth this year i'm just out of a pro

universe was so small that billions of them could fit inside an atom which. yes one hundred trillion trillion years. everything in the universe was squeezed together into this little point. that was consummate conflation within a fraction of a second the universe got trillions and trillions of times bigger matter spread throughout space than the universe stopped expanding so fast and began to cool. this cosmic soup the first particles of light and matter came into existence how old's the universe now just a few billion some a second. after one whole second the universe's diameter was as big as the distance between the earth and the moon. and all the matter in today's milky way would have fit into this coffee cup there weren't even any atoms yet it took a few minutes before it was cool enough for them to form. a i can't see a thing. there was a thick fog across the entire universe photons bounced off atomic nuclei and electrons and were trapped they were stuck there for three hundred eighty thousand years. three hundred eighty thousand years of fog. yes but then the universe expanded and cooled off long enough for matter to bind together into entire atoms then the photons have enough room to fly straight ahead from everywhere to anywhere. this

it's called the age of eisenhower, and it's by professor william hitchcock of the university university of v. when i was a little boy i had the honor of meeting dwight eisenhower, and he is always inspired me and i think he is now rated one of the best presidents in american history pick and i'm also going to read a chris matthews biography, bobby kennedy. i think that chris matthews has done an excellent job in this regard and, of course, we commemorate this year the 50th anniversary of the tragic assassination of senator kennedy. so these are three books at the top of my list to read this summer. >> booktv wants to know what you are reading. send us your summer reading list via twitter or instagram or post it to our facebook page. ..

so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community of chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body and the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester for the visit. of china. or the president visited we knew it was early in. joining his visit the president met university to nobel prize winners message. not a sale on. the london cereal grant me the thinnest lightest material. right with. the. state. stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students gr

and that inhibits this kind of robust, ugly, messy, big debate that colleges and universities exist to provide. and, you know, we can talk about the university of michigan. there are plenty of examples why i think this has not only been prevalent, these attitudes are prevalent, but they've been institutionalized. they've been made part of the universities themselves. i think that's a dangerous trend and i hope it's reversed. >> alejandrina, how do you feel about the hate speech on campus? aside from the definition about hate speech, how do you feel about it? what would you call hate speech and how do you think it can be dealt with in these campus discussions? >> yes, that is a great question. so through my perspective and what i believe a hate speech is, you know, not just that you feel uncomfortable, it's the threatening -- you feel threatened over existence. privilege is a big piece of that, in my opinion. i think that a lot of students across campus think about hate speech and they say, oh, that's offensive or, oh, that's threatening, but it's beyond that because most of the time you already feel that you don't have adequate resources or

and you are real advocate of going to university? i think universityearn how to do things, but why they are doing it like that, and giving them theoretical choices, a theoretical underpinning to the choices that they make. i think university is a safe place for them to make mistakes. they have got people within the university that they can come to to talk things through, that are not necessarily related to their practice. and i think it offers them the space to critically reflect and learn in that sort of way. do you think too many people go to university? i remember the headlines of golf course management being a degree, and people saying that is utterly ridiculous. have we swung too far where we have encouraged to many people to go to university and it is not the right thing for them? i think options are really important. different people learn in different ways. but i do think university is important. it is difficult for students to get into a degree course and that hasn't really changed. they have got to reach a minimum standard and prove to us tha

postal service and she has her degrees from the university of south dakota and the university of minnesota. thank you very much. we are looking forward to your remarks. >> i was just thinking this morning when i was preparing my speech for today, i was a young woman when i started them postal and jim campbell who was one of the first people i met, many years later here i am with my 36.5 speaking to you today. certain things have deafly change since i started out but i wanted to thank the lexington institute for allowing me too address all of you today. it was almost 15 years ago in july of 2003 when president george bush commission on the u.s. postal service issued a report congress in the postal service making 35 legislative and administrative recommendations designed to ensure the efficient operation of the u.s. postal service while minimizing the financial exposure of the american taxpayers. the forward of that report made note of the postal service is lead fiscal outlet and unfunded obligations in the downward trend in first class mail volume. at that time i was working at the deputy s

of the monument that represents confederate monuments outside the courthouse. how important is that placement? >> i think that is everything. the reason it goes up in particular places, why choose the new university -- the university of north carolina to put your monument up as opposed to the battlefield. they are putting up the monument. they need to be part of the subject -- of the discussion. thank you all so much. >> i think we have a slide that we are slipping into the program here. announcement that we are going to be able to make this morning. we are protecting the battlefields national historic district. that isat in many ways direct battlefield presentation. through simple acquisition or the purchase of easement. i am absolutely thrilled. we are doing this on the fly. i am thrilled to tell you this morning that we are announcing for the first time all the land you see there in yellow, 373 acres, had just been preserved for all time. that's 373 acres that will perfect -- that will forever .rotect the battlefield we have been back and forth with many different players. there contribute $400,000 to the deal. not only because the virginia outdoors foundation, but it's because of the help of many of you, our m

