Bit of the institution to be able to maintain the excellence and teaching capability of our institutions. So, i main focus now is making sure that we raise funds for scholarship, for grants, and making sure that we bring your kids and my kids also to a Great Institution that prepares them for a lifelong learning, lifelong job and lifelong citizenship in a great country. Provost, here is a tweet from one of our viewers, lauren, who says Virtual Schools will be one tenth the cost. Well, Virtual Schools are great for people who are very interested in that. But i believe sincerely in the residential experience for students. Its not i mean, its not only bringing the students here to study, but bringing students here to socialize, to create networks, to make friends, to meet people from all over the world. If you stay in your bedroom, thats very difficult, very, very difficult to produce what i call a whole citizen. We believe we produce Online Education for people who are desirable of that
Bit differently this time. Well start with pat, pat, good morning. Im curious to know in your institution in burglar, and all institutions across the country, the ratio of people in the classrooms to other employees, by administrators, researchers, whatever. And how that has changed over time and what percentage of the tuition costs will be paid. Actually its to pay the salary of nonteaching employees of the university. So the university of michigan has about 3,000 fulltime tenure scre stream faculty that teach our students. We have clinical faculty that help train future physicians and residents and interns in our hospitals. We probably have on the order of 2,000 or so of teaching faculty. The total number of employees of the university is approaching 40,000. We have a very Large Health Care system, were a major provider of Health Health care in the state. If you put aside the Health Care System, we probably have two or three fold the number of employees providing all the Services Nec
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Critical to increase a little bit of the institution to be able to maintain the excellence and teaching capability of our institutions. So, i main focus now is making sure that we raise funds for scholarship, for grants, and making sure that we bring your kids and my kids also to a Great Institution that prepares them for a lifelong learning, lifelong job and lifelong citizenship in a great country. Provost, here is a tweet from one of our viewers, lauren, who says Virtual Schools will be one tenth the cost. Well, Virtual Schools are great for people who are very interested in that. But i believe sincerely in the residential experience for students. Its not i mean, its not only bringing the students here to study, but bringing students here to socialize, to create networks, to make friends, to meet people from all over the world. If you stay in your bedroom, thats very difficult, very, very difficult to produce what i call a whole citizen. We believe we produce Online Education for peo
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