Thank you and a white house call to action for colleges. This should not be a democratic issue or a republican issue. A Bay Area University pledges to double the number of graduates in one key field. Now heres nbc bay areas jessica aguirre. Hello. Welcome to our class action education special. We begin with a provocative question. Can you get a Great College education without stepping foot in a classroom . A new school in San Francisco is promising just that. Now we first told but the minerva project recruited. You the founding class of freshmen is now enrolled at minerva. I dont remember which one of you said this. Reporter he is a 17yearold College Student from san diego who is debating his college classmates online. A very big advantage when they depend on them. Reporter when he applied to college, he got into selective schools like ucla, uc berkeley and nyu but he chose minerva. Based in San Francisco. I just want to win the opportunity to be part of the founding class and to cocre
A new school in San Francisco is promising just that. We first told you about minerva a year ago. The founding class of freshman is now enrolled. Reporter he is a 17yearold College Student from san diego who is debating his college classmates online. When he applied to college, he got into ucla, uc berkley, and nyu, but he chose minerva. I wanted to cocreate my experience. Its something im not going to find anywhere else. Reporter it is unique in many ways. Theres no campus. Most of the students in the first class come from overseas. The courses they took are entirely online. Most people would think this is really difficult to do, to be accustomed to having classes online. Im really engaged. Reporter in their second year, theyll move to a different city every semester. After that, the plan is to go to hong kong and mumbai. To understand the worlds biggest problems, we need to live in different cities and see the different problems people have and how they try to solve them. What we hav
Action for colleges. This should not be a democratic issue or a republican issue. A Bay Area University pledges to double the number of graduates in one key field. Now here is nbc bay areas jessica aguirre. Hello and welcome to our class action education special. Well begin tonight with a provocative question. Can you get a Great College education without stepping foot in a classroom . A new school in San Francisco is promising just that. Now, we first told you about the minerva project last year when the startup recruited investors and world renowned academics. Now they have recruited students too. The founding class of freshmen is now enrolled at minerva. I dont remember which one you have said this. Reporter a 17yearold College Student from san diego who is debating his college classmates online. Theyre going to have a very big advantage when they depend on them. Reporter when he applied to college he got into selective schools like ucla berkeley and nyu. But he chose minerva, a new
Cusp of an Energy Revolution. Putsob Energy Revolution energy front and center as a way to increase the economy, drive revenues to balance the budget. We know that we need to do that with smart policy and resisting the necessary regulations. We have a lot of efforts at the chamber. Our Regulatory Reform initiative. One thing that we do not talk about as often is the fact that we can produce a lot of energy in this country, but we have to be able to move it. Moving it is going to require a lot in transportation. Therating our panel today, chief economist for the American Petroleum institute. Bios for your speakers, i am going to assume that youre reading is done and i will share something with you that he shared with me before we started. John is a bit of a petroleum historian. He worked on a pipeline before he, as he said, gave up a honest living to become an economist. His other choice, by the way, was meteorologist. It works out well. On the other hand, you never know who is going to
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