of the monument that represents confederate monuments outside the courthouse. how important is that placement? >> i think that is everything. the reason it goes up in particular places, why choose the new university -- the university of north carolina to put your monument up as opposed to the battlefield. they are putting up the monument. they need to be part of the subject -- of the discussion. thank you all so much. watching coverage of a conference on civil war icons byd earlier today, hosted the shenandoah valley battlefields foundation. all is american history tv, weekend, every weekend on c-span3. we will get started with answering a few questions we have been hearing lunchtime.lunchtime we have gotten a lot of comments about getting involved with the foundation. is help using to do preserve the memory of the american civil war and on of those people who lived through it in the valley by becoming a member. and theye of our staff can give information on how to do that. that should answer

universities in this country. after the 2016 election for example, they held a cryan at cornell. -- cry in at cornell. i hope they had plenty of tissue. they had therapy dogs at the university of kansas. they had plato and coloring books at the universityf michigan. give me a break. students at tufts were encouraged to draw out their feelings. i can tell this group isn't going to have to have plato when you get attacked in college, you're going to stand up and defend yourselves in the values you believe in.[applause] i like this bunch. i've got to tell you. you're not going to be backing down. go get them. >> lock her up. lock her up. lock her up. >> i heard that a long time over the last campaign. rather than molding a generation of mature well- informed adults, some schools are doing everything they can to create a generation of sanctimonious sensitive, snowflakes. we are not going to have it. [applause] that is a disservice to students and to the nation. speech code protecting students from difficult or challenging ideas is a key aspect of the problem. last year the foundation for individual rights in education surveyed 450 colleges and universities across this country and found that 40% maintained speech codes that substantially in

entered, and i can tell you that the look on the faces of those at the university of arkansas when i was announced the university of miss university of arkansas was sort of like this. but it ended up funding my way through law school. and as a child from a small town in northwest arkansas, i was able to go on and do what i open have been very important things. in new york with cbs news, here in washington, d.c. in trucking and telecommunications and energy and intelligent transportation. and making a difference in public policy ain all of those fields. so we want miss america to be seen for what it really is, but yet hasn't really ever been able to talk about very well. and that is, you can be miss minister, miss mom, miss jet pilot, miss member of the military, miss ceo, miss whatever you want to be. and you can use those scholarships and that experience of being able to talk with people from all over the country and all over the world about why you think that you can benefit from the miss america program, be it because i interview better. our candidates when they go to jobs overwhelmingly say to us that they g

and the rise of this, cases have become significant in the us, where white stu d e nts significant in the us, where white students have sued the university having not got into the universityw i am having not got into the university, nowiama having not got into the university, now i am a victim of reverse discrimination. here are some stu d e nts discrimination. here are some students who got into university of texas, there was a case, the stu d e nts texas, there was a case, the students that i got a better gpa than these students, but we know the gpa is not... sorry, the grade point average. the high—tech score. what we know is it is not the only success we know is it is not the only success factor in a student. 80% variance in college success attributable to different factors other than test scores. this was brought in by obama, it is an obama policy about promoting diversity. there are universities that don't consider race as a factor. this is a huge discussion in the uk as well with cambridge and oxford seen as the two most famous universities internationally. they are sought after by international students worldwide wanting to get in. and yet there is a lack of diver

we will hear from randy barnett of georgetown university and richard primus of the university of michigan who are introduced by supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg. the event, in the supreme court chamber, was cohosted by the supreme court historical society and the john simon guggenheim memorial foundation. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. jus. ginsberg: let me begin by expressing the society's gratitude to justice ginsburg. you have always been a generous -- very generous in giving of your time in your efforts to the society, when we have called upon you. and thank you for taking time from your really enormous schedule at this particular time of year. this evening comes about because of my deep and abiding connection to our two hosting organizations, the supreme court historical society and the john simon guggenheim foundation.

