The conservative political agenda. Then some of the middle east policy challenges. Also your phone calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook on twitter. Quotengton journal post every morning at 7 00 a. M. On cspan. The president and mrs. Obama participated in a recentlaying wreathlaying ceremony at Arlington National cemetery. This is 50 minutes. Halt. Present arms. [the starspangled banner plays] ladies and gentlemen, present arms. [drum roll] plays] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the invitation and the national anthem. The chaplain, national captioning will National Capital region, and the military district of washington, Major General geoffrey buchanan, military district of washington, executive director your Army National military cemetery, general martin dempsey, chairman, joint chiefs of staff, the honorable chuck hagel, secretary of defense. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. The chief ladies and gentlemen, the chaplain. Let us join toge
Second president elected to serve a full term in Office Without Party Control in either the senate or the house. That made progress, any progress, domestically, very difficult. Candidly speaking, my grandfather did not want to raise taxes in 1990, but our constitutional system of governance says Congress Also gets a say. Besides that, he felt he owed the American People action and results. Compromise is a dirty word in washington today because we live in an age of the perpetual campaign. Once we get back to realizing the importance of actual governance, i suspect this too will pass. My grandfather wishes to join you in recognizing mayor bridges and congratulating him for his much deserved recognition this year. We can all hope his example of standing on principle will inspire more elected officials on both sides of the aisle. Not lost on anyone i suspect is the symbolism of the grandson of a much admired president of the United States conferring a prestigious award that is being accept
And like us on facebook, to get debate schedules, video clips on key moments, debate previews from our politics team. Cspan has brought you over 100 house and governor ship debates. You can instantly share what the candidates are saying, stay involved and engage by following us on twitter and facebook. Up next a conversation with University Illinois urbanachampagne provost, he spoke about some of the challenging facing Higher Education including student debt and campus safety. This is part of a recent series on cspans washington journal. Last were here on the american journal, we kicked off a month long series with University President s as part of cspan busses big ten tour. Aboard the bus today is the provost. Let me begin with what you see as the top changeses for Higher Education. Well, good morning. Its nice welcome to everybody to our campus. To talk challenges for Higher Education for where we sit in the middle of the prairie in the United States is the issue of access and affo a
And the professor of strategic studies, so welcome tammy, and we have sarah shard, whos our second sarah panelist today and sarah is the author and contributing editor for the solitary watch website and shes a university a uc berkeley visiting scholar, so welcome and without further adieu, i will give it over to bob to start, each panelist will have about ten minutes to speak, and after that well go right into audience participation and questions. Again as a reminder, students will be invited to come and ask questions first. So bob, thanks so much. Thanks everybody for coming today, its great to be here, youre especially remarkable for coming to the topic which is not exactly easy to swallow, i think for most people. In fact, talk about euphemisms, it always sticks in my craw when we talk about dead innocent people. So lets try not to use that. So im certainly not going to use it in my presentation. Its hard for me to talk about this, because it it immediately becomes very personal for
Themselves in the world. Access and affordability. Because the cost of Higher Education has gone up over the last many years and now we have to figure out as a country, and as individual institutions how to make this affordable and accessible to young people, because education is transformational. Transformative experiences make a whole individual. Thats for citizens of every country, especially in a democratic environment. So how are you doing that then . How are you addressing this challenge of affordability and access . The university of illinois at urbana, champagne, tuition for instate is over 15,000, out of state is over 30,000, and room and board can come in at nearly 11,000. Yes, indeed. We are over the last many years, we are increased our effort in terms of Financial Aid. We have given over 70 million in Financial Aid. We have been going out to our friends and alumni trying to college bonds. Because the top reason, probably four or five regions, that students accept our invit