so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body and the crowds lining the streets around the. visit. or the president visited we knew it was really in. joining his visit present. matters. not to say. me finished like just material. right with. a stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting fro

of our universities. and i believe wholeheartedly that our universities in this country are the finest educational institutions anywhere in the world. that's why we have people from all over the world coming to our universities. so i'm going to start by telling some of their stories. things that happened to them, things that they have made public, they have been bold to talk about the bad things that happened to them while they were at school. mr. speaker, it takes a lot for a crime victim, especially a sexual assault victim, to come forward and publicly talk about these things. for the last i guess 30 years, before i came to congress, i was a prosecutor in houston, texas. and then i spent 22 years on the criminal bench hearing only criminal cases. and i have met, unfortunately, a lot of sexual assault victims. have come their way, either prosecuting their cases or as a judge. it's tough, really it's tough to make those statements public and come forward. but i want to read a few of these statements and these stories that happened to some of that they call the 12th woman. aby's family was based -- abby's famil

of china's most famous university. also in beijing me too in action feminists have brought attention to rene's case her ex-boyfriend tried to rape her in the underground garridge of another university she went to the police but they were unwilling to launch an investigation. the university even put pressure on renee's parents so she wouldn't go public. turned. out my father said to me come home and listen to your university otherwise they'll expel you. i asked him why should they expel me i've done nothing wrong he had no answer to that he only repeated that i should listen to the university. renee's consultation with her attorney is sobering there is no national legal framework for dealing with cases of sexual harassment in schools all the workplace. lou shout chen is one of the few attorneys who take on these types of cases he explains to renee that there is no legal definition of sexual harassment. yet but he will help her file a lawsuit against the police who fail to help her at the time. of the me too movement doesn't have it easy in china. but despite the challenges gen she the doctoral student from handjob is determined to keep campaigning and recruiting others to the cools

universities should be held to the same legal standards as public universities. the private universities and public universities should be no difference and in so far as the regulation of freedom of expression. a lot of people think that. so for instance, my home university, my home university is harvard university, derek boch, wonderful educator. derek boch, a quarter century ago was very insistent that harvard university be under the same rules as a public university. i disagreed with his 25 years ago and i disagree with him today. i don't think that public universities should necessarily be under the same federal constitution requirements as public universities. why do i say that? i say that because of my commitment to pluralism. the system that we have in the united states, we have public institutions, we have private institutions. i think public institutions should definitely be -- i'm all for a thorough going kplicommit to first amendment values and want them to be wide open. on the other hand, this is a huge country. 300 million people occupying a huge land mass. people have all sorts of different beliefs. i think for instance let's imagine a small -- that peopl

university of alaska, anchorage. we feel the most important issue based in alaska has to do with education and workforce development. we see a lot of students coming into our university here who are under prepared for college. and then we are also not doing a great job of providing the environment and community on campus to support them through their undergraduate degree program. we are engaging students as young as six grade all the way through middle school, high school, and into the university to provide a string of longitude and opportunities that help support them academically, socially, i providing the inspiration and guidance and opportunities for them to provide -- for them to succeed. see that the issues i is important is nationwide. as well as in alaska. that is giving children garbage backs when they are removed from their homes by ocs. rotary cares for kids tries to eliminate that issue in the state of alaska by giving backpacks and duffel bags to children when they are removed from their home, transitioned from one home to another, or transitioning out of foster care. another issue important to me coming toseems to be fruition is fisheries management. fi

universe of me now today. thanks to repeat the recommendation systems those universes of us of me and you are the largest universes we ever had and they're also overlapping to a great extent. i think the effect of the filter bubble has yet to be quantified and i'm willing to render a hypothesis that when we get decent full assessment of the a fact of filter bubbles it will be different among different groups and different people how have social media platforms affected political discourse social media platforms have divided us have made a shallower you know the very addictive nature of it interferes with our ability to dive deep into one tax interferes with our ability to speak face to face in any depth. and perhaps to come to some sort of mutual awareness of the brain as you know if it does structure our habits and thoughts in ways that are not healthy for living life in a complex world and living in a democracy i think that the spread of junk news in this information and social media platforms as undermined truth in a sense if you're reading and learning about the world through facebook what you're getting is a

universe of me now today. thanks to repeat the recommendation systems those universes of us of me and you are the largest universes we ever had and they're also overlapping to a great extent. i think the effect of the filter bubble has yet to be quantified and i'm willing to render a hypothesis that when we get decent full assessment of the a fact of filter bubbles it will be different among different groups and different people how have social media platforms affected political discourse social media platforms have divided us have made a shallower you know the very addictive nature of it interferes with our ability to dive deep into one tax interferes with our ability to speak face to face in any depth. and perhaps to come to some sort of mutual awareness of the brain as you know it it does structure our habits of thoughts in ways that are not healthy for living life in a complex world and living in a democracy i think that the spread of junk news in this information and social media platforms as undermined truth in a sense if you're reading and learning about the world through facebook what you're getting is a m

so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community of chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body. the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester for the visit. of china. or the president visited me university since the war lean. mean. during his visit the president met university two nobel prize winners message board i'm not a sailor on demonstrating the wonder material grant me the thinnest lightest strongest material. right with its. meanings you can find vishal snake we're using a stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is exper

universe of me now today. thanks to repeat the recommendation systems those universes of us of me and you are the largest universes we ever had and they're also overlapping to a great extent. i think the effect of the filter bubble has yet to be quantified and i'm willing to render a hypothesis that when we get decent full assessment of the a fact of filter bubbles it will be different among different groups and different people how have social media platforms affected political discourse social media platforms have divided us have made a shallow or you know the very addictive nature of it interferes with our ability to dive deep into one tax interferes with our ability to speak face to face in any depth. and perhaps to come to some sort of mutual awareness of the brain as you know if it does structure our habits of thoughts in ways that are not healthy for living life in a complex world and living in a democracy i think that the spread of junk news in this information and social media platforms as undermined truth in a sense if you're reading and learning about the world through facebook what you're getting is a

i would have preferred if he had taught some courses at brigham university and the university of utah, but i guess that was too far west, but you can't knock harvard, yale, and georgetown. madam president, i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to finish my remarks. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. hatch: it bears to mention that liberal and conservative justices alike have hired his former clerks which address -- chosen the respect he has across the ideological spectrum. truly, madam president, there is no one more qualified and more prepared to serve on the supreme court than brett kavanaugh, and the funny thing is most people know that, including my friends on the other side. that's one reason they are afraid to have him on the court. i speak from experience on this. i'm the former chairman of the judiciary committee. i participated in the confirmation of more federal judges than any senator in our nation's history. more than half of all federal judges ever confirmed. i've participated in the last 14 supreme court confirmation battles, including the confirmations

university to discloe details of its investigation into gao's suicide. she was promptly put under house arrest and told she was risking her university degree. manyny other studentnts expred solilidarity. the notice was quickly removed. a stain on the image of china's most famous university. also in beijing, #metoo in action. feminists have brought attention to renee's case. her ex-boyfriend tried to rape her in the underground garage of another university. she went to the police, but they were unwillingng to launch an investigation. the university even put pressure on renee's parents, so she wouldn't go public. renee: my father said to me, come home and listen to your university, otherwise they'll expel you. i asked him, why should they expel me? i've done nothining wrong. he had no answer to that. he only repeated that i should listen to the university. reporter: renee's consultation with her attorney is sobering. there is no national legal framework for dealing with cases of sexual harassment in schools or the workplace. lu xiaiaoquan is onene of thew atattorneys whwho take on these types of cases. he explains to renee that there is no legal definition of sexual harassment. but he will help her file a lawsuit against the police who failed to help her at the time. the

so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the in. verse two which is important the largest community chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body. the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester. the president visited we knew it was. during his visit president. matters. not to say demonstrations. me finished like just material. right with. a stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chine

universe of me now today. thanks to repeat the recommendation systems those universes of us of me and you are the largest universes we ever had and they're also overlapping to a great extent. i think the effect of the filter bubble has yet to be quantified and i'm willing to render a hypothesis that when we get decent full assessment of the a fact of filter bubbles it will be different among different groups and different people how have social media platforms affected political discourse social media platforms have divided us have made a shallower you know the very addictive nature of it interferes with our ability to dive deep into one tax interferes with our ability to speak face to face in any depth. and perhaps to come to some sort of mutual awareness of the brain as you know it it does structure our habits and thoughts in ways that are not healthy for living life in a complex world and living in a democracy i think that the spread of junk news in this information and social media platforms as undermined truth in a sense if you're reading and learning about the world through facebook what you're getting is a

drew: it is about being part of the university over a long time, and living a life in a university where i came to realize the wonder of education and opening minds and contributing to the growth and flourishing of individual talent. and thinking about universities as places where people pursue truth, and challenge accepted wisdom, and devote themselves to learning and scholarship. so i had come to believe that universities are among the most important institutions in our society. i began to be invited to take on leadership roles and move from penn to harvard in 2001, to be the head of the institute for advanced study, which had just been made a part of harvard university, then from there, i went on to become president. emily: does being the first woman president part of it, the woman part of the equation, does it come with an extra pressure or sense of responsibility? drew: a lot of eyes were on me, and, "would i be able to do it?" and what would that say about women generally, not just could drew faust do this job, but could a woman do this job? i would just have young women in beaming

occupy wall street movement and one of the american citizens and research professors met with andrew ross professor at new york university the world's most expensive university. these activists goal was to fight the un bearable debt weighing on american citizens including the housing debt health debt and most importantly the student debt. the student debt problem in the united states to about one point three trillion in total and there are about forty million student debtors about eight million of those students are already in default meaning they're not paying out loans people can't imagine social goods or public goods in the united states it's unimaginable that you could have free education so there is a kind of normalizing of a of a i like to say kind of economic violence that people are used to and they just. expect that that's the way that is and that's the way it always will be the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education loans. they imposition of that has had the overall impact of stifling optional political imagination of students because they're so highly and and they have to think about their future in very